Trick Or Treat Is Sneaking Up
While you might want to buy a bag of candy for the kiddies, offer your adult party guests something more interesting.
While you might want to buy a bag of candy for the kiddies, offer your adult party guests something more interesting.
We’ve talked about soup mixes, muffin mixes and spice blends. But for the winter, you might want to try something to make hot drinks.
If you start now, you can do a few each week and not be rushed.
If you’re looking for a little extra luck in a new year that includes more than a dozen Friday the Thirteenths, here are some ideas.
In Scotland, there’s a tradition of giving oat cakes to children on New Year’s Eve. This is the same land that gave us the traditional song “Auld Lang Syne.” This New Year tradition of the oat cake is called Hogmany.
You can use turkey just about anywhere you’d use chicken: pizza, pasta, stir fry and more.
Cornbread goes well with this holiday feast. Not only does it make great dressing, but it’s darn tasty all by itself with a little butter.
If you think soup in a jar is a little hokey, how about homemade liqueurs? Nothing hokey about that.
The European secret to surviving the feast is an after-dinner drink, called a digestif (pronounced die-jes-teef). These are liquors made to help settle an over-full tummy.
I won’t be cooking a turkey this year. Most likely, I’ll go with a chicken. But for those of you who will be doing a turkey, there are some things you might want to think about.