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Foods You Can Prepare before Thanksgiving
Cooking Thanksgiving dinner is a big endeavor, but you can take a lot of the stress out of the holiday by preparing some foods in advance. Take some time to go over your menu and determine which ones you can make ahead of time. [more…]
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Ten Tips for a Stress-Free Thanksgiving Dinner
Even the cook should get to enjoy Thanksgiving. Follow these tips to help take the stress out of getting ready to cook a Thanksgiving meal. [more…]
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How to Make Pumpkin Pie
Thanksgiving dinner isn’t complete without pumpkin pie. If you are on a budget, this might be the only desert you offer your Thanksgiving guests. The lightly spiced pumpkin pie presented here goes beautifully with many holiday meals. [more…]
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Deluxe Corn Bread Casserole
Deluxe corn bread casserole falls somewhere between really moist corn bread and a cheesy spoonbread. The casserole starts with a box mix, so you can make this side dish in no time flat. Kids and adults [more…]
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Holiday Decorating with Tablescapes
Tablescapes are arrangements of items gathered in a grouping on top of a table. They're sometimes called tabletop arrangements. Typically, you can use anything as a prop for a great miniarrangement — for [more…]
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Candy Making: Cooking Up Caramels
The joy of biting into a piece of candy with that rich caramel flavor is such a pleasure. How many people have gone through a box of chocolates, biting pieces trying to find that caramel center? Maybe [more…]
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Simple Solutions for Slow Cooker Dilemmas
Slow cookers are relatively easy to use. With no moving parts, they break or malfunction much less frequently than other appliances do. Nevertheless, things can go wrong, whether it's user error or operational [more…]
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Simple Side Dish: Scalloped Potatoes for a Crowd
Scalloped potatoes are standard side-dish fare, and we don't reinvent the wheel here, because the traditional dish is very tasty. However, this recipe yields enough for a crowd. [more…]
