This month I’m joining the Fantastical Food Fight for the Pecan Pie challenge. I will admit that I often find Pecan Pie to be too sweet, almost like candy. It can be hard to eat an entire slice. Given that, I decided to make Mini Pecan Pies, so that everyone could enjoy the flavor of …
Disney’s Pumpkin Soup is the third recipe in our Holiday Side Dish week comes from Epcot’s Sunshine Seasons restaurant in Walt Disney World. When we visited the Living with The Land attraction on our trip to Florida, we truly enjoyed seeing the greenhouses and learning about alternative ways to grow gardens. We even did the …
Disney’s Apple Butter is the first recipe in our Holiday Side Dish week. This recipe come from Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa. This is a great sauce for toast, scones, muffins or many other breakfast dishes. It would also make a great sauce for almost any meal, including a spread on sandwiches or a …
These sugar cookies are a family favorite! I’ve been making these cookies my entire life, starting with my mom and grandmother when I was very young. We’ve continued the tradition with our kids as well and I hope it’s a recipe they want to make with their children someday. We make these cookies many times …
My Cranberry Jelly is inspired by Williams Sonoma Jellied Cranberries (see image below). I was shopping and stopped by the store where they were sampling the jellied cranberries as well as a few other items and I really loved this one. I thought it would be amazing to be able to recreate this recipe at …
These Thanksgiving Sweet Potatoes recipe has been a family favorite since my kids were quite young. When my oldest was six years old, the school he attended held a potluck Thanksgiving and all the families brought a kid friendly dish to share. One of the families brought this sweet potato recipe. They opted not to …
Every year when the holiday’s roll around we make this Holiday Rice Pilaf for almost every meal. We traditionally serve this dish with Thanksgiving Dinner and Christmas Dinner but our family enjoys it so much and it is so easy to prepare, it will often be served at birthday’s and other family meals. The Holiday …
This month’s Food ‘n Flix Club Challenge movie was Planes, Trains and Automobiles. I have never seen this movie, even though I am an 80’s kid and watched many John Hughes films. This one did have a unique style, and maybe that is why I missed it in the past. It is a crazy adventure …
My Pomegranate Panna Cotta is inspired by Charlie Brown’s Thanksgiving. This is a wonderful holiday movie that I enjoy watching every year. In the movie, Charlie Brown hosts several friends who invited themselves over to his house for Thanksgiving dinner. Not knowing how to make a full Thanksgiving dinner, he enlisted the help of Linus …
