Thanksgiving Dinner Menu with an Italian Accent

Brie on baguettes Mixed Mediterranean olives Antipasta plate Garlic-herb rubbed Turkey roasted on onions and lemon Herbed bread and sausage stuffing Green beans with tarragon and caramelized onions Mashed Yukon Gold potatoes with chives Roasted parsnips, brussel sprouts and carrots with savory finishing sauce Cranberry ginger clove sauce Pumpkin pie with vanilla ice cream  

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MONDAY is a Six Letter Word

It’s a new year full of resolutions, expectations and I hope a new wave of participation from my readers in the weekly Six Word Memoir challenge.  I’m very pleased to have a few faithful contributors and would welcome many more!!! Think about your life in general, your dreams, wishes, past mistakes and best achievements.  Can [...]

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Six Word Memoir Monday

Image via Wikipedia Blame it on the snow storm (we’ll be using this excuse for at least another week), that’s why this blog is so late.  I only received  three responses this week (blame it on the holidays) and I am pleased to share them with everyone. Lucky me, my own Peter Pan – Heide [...]

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Oh No! Monday is here again – in Six Words

You would think I had a real office where I had to be in the office from 9 to 5 because that’s how this Monday feels.  I’m having weight depression again which means I don’t want to put on real clothes or go anywhere – definitely a Blue Monday! On the bright side I do [...]

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Count-Down To Christmas Dinner – Fennel and Orange Salad

Tasty Tidbits Tuesday I‘m sure you heard the news around Thanksgiving that 94% of all Americans having Thanksgiving Dinner had turkey as the main course.  Not so with Christmas!  It seems that besides turkey (yes some people replicate their Thanksgiving Day dinner one month later), roast beef, crown roast of pork, baked ham (spiral, pineapple [...]

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One Life Six Words What’s Yours?

Six Word Memoir The weekly challenge continues…can you describe yourself, your life, your passions, your goals in SIX WORDS?  No more, no less.  I certainly appreciate my readers who rise to this challenge and I love posting their Memoirs. We are unofficially participating in the SIX WORD PROJECT which originated with Smith Magazine.  The hook [...]

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Six Word Memoir Monday – Better Late Than Never

I’d like to think that it was the holiday weekend that caused the dearth of responses BUT since the responses invariably come in on Mondays when I post the prior week’s…..well Thanksgiving was on Thursday so who knows what happened??? My hubby enjoyed his birthday weekend – startingoveringermany Living with menopause,  forgot the question – [...]

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Count-Down to Thanksgiving Dinner-Stuffing the Bird

Or NOT – for the past few years I’ve opted to bake the stuffing separately and not in the bird.  When you have an empty cavity you can put onions and lemons inside, and you don’t have to get all gooey while trying to jam the stuffing in – and if you are using meat [...]

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Count-Down to Thanksgiving Dinner- Butternut Bisque

Things are beginning to look like Thanksgiving around my house.  Today Peter is setting up the large table top we attach to our small apartment-sized table and as of now, ingredients are beginning to populate the counters.  Had to check on how much granulated sugar I had and where or where is that damn Sherry [...]

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What’s the Most NON-TRADITIONAL Dish on Your Thanksgiving Dinner Table?

It’s time to get you guys more involved in what goes on here…I mean it’s hard sometimes for me to come up with the whole post, it’s holiday time, I have to plan, shop and cook, I have a job and that means I have to be at the office and also out showing apartments…and [...]

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