Each year at Christmastime, my kids and I make gingerbread houses out of graham crackers and frosting. This year I noticed that makers of  my favorite graham cracker had started making gingerbread crackers. I quickly bought a box and a bunch of small candies, nuts, and dried fruit (to decorate our little houses). We use [...]

I just got back from the Big-W, shopping for Christmas dinner. This year I decided to skip the whole turkey and go straight for the meat of the matter—the turkey breast. I plan to adapt a recipe I found online. Here we go … Ingredients 5 strips turkey bacon 1/2 tablespoons garlic powder 1 tablespoon [...]

If you’re from the Southern United States, chances are good you’ve eaten a biscuit with apple butter. A warm buttery biscuit slathered with apple butter is a fall tradition in my house. A few years ago someone gave me a jar of pumpkin butter for Christmas. Wow, what a heavenly gift. Ever since then I’ve [...]