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It’s time to get a head start on your Christmas baking. You will love these Christmas cookies you can make now and freeze. What a great feeling to have that task done well before the holiday season! These Santa-special treats can be in the freezer for up to three months. Make sure you wrap the cookies in plastic, stack in an airtight container, seal and freeze. Thaw wrapped cookies at room temperature before serving. These cookies are also perfect for a Christmas Cookie Exchange event. Here is the bonus…these cookies are easy to make! Everyone will think you spent hours and hours making these unique, delicious holiday cookies!      Courtesy of BHG
******************************* Christmas Cookies to make now and freeze! How easy is that?
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You’ve probably noticed it’s Winter Squash season! Your local grocery store most likely has a variety of squash on display in the produce section, but aside from “looking” seasonal and pretty, many people don’t know what the different varieties of squash are called, yet alone what they can be used for! Hint: they’re more than decoration! Here’s a handy, dandy crash course on Winter Squash, and their many uses. Carnival Squash This colorful variety is a hybrid of an acorn squash and a sweet dumpling squash. It’s perfect for soups and for roasting.  Delicata Squash This Winter squash is pale yellow with green stripes and has an edible skin. Try slicing it into half moons, tossing it in olive oil with salt and pepper and roasting it in the oven for a delicious Fall side dish!  Acorn Squash A smaller squash that varies in color from dark green to orange, with a ribbed rind and orange or yellow flesh. When halved for roasting, the acorn squash can act as a festive bowl for soups or fillings.  Here is the easiest way ever to cook Acorn Squash…in the crock pot! Harvest Acorn Squash Into the crock pot put cleaned, unpeeled squash. Add approximately 1/4 cup water. Cover and cook one hour on High, then change to Low for 6-8 hours. Split and scoop out seeds from cooked squash. Place melted butter, brown sugar, pepper and dash of cinnamon in cavity of squash. Yummy!! Butternut Squash It’s slim neck and round bottom gives this squash it’s distinctive shape. It has bright orange flesh and a fairly sweet and nutty flavor making it great roasted or as a soup. You can use a vegetable peeler to remove the skin.  Sugar Pumpkin It looks like a classic Halloween pumpkin, only a bit smaller. It actually has lots of flesh, and a great pumpkin flavor which makes it great for pie! Try using it instead of canned pumpkin the next time you make a pumpkin pie!  Spaghetti Squash Scraping a fork inside a roasted spaghetti squash will give you strings that closely resemble noodles! It’s mild flavor pairs well with a variety of sauces. It’s a great alternative to pasta! Jack Be Little This adorable little guy is actually best used for decorative purposes only. It has very little flesh, which doesn’t make it very practical to use in recipes, but they sure are cute and make great bowls for dip or soup!  Hubbard Squash Hubbard squash are a fairly large winter squash. They are slightly tear-shaped with dark green to pale grayish blue skins. Because of their size, they are often sold in pre-cut and seeded chunks which are more appealing to home cooks. Hubbards are sweet with a clear pumpkin flavor. Their extra-thick skins help them store through the winter (up to five months in a cool and dry place). A great way to prepare Hubbard squash is to roast them. They are good seasoned with rosemary and black pepper or roasted and then mashed with plenty of butter and warm spices like cumin or nutmeg.  Squash makes a great Fall or Winter meal or side dish. Pinterest is a great resource for recipes, so add squash to your shopping list soon and take advantage of the season!
For all the pumpkin lovers out there, we have three delicious Pumpkin Dessert Recipes for you! They can be used for casual or more formal occasions. They are sure to please everyone! Pumpkin Dessert Recipes: Pumpkin Lasagna This Pumpkin Lasagna is a take-off of the ever-popular meat/tomato sauce lasagna. This is a great way to prepare a delicious dessert for eight or more.  Ingredients For crust:
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Pumpkin Cheesecake Dip This Pumpkin Cheesecake Dip is scrumptious served with chocolate graham crackers and shortbread-type cookies. The combination of flavors is outstanding!  Ingredients
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No Bake Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies These No Bake Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies are divine and simply melt in your mouth! If you love pumpkin, this is your time of year…pumpkin everything!  Serves: 36 cookies
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Check out these Delicious Fall Soup Recipes: Soup Cool weather is around the corner, and nothing beats sitting down to a hot bowl of soup on a Fall day! We’ve gathered some delicious hearty fall soup recipes that will tickle your taste buds and warm your soul. According to Fiona Kirk, in her bestseller “Soup Can Make You Thin”, “The wealth of ingredients in a bowl of soup provides a good balance of carbohydrates, protein and fats as well as the vitamins and minerals required to create energy and keep us firing on all cylinders.” Just click on the links for the full recipes! Enjoy! 1. Creamy Chicken and Dumpling Soup        What are the top reasons that you should eat soup? Well, here we go: Soup is delicious. It can be a comfort food and is easy to make. With only a few ingredients, you can make a bowl of hearty soup for a cool evening. Soup is good for your health. Soup is an easy way to add vegetables to your daily meals. Healthy veggie soups are highly recommended. Soup can help you lose weight. Soups can be slimming. Depending on the type of soup, it can contain minimal, nutritious calories. Soup makes you feel full. Since soup fills you up, it’s ideal to eat at the beginning of every meal. Soup is affordable to make. Making soup doesn’t require a lot of money. Buy vegetables, fruits, and broth. For a small cost, you can make a lot of people feel full and healthy. Soup can make you feel better. Ever wondered by chicken soup is always given to the sick? It is because soup is great for people who are sick. It is easily digested and is filled with health benefits. These delicious fall soup recipes are sure to please! Related Fall Weather Recipe: Crock Pot Recipes This is perfect for football season…a football-shaped meatloaf! Use your favorite meatloaf recipe (or use the one below) and form it into a football shape with a nice ketchup-based sauce and cheese strips for the lacing. How yummy and fun is that? Your friends and family will be impressed with your creativity. This football-shaped meatloaf is sure to please the “foodies” in the group!  Football-shaped Meatloaf Recipe makes 8 servings 1 1/2 pounds ground beef 1 egg 1 onion, chopped 1 cup milk 1 cup dried bread crumbs salt and pepper to taste 2 tablespoons brown sugar 2 tablespoons prepared mustard 1/3 cup ketchup Directions 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). 2. In a large bowl, combine the beef, egg, onion, milk and bread OR cracker crumbs. Season with salt and pepper to taste and place in a lightly greased 5×9 inch loaf pan, OR form into a loaf and place in a lightly greased 9×13 inch baking dish. 3. In a separate small bowl, combine the brown sugar, mustard and ketchup. Mix well and pour over the meatloaf. 4. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 1 hour. 5. The finishing touch is cheese strips for the lacing. (A variation to this football-shaped meatloaf is to substitute some of the ground beef with ground turkey.) Source…
This Football-shaped Meatloaf is sure to please your party guests! In any season of the year, you will love these crock pot recipes. Colder weather calls for warm, home cooked meals, but they are also enjoyable in warmer weather because of the convenience! These are the days when your crock pot becomes your best friend! “Throw-all-the-ingredients-in-and-walk-away” is definitely my kind of recipe! We’ve gathered some of the best “comfort food” recipes for you to enjoy below! Just click on each title for the recipe. Enjoy! 1. Crock Pot Tater Tot Casserole       What a perfect way to show your patriotism…with patriotic pies. These are perfect for a patriotic holiday in the USA such as the 4th of July, 2020! They will, no doubt, be the hit of the party! Here are four favorites that will make your creative juices flow. Who knows, maybe you will tweak the recipes and create your own masterpiece! Old Glory Cherry & Blueberry Pie
Mini Patriotic Pies Flag-designed Masterpiece
Red Berry Pie Paired with Blueberry Pie – A Patriotic Slice of America
Here are five cake recipes to choose from that will be a hit on Easter Sunday! Growing up we always had cake for Easter dessert. Sometimes it was a layer cake and other times it was a bunny cake. 1) Easter Bunny Cake This is a favorite of mine and is easy to make. It is definitely a topic of conversation at the dinner table. It also makes a great centerpiece!  For recipe, Click Here 2) Easy-to-make Bunny Cake! Two layer cake rounds and a little cutting and shaping will make a Bunny Cake in no time!  For recipe, Click Here 3) Easter Egg Layered Cake This is such a pretty cake and is easy to make. Kids love the various colors of the layers and Mom’s love the simple, easy recipe.  For recipe, Click Here 4) Peeps® Easter Garden Cake What a fun cake for all ages…bunnies in the garden!  For recipe, Click Here 5) Tiramisu Layer Cake If you want a more traditional cake dessert, this easy version of the wonderful Tiramisu is a perfect choice for Easter dinner.  Enjoy Making and Eating these Cakes for Easter! Healthier Banana Bread Now, doesn’t this banana bread look scrumptious? And, the recipe has been modified to make it healthier. The amount of sugar has been reduced and applesauce has been used to replace some of the oil. Personally, I would use coconut oil instead of the vegetable oil. It is healthier! You can use coconut sugar in place of some of the brown sugar.  Ingredients
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Recipe Source… Tiramisu Layer Cake Italian dessert recipes aren’t that hard to make and especially this one. This is an easy version of the wonderful Tiramisu that is a favorite dessert for many. Using a box cake mix as a base makes it a real time saver and you still get the fancy taste without all the work! Let us know how you like this yummy Italian dessert!  Yield: 1 – 3 layer 9 inch cake Ingredients: CAKE:
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