My Contributions

Another successful Thanksgiving dinner at my parent's. This year I was in charge of the sweet potatoes and a dessert. Of course I brought two desserts. In my defense the first was more of a salad than a dessert (but it did have candy bar pieces in it.) I found the super easy apple salad recipe here.


I don't think this one needs much explaining. Apples=good, candy bars=good, pudding=good, and whipped topping=gooooood. So put all together and called a salad - I say good.
I also decided to go with something a little less traditional since I knew there would be a pumpkin and a pecan pie on the menu. I chose to make these oatmeal-cranberry-sour cream bars.

The only thing difficult about the bars was remembering the name when everyone asked me what they were called and if they could have the recipe. The sweet tanginess of the filling made them different than most others I have made. I will definitely be making these again.

I used the recipe photos from Taste of Home and Betty Crocker, respectively, because they both turned out exactly like the recipe photos. That's a first!

Happy Thanksgiving

Flowers or a Card?

When you cannot choose between flowers or a card here is an option.

An Apple A Day....or two or three or four

My husband's favorite fruit (and possibly food) is an apple. And when I was in a baking mood I searched for an apple recipe and I found this apple bread. I did not use the topping ingredients listed, but instead used a little brown sugar, flour and apple slices. I ended up baking the bread for 55 minutes. The smell of this bread baking took away my apprehension of trying a new recipe and there was no apprehension necessary. My husband devoured this bread. It was dense and hardy yet moist. We enjoyed it for breakfast with warm maple syrup.

Another Chocolate Covered Birthday

My dad is not a huge cake lover so I was hesitant to make a typical birthday cake for his big day. After a huge birthday meal I decided a light snack was all we would need. I remembered my husband's birthday and came up with the idea of inserting candles into marshmallows and covering them in chocolate. He got his candles and blew them out too.