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Palmiers are one of my favorite easy snacks. Although they are quite often sweet treats, I love to make them as savory appetizers. This recipe makes a great snack during the holidays, whether served with cocktails or as an appetizer to dinner.

Stuffing is one of my favorite parts of the Thanksgiving and Christmas meals. This is my favorite turkey stuffing recipe.

A number of years ago, my wife and I were dining in an upscale restaurant in the Seattle area near the Christmas Holiday where we enjoyed a succulent Christmas turkey dinner with all of the trimmings.

Every Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter with our families, one of our aunts or mothers (please don’t tell them we said this) struggles with the turkey gravy.  We can end up with anything from light brown flavorless water to lumpy turkey flavored pudding!  Each of them means well, and everyone in the family will always swear [...]

Like everyone these days, our lives are always hectic and as we get closer to the holidays, both Thanksgiving and Christmas, they seem even more so.  We feel that these holidays should be times to relax, and pretend that we don’t have a thousand things pressing upon us when we get back to our lives [...]

I have fond memories of Halloween in my childhood home. My sister and I would of course put on our costumes and go home-to-home proclaiming “Trick or Treat!” and collecting enough candy to thoroughly rot our teeth. Then we would return home to sit on the floor in front of the television still in our costumes and watch Disney’s animated version of Washington Irving’s, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.