Banana Apricot Nut Bread is one of those delightful vintage recipes that just makes the heart sing! This delicious sweet bread uses bananas, apricots, pecans and coconut. It makes three miniature loaves so it’s perfect for breakfast or brunch, but especially good for the holidays and fall baking.
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Continue ReadingPear Salad with Ginger Vinaigrette is absolutely mouthwatering. This wonderful salad includes pears, toasted pecans, Romano cheese, red onion and craisins. The Ginger Vinaigrette sets this amazing salad off so delectably. This gluten free salad is festive and beautiful enough for company but easy enough to make for every day.
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Continue ReadingApricot Nut Bread is sensational. This fantastic sweet bread includes apricots and walnuts. It’s particularly delicious served with cream cheese on top. Excellent for holiday parties and fall baking.
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Continue ReadingWhite and Sweet Potato Scramble with Fresh Herbs is incredibly mouthwatering and delicious. This tasty side dish is great with country-style, company or weekend breakfasts. It’s a marvelous side dish for any meat. This recipe is low calorie, healthy, gluten free and vegan.
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Continue ReadingTaffy Apple Salad will rock your world. Seriously! This lovely, fruity and fluffy salad is great for holiday entertaining or company dinners. It includes apples, crushed pineapple, peanuts and marshmallows in a tasty sauce that tastes like eating taffy apples. This is an absolutely wonderful salad to serve family and…
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Continue ReadingCarrot Casserole is an amazing side dish that’s superb for the holidays or company dinners. This recipe uses cheese and cream of celery soup to make a creamy sauce. Then the dish is sprinkled with Ritz cracker crumbs for added crunch and taste. Great way to get your kids to…
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Continue ReadingFabulous Panera Bread copycat recipe. This lovely salad is filled with dried cherries, pears, toasted pecans, grilled chicken or turkey and feta or gorgonzola cheese. Serve with Cherry Vinaigrette. Gluten free.
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Continue ReadingKentucky Derby Pie is so mouthwatering and delicious! This rich, decadent and amazing pie tastes like Toll House Cookies in pie form! Great as a company dessert and only takes a few minutes to prepare. If you enjoy Chocolate Chip Cookies, you’ll like them even better as a pie.
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Continue ReadingSpectacular and festive salad that bursts with color and flavor. This one uses dried blueberries, cranberries, toasted pecans, diced red onion and feta cheese over a bed of salad greens and spinach and is tossed with a lovely Maple Balsamic Vinaigrette. Perfect salad for company or holiday dinners like Easter,…
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Continue ReadingTips For Preparing Holiday Turkey will help you have a successful turkey dinner for your family without all the blood, sweat and tears of a first trial run. I thought I would write a post for those who are not used to cooking turkeys each year for thanksgiving to provide…
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Continue ReadingMy Mom’s Old-fashioned gravy recipe makes the best Turkey Gravy! It’s smooth yet delicately seasoned to provide some of the best tasting gravy you’ll ever eat. Perfect any time you serve turkey for the holidays!
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Continue ReadingCranberry Nut Swirls are so mouthwatering and irresistible. These fabulous Christmas cookies are made with a shortbread layer and a cranberry-orange zest-walnut layer swirled into the cookie. Great for holiday baking. But be warned: these cookies are so addictive you won’t be able to stop at just one!
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Continue ReadingCoconut Date Balls are festive, elegant and beautiful for Christmas Cookie Exchanges. This no-bake cookie is great for holiday entertaining. It contains dates, pecans and Rice Krispies and is rolled in coconut. We’ve made these delicious goodies for over four decades and they are still everyone’s favorites during the Christmas…
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Continue ReadingPecan Treats is a vintage recipe that we bake every year for the holidays. These fabulous miniature pecan pie-type treats are festive and beautiful but also rich, decadent and absolutely mouthwatering. If you enjoy Pecan Pie, you’ll love these bite-sized cookies.
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Continue ReadingDelicious old-fashioned stuffing recipe made with celery, onions and a lot of sage. This recipe uses homemade giblet broth. Use to stuff the cavities of the turkey or to cook in a separate casserole dish.