Did you make Christmas fudge this year?
I did!
Christmas fudge, chocolate fudge, peanut butter fudge, mint fudge…..  I could go on and on.  I love fudge!
Fudge is a holiday favorite.  Don’t let the thought of making fudge overwhelm you… it’s not that hard!  I’ve been making some fudge and wanted to share this easy fudge recipe [...]

I have a good friend who recently told me about a online meal planning program that she uses called Plan to Eat.  I was hesitant at first to add any more “things” to my plate, but after spending over 4 hours working on a meal plan recently, I decided I would look into the meal planning [...]

Fresh lemons……   I heart you! 
This year has brought about many changes in our family.  From me being a ninja attack woman on the laundry monster residing in my house……to bringing more nutritious foods into my kitchen…I’m enjoying the challenge of making changes. 
One of the changes I have made this year is drastically increasing the amount [...]

I poorly planned breakfast around here this week and this morning was left with the option of rice….or rice.  I sometimes make rice and serve it with milk, honey and cinnamon.  My dad introduced that concoction to me years ago.  My kids love it.   
So this morning, my two year old sat on the kitchen stool [...]

I finished up the deviled eggs a little while ago.  I could have made 6 dozen deviled eggs and I think we would eat them all before the day is up tomorrow.  We love deviled eggs around here! 
I decided to also make celery sticks with cream cheese filling since I have left over celery and [...]

I was raised on  Thanksgivings with cornbread dressing!!!!  My grandmother always makes cornbread dressing with just the perfect amount of sage and moistness. 
My two pans of cornbread dressing just came out of the oven and my camera is not working so I can’t take a picture for you.  I undercooked the pan we are having [...]

I’ve run into several bumps in the road…. first one, a very non-cooperative 2 year old boy who I just handed off to his dad….then missing the pumpkin puree for Martha’s cheesecake and several nursing breaks…and my camera is really having problems…….  I was going to make this:

Martha Stewart’s Pumpkin Cheesecake
However, I’m fresh out of pumpkin….so I’m [...]

Here’s what I did with my .38 cents a pound sweet potatoes I bought last week:  (Walmart had them on sale for .29 cents a pound too!)

We love sweet potato casserole!  I always make several of them for the days following Thanksgiving.  I use this recipe: 
Ingredients for Sweet Potato Casserole

4 cups sweet potato, cubed
1/4 cup sugar
2 [...]

Yummy Pumpkin Pies!  We just took them out of the oven and they look wonderful!  I made my pie crusts this year…the first batch turned out too dry and flaky so I added butter to the next batch and it turned out wonderful! 

I had two cans of pumpkin that I had from last years sales [...]

The cranberry sauce is finished!  I love homemade cranberry sauce.  Last year,  I bought several bags of cranberry’s for .25 cents a bag after the holidays.  I stuck them in my freezer and pulled them out this year to make cranberry sauce.  I just use the super simple recipe on the back of the package. 
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I bought a Hefty roaster pan and found that it also contained a pretty good size booklet of coupons.  It  has a .50 cent off coupon for Hefty pans.   Keep an eye out for it.  The coupons have longer expiration dates too and should be useful especially on some BOGO sales. 
Here’s a picture of it:

Because we don’t have anything else to do…. we thought we would blog some of our Thanksgiving Day preparations today while it pours down rain outside!  So here goes our Thanksgiving Bake and Blog……
We have a huge list of items to make today:

Pumpkin Pies
Sweet Potato Pie/Casserole
Cranberry Sauce
Cornbread Dressing
Mashed Potatoes
Deviled Eggs

We have a bunch of other [...]

We love crepes!  Crepes make breakfast all the more wonderful!  We make crepes several times each month, sometimes once a week and I don’t think I’ve made them the same way twice. 
You can top crepes with most any type of fruit topping.  I usually use frozen fruit, like strawberries, add a little water and sweetener and let them boil into [...]

I’m slowing quite a bit in this last 6 weeks of pregnancy.  I have a few, actually a lot, of household goals this month that I still am wanting to get accomplished before the baby comes as well as getting my pantry stocked a bit more this month.  So I’m taking some time off from blogging over the next month [...]