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313The best of two favorite cookies, baked into a brownie. This recipe is adapted from Martha Stewart’s Christmas Cookbook. Featured as a "holiday treat" on the popular food blog One for the Table www.oneforthetable.com
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314These muffins are a great alternative to pumpkin. You can use cinnamon and nutmeg in place of the spices, but I think allspice and cloves give them a unique flavor. I usually make extra sweet potato for dinner and then make these muffins the next morning.
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315This is a fast and easy dish to prepare and it’s so delicious. The creamy mustard sauce is great on any fish fillet – red snapper, tilapia, grouper. It's one of the recipes featured in Ina Garten's new cookbook "Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics " - http://b…
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316A post Thanksgiving favorite! Tetrazzini is also great with leftover chicken.
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317Do not thaw the peas before adding them to the skillet. Save time by prepping other ingredients a couple of hours before and keep in a plastic wrapped dish. Then throw it all together just before dinner
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318This recipe is combination of technique and ingredients from Cook’s Illustrated and Joy of Cooking, which I suppose now makes it my own. There are tons of recipes with exotic flavors and ingredients, but if you’re looking for that classic Thanksgiving stuff…
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319This stock has incredible flavor and can be made ahead to save time at Thanksgiving. It’s the base for perfect turkey gravy, and can also be used in your favorite dressing recipe. To roast the trimmings and vegetables, it’s best to use a roasting pan that c…
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320This is a great alternative to marshmallow topped sweet potatoes. Cutting the sweet potatoes into slices of even thickness is important in getting them to cook at the same rate. A potato masher will yield slightly lumpy sweet potatoes; a food mill will make…
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321There are so many variations for cranberry sauce – experiment with a few until you find a favorite – this is one of mine. The maple syrup gives a more mellow sweetness than granulated sugar. If you've got frozen cranberries, do not defrost them before use;…
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323These are one of the simplest and most basic rolled cookies - but so delicious. They’re buttery and sweet, with crisp edges and chewy centers.
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324These muffins are based on the famous southern Hummingbird Cake – made with banana, pineapples, and coconut. Food historians generally cite Mrs. L.H. Wiggin's recipe published in the February 1978 issue of Southern Living magazine as the first printed refer…
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326I’ve been making this cheesecake at Thanksgiving for years and it’s always a crowd pleaser. The Whipped cream topping is particularly good with the pumpkin spices; the addition of sour cream gives it a crème fraiche quality.
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327These brownies were popular when I was growing up and I saw them being made recently on an episode of Cook’s Country and thought I would give them a try. They were a BIG hit! Toasting the pecans is crucial to the brownie flavor. Using the aluminum foil lini…
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328This is a quick dessert that’s perfect for two people. Use your favorite apples, I like to use a combo of Granny Smith with Cortland, Macoun, Empire, Macs, or Rome
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329This is a delicious moist, dark, spicy pumpkin bread. It’s perfect on its own, or you can make “sandwiches” with cream cheese and thinly sliced apples. The cornmeal gives the bread a great texture.
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330A great fall dish - serve this with a baked sweet potatoes and green peas. Dried cranberries or chopped dried apricots can be substituted for the cherries.
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331Biscuits and gravy is a popular breakfast dish in the South. It consists of buttermilk biscuits covered in thick "country" or "white" gravy made from the drippings of cooked pork sausage, white flour, milk, and often bits of real sausage, bacon, ground beef…
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332333This is quick and tasty weeknight meal that comes together quickly. Make sure to use a non stick skillet with a tight fitting lid.
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335This is a very easy dessert and is made even easier with ready to use Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry. Use a cast iron skillet to ensure that butter and sugar caramelize.
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336One of my favorite mashed potato recipes - great with Glazed Turkey Meatloaf - http://tinyurl.com/yljneph
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