Tag: "Thanksgiving"

Thanks to Quality Friends & Quality Ingredients
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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
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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
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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
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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 [...]