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Baking Up a Storm

Baking Up a Storm

The recipes for the carrot cake, cherry pie, and strawberry-rhubarb pie for the weekend's dessert auction are available here.Last weekend’s kitchen time was spent baking up a storm for the Wonderfully Made Family Camp dessert auction fundraiser.  From the top clockwise are the desserts I contributed: carrot cake, cherry pie, cherry pie, and strawberry-rhubarb pie.

Between baking, setting up for the fundraiser, and enjoying the evening there wasn’t time for testing new recipes. So here are recipes for the goodies that sold for ridiculous prices at Saturday night’s big event.

  1. Non-Dairy Carrot Cake with Cream “Cheese” Frostingcarrot cake
  2. Cherry Pie cherry pie
  3. Strawberry-Rhubarb PieStrawberry-Rhubarb Pie

My favorite of the three is cherry. Yours?

 

Three Thoughts for Thursday

Three Thoughts for Thursday

cherry pie

  1. For those of you concerned about the upcoming choca-pocalypse, there is hope. If–and this is a big if–all of us band together to implement the chocolate conservation practices outlined in this article. Are you with me on this?
  2. Nearly lost in translation: “Uh-oh, spaghetti-oes.” Or as my grandson says, “Uh-oh, Betty goes.”
  3. Thanksgiving food that’s got me salivating already: A tie between tapioca fruit salad and cherry pie. You?
Three After Christmas Thoughts for Thursday

Three After Christmas Thoughts for Thursday

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  1. Once again, yesterday’s second piece of cherry pie may have been too much.
  2. Our tradition of watching The Lord of the Rings trilogy during the holidays is alive and well. As is my conviction that filling Suraman’s fighting Urak hai cast of thousands was a financial boon to professional football players, WWF wrestlers, and beefy athletes everywhere.
  3. I’m trying to decide whether to take down the tree and Christmas decorations today or wait until New Year’s.

How long do your decorations stay up?

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What Are Your Thanksgiving Faves?

What Are Your Thanksgiving Faves?

Great-aunts Gladys and Ginny with Gladys’ daughter, Darlene

Thanksgiving’s this Thursday, and my mind keeps wandering to the holiday. Rather than fight the feeling, I’m going with it and making a list of Thanksgiving faves. Here goes.

  1. Favorite Thanksgiving childhood memory: Spending the day playing with my cousins and conspiring with them about how to persuade our parents to let us stay overnight together.
  2. Favorite Thanksgiving adult memory: The year Great-uncle Burnell (suffering from Alzheimer’s), his wife Ginny, and sister-in-law Gladys (both in their 90s) came for dinner. Burnell kept saying he had such a good time he wanted to give me a six million dollar bill. Ginny and Gladys argued about who spilled crumbs and couldn’t get over how well the paper napkins matched the linen tablecloth.
  3. Favorite Thanksgiving trip: Driving from Camp Crook to Le Mars during our South Dakota days. Every time we drove into a snowstorm between Mitchell and Sioux Falls.
  4. Favorite aroma: Waking up to the smell of the onions and celery sauteing in butter for the stuffing Mom was making.
  5. Favorite appetizer: Mom’s Franklin Chex Mix
  6. Favorite food: Mashed potatoes and gravy
  7. Favorite pie: Cherry
  8. Favorite tradition: Playing Catch Phrase with the fam

Okay, now it’s your turn. What’s on your list of Thanksgiving faves? Give into the feeling and leave a comment!