Thanksgiving reflections

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Follow my blog with Bloglovin Ok so I’m a little delayed on my post-turkey post. But let’s get serious, if you’re anything like me you are just now starting to feel like a normal human again after a serious bout with tryptophan. Just me? Ok, then. I love Thanksgiving. I would tell you it’s my […]

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Gobble, Gobble

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OMG it’s Thanksgiving week y’all! I know. I can hardly believe it either. I can hardly believe it because we’ve been experiencing full-on Christmastime weather here in Chicago. Saturday was the annual Magnificent Mile Lights Festival, complete with 14 degree wind chills and boughs of frozen holly. As a staunch no Christmas cheer before Thanksgiving is […]

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Pumpkin Cheesecake Crumble…

> Have I mentioned previously that I love pumpkin?  I used this recipe from Bon Appetite for our Halloween Dinner Club a few weeks back and it was a hit. Faced with making a dish suitable for toting to multiple Thanksgiving dinners miles apart, I decided to go with this make-ahead recipe. NOTE: While flavor […]

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Cranberry Oatmeal Bars…

> For the past few years, my friends and I have a Thanksgiving dinner together prior to the holiday. Since Thanksgiving is usually a time spent with family, the early scheduling of our dinner allows us to not only share a holiday with close friends, but it allows us to experiment with dishes that we […]

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>Thanksgiving Turkey Treats…

> So I realize I’ve been promoting the Our Best Bites blog a lot lately, but they keep inspiring me with their adorably cute holiday treats. I have yet to blog about my successful Halloween-themed treats based on my previous post, but these were too cute not to share. Gobble, gobble folks. Thanksgiving is right […]

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