Well T-Day is here. I made all the sweet potato and pumpkin pies yesterday, the only challenge coming from the gluten free pie crust mix. I used The Gluten-Free Pantry’s Perfect Pie Crust Mix, which makes two pie crusts. Unfortunately, the crust was too dry even with 12 tablespoons of butter (!) and a little [...]
From the monthly archives:
November 2008
The gluten free, no eggs, no nuts, no soy Thanksgiving
Food Blog of the Week – Gluten Free Goddess
Thanksgiving side dishes with a little help from BlogHer and my crockpot
Thanksgiving pie recipes for a healthy sweet potato pie and traditional, not so healthy pumpkin pieHere’s another Thanksgiving holiday recipe from Jonny Bowden’s Healthiest Meals on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What Meals to Eat and Why. Since my daughter is allergic to tree nuts and my mother-in-law is on a gluten-free diet, I’ll be using a GF pie crust mix instead of making the almond-oat crust. I’ll also [...]
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Final contenders – a healthier pumpkin pie?
Our first contender, Kahlua Pumpkin PieDave Grotto’s book 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life features this recipe by Chef Kyle Shadix, a Culinary Institute of America graduate who has an M.S. in nutrition. Pomegranate-Cranberry Sauce Recent studies link pomegranate juice to lower LDL (“bad”) cholesterol and blood pressure. Ingredients: 2 cups (or 16 fluid ounces) 100% pomegranate juice 1 [...]
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My complete Thanksgiving meal (dieters beware)
LHJ’s Roasted Vegetable Lasagna
Roasted veggiesMaybe you want to smoke your turkey this year but you don’t want to go out and buy a smoker and can’t find one to borrow. Or maybe you think it’s just too darn cold to cook outside this time of year. This is where Mindy Merrell and R.B. Quinn, authors of the book, Cheater [...]
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Win a Butterball turkey for Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Bon Appetit
Extreme Fat Smash Turkey TacosThis year I’m making Dr. Bowden’s Citrus-Stuffed Herbed Turkey, but we’ll be smoking it. We smoked our turkey last year using Alton Brown’s Honey Brined Smoked Turkey recipe. It was the best turkey I’ve ever made according to my husband, and I’ve made some fancy Thanksgiving turkeys over the years. (The stock I made from [...]
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Have a healthy, lean Thanksgiving – some tips from the food and diet experts
Christmas grillingWell, I thought my Thanksgiving menu was set. Then I opened up the latest enewsletter from BlogHer and I saw this post from my friend, Kalyn of Kalyn’s Kitchen, Make-Ahead or Crockpot Recipes Can Help with Timing for Thanksgiving Dinner. Thanksgiving dishes in the crockpot. Oh joy, something I haven’t done before! Many of the [...]
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Christmas side dishesStaying Healthy on a Budget Here’s some great tips on saving money while getting healthy: Brandi shares with us a great article on 10 Ways to Diet on a Budget. Susan helps the parents among us learn how to talk to our kids about a tight budget. Jacqueline offers us the Secrets of Budgeting for [...]
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5 ways to stay lean and green this St. Patrick’s DayWhat a bunch of turkeys – not! Here are the winners in my Win a Butterball turkey for Thanksgiving contest: Shannon of Charming Bitch Jen S. Yvonne of The Low Carb Band-It Kimberly of Cooking with Kimberly Deborah W. Speaking of Thanksgiving, I’ll be posting my Thanksgiving menu here in the upcoming days. (Click here [...]
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More and more parents are looking for organic prepackaged snacks and juice boxes. And companies like R.W. Knudsen are listening. They now offer parents a great alternative to traditional juice boxes, R.W. Knudsen Family’s Sensible Sippers . And this is not just organic juice in a box featuring a cartoon character – in this case [...]
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Anthocyanins, R.W. Knudsen’s Just Juice, and a recipe for black currant jelly
What’s so great about Noni Juice?
Goji Berry Juice – another way to get your anitoxidantsNovember is American Diabetes Month, a time to bring even greater awareness and attention to the seriousness of diabetes, its deadly complications, and the importance of proper diabetes control. As I learned at the Quaker Oats Living Proof event, having diabetes can lead to heart disease as well as stroke, kidney disease, blindness and amputations. [...]
Cool a fever with a healthy frozen popsicle treat: green apple and flax seed pops
Mashed potatoes with blue cheese and port wine gravy with mushrooms
Frozen strawberry margarita pie
