Baked Pumpkin Soup  This is not a quick dinner to make just before trick or treating, you may want to start the day before, or just make this meal to celebrate the coming of fall.  I planted some sugar pie pumpkins in  my garden this year.  They are quite small , approx. 6 – 8 inches, and make the perfect soup bowl! This would work in one large pumpkin just as well.  The soup  is cooked on top...

One week until Easter, and I’m in a holiday mood!  It’s in my blood, flower cookies, bunny cookies, chocolate Easter eggs and other delicious treats.  My inspiration comes from a twenty year old set of candy molds for animals, Easter eggs and bunnies.  I remember buying the molds at a home candy making party.  I haven’t heard of such parties for years, but after checking the imprint on...

This cookie recipe has been a favorite of my husbands for as long as he can remember.  The recipe originally came from his mother.  She saw it on the back of a sugar sack, cut it out and pasted it onto a 3 x 5 card.  When we got married she gave the card to me.  How could a new bride not have the favorite cookie recipe of her husband?  One must cook to impress you know!! Years have gone by and the recipe...

This shortbread cookie recipe is one of our favorites for Christmas! NUT SHORTBREAD COOKIES 1 cup soft butter                                                     2 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour 1/2 cup sugar                                                          1/2 cup chopped nuts  1/8t. salt Mix...

Stories Behind the Best Loved Songs of Christmas, by Ace Collins Every song has a story, Christmas songs have fascinating stories about how they came to be.  Most of us know the story behind Silent Night,It was 1817 in Austria,  the organ at St. Nicholas Church in Oberndorf, wasn’t working on Christmas eve, Joseph Mohr , the assistant priest had to do something to save the Christmas Eve service. ...

I LOVE THIS WEBSITE!  All recipes . com is a great resource for all of us stuck in the kitchen this Thanksgiving week!  Personally, I like being in the kitchen, so the adjective “stuck” should be changed to “creating”!  All recipes has innumerable recipes posted by cooks all over the world.  It is organized, just type in a recipe you are looking for in the search box and a choice...

This will be the first post of several recipes my family always requests at Thanksgiving.  The most requested is STUFFING.  Thirty one years ago, the day before Thankgsgiving, my husband and I were married.  I didn’t understand why my mother didn’t like the date we picked and kept trying to get us to pick another date. Now, from my different perspective as the “Thanksgiving Cook”,...

Halloween is a very fun holiday, it doesn’t have to be scary!  Here are a few hints for Halloween to help make it fun for the whole family!!! ICE CREAM WITCHES – Use a ball of ice cream for the head.  Turn a sugar cone upside down for the witch’s hat.  Decorate using chocolate chips for eyes, candy corn for a nose, raisins for a mouth, orange coconut for hair. (place coconut in plastic bag...