These make-ahead Maple Pumpkin Pots de Crème have an amazingly silky smooth texture. Each delicious bite is bursting with warm-spiced flavor - a beautiful, gourmet alternative to pie! I love serving these Maple Pumpkin Pots de Crème for dinner parties, as all the work can be done a day or two ahead. All I do the day of the party is dollop them with a scoop of whip cream and perhaps a few toasted ...
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8 Easy, Holiday Worthy Desserts
Eight holiday-worthy desserts, perfect for your Thanksgiving table! These easy recipes can all be made ahead, allowing you to enjoy the holiday. Does your family like traditional desserts for Thanksgiving or do you tend to switch it up? We love a mix of both around here. These recipes are full of the flavors of Thanksgiving and would be a great addition to your holiday table or fall dinner ...
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Ridiculously Easy Orange Cranberry Scones
These Easy Orange Cranberry Scones are melt-in-your-mouth delicious and can be made ahead. Pop them in the oven just before serving, for easy entertaining! I've been anxiously waiting for oranges and cranberries to appear at the market. I had the idea a while ago for a recipe for some easy orange cranberry scones and couldn't wait to try it out. I knew they would be easy and delicious because I ...
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Rosemary Honey Glazed Carrots
These Honey Glazed Carrots with fresh rosemary don't take long to make and they're so delicious, they disappear like candy! That's a warning to make plenty! I've been making versions of these honey glazed carrots for almost as long as I can remember. I believe the original recipe came from a Fine Cooking magazine but I've changed it up a lot over the years, to the point that the fine folks at ...
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Homemade Chicken Pasta Soup
This delicious Homemade Chicken Pasta Soup tastes like you spent all day in the kitchen, but in reality, you can put it together, start to finish in less than an hour! It's also fabulous with leftover turkey! Do you recall, the famous quote from Romeo and Juliet, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"? This chicken pasta soup probably should have been called "Long Lost Chicken Soup" or ...
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Cranberry Clementine Arugula Salad
This Cranberry Clementine Arugula Salad also includes butter-toasted pecans, candied bacon, ruby-red pomegranate seeds and a delicious Honey-Cider Poppy Seed Dressing. It makes a beautiful side for a dinner party and a fabulous whole meal salad with rotisserie or grilled chicken, shrimp, steak... If you've got some entertaining coming up or you just want to make life a little healthier and more ...
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Make-Ahead Bread Recipes for Holiday Entertaining
Eight easy and delicious bread recipes, perfect for your holiday celebrations. The best part is they can be frozen, thawed and then warmed in the oven on the big day! The best way we know to simplify holiday entertaining is to make everything you can ahead of time. There will always be last-minute things that need your attention. But just think how happy you'll be to pull warm, homemade bread out ...
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Easy Thanksgiving Shortbread Cookies
These one-bowl, no-mixer Thanksgiving Shortbread Cookies are crisp, buttery and super delicious! They're perfect for snacks, gifts and entertaining. Each one is a work of art! Are you getting in the Thanksgiving frame of mind yet? If you live here in the U.S., you probably realize that the holidays, starting with Thanksgiving, are rapidly approaching. That means all kinds of planning, cooking, ...
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Maple Mustard Candied Bacon
You're going to flip with the first taste of this Maple Mustard Candied Bacon! It's smoky, sweet, salty, savory, crispy and ridiculously delicious! It's fabulous as a topping on salads, soups, burgers, pizzas, etc. and makes an amazing addition to a cheeseboard! Last week our son, Nick and his family came for dinner one evening. I was serving pork tenderloin with a Clementine Cranberry Arugula ...
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Make-Ahead Holiday Sides
Ten of our favorite side dishes, perfect for your holiday table! They can all be made-ahead allowing you to enjoy your family and friends. It's hard to believe November is already here. Now that the calendar has flipped it feels like it's time to start thinking about Thanksgiving and the holidays! We're working on some new side dish ideas for this year, but in the meantime, these are some of our ...
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Ridiculously Easy Sticky Toffee Pudding
An unbelievably easy, actually, ridiculously easy sticky toffee pudding recipe that makes its own sauce! It sounds crazy, but this recipe creates a light, delicious cake with its own buttery, rich toffee sauce right underneath! Anytime Scott and I are out for dinner and there's a dessert option for Sticky Toffee Pudding, we never have to think twice. And after enjoying sticky toffee pudding all ...
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Easy Balsamic Fig Jam (from dried figs)
If you can cut up some dried figs and add sugar, balsamic vinegar, water and lemon juice then bring it all to a boil, you can make this delicious balsamic fig jam! That's all there is to it! And check out the post (below) for a zillion ways to use it! Want holiday entertaining to be a breeze this year? We're sharing the perfect way to get that started. Make a batch of this easy (super easy) ...
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