Tag: Thanksgiving
Reason for the Season
I know that usually I post about recipes or dishes that I love and want to share, but was motivated to write about friends – those people that make you feel at loved, no matter where you are or how long it’s been since you’ve seen each other. My husband was a Marine and as [...]
I’m a Snob: Organic Breakfasts of Champions
Now that Thanksgiving is over and I’m at least 8 pounds heavier, it’s time to…keep eating. One of the best parts of the holidays is the mornings after…and the hearty breakfasts that will last you through the morning without stuffing you like the turkey did. The mornings after the football games (did you see the [...]
Top 5 Kitchen Items Most Thankful For
Hello Dearest Readers, For your reading pleasure, I have compiled a very short list, from least to most critical, of the top 5 kitchen items most valuable to me and my cooking. Sending you Zomppa Love!!! XXXXXXOOOOOO 5. Kitchen Aid This beautiful hunk of metal is almost 6 years old, but still efficiently kneads bread [...]
TidBit of the Day: A Perspective on Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving! When I was in school, we made pilgrim hats and “feather’ headdresses. I did not have information like this from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian about American Indian perspectives on this holiday. Check it out.
Thanks to Quality Friends & Quality Ingredients
Thanks to all who have shared your Thanksgiving meals! Now that it’s over and I have successfully gained several pounds, I thought I would share with my little Thanksgiving and how grateful I am not only for good friends, but also for companies that make quality ingredients free from hydrogenated oils and industrial processing. Cake [...]
Give Thanks, To Fat Calories: Thyme and Parmesan Popovers
I luuurrrvvee buttermilk biscuits. But this year? At this year’s Thanksgiving meal, we’ll welcome a new carbohydrate to the table. A baked-to-a-golden-brown pancake, anyone? We’ll be eating these beauties. Thyme-Parmesan Popovers. I considered altering this recipe to reduce the fat content, but then I changed my mind. Why? Thanksgiving comes once a year and sometimes? [...]
The Indian in the Cupboard
How many of you remembering making those “Indian headdresses” and “Pilgrim hats” out of construction paper to celebrate the “first” Thanksgiving? It seemed rather simple. A project that taught us how all the Indians and the Pilgrims got together and became friends. That was history. Pilgrims are history. Indians are history. What little kids often [...]
Don’t Poison Your Thanksgiving Dinner Guests
So when I moved to DC, I gathered 19 of my friends and acquaintances without Thanksgiving plans to my little apartment and we ate like there was no tomorrow. Some were old friends, one was a new one I had picked up on the Greyhound bus a week before (I’m not kidding–he ended dating a [...]
