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Holiday Recipe Planning — Start Today

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Holiday planning begins with holiday foods. Time to get out your recipes and inventory your cupboards. 
There’s nothing worse than starting to make a delicious pie only to discover a key spice is missing or that an ingredient has expired. 

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Plan you next shopping trip to include your holiday food preparations.
What will you need?
Start with a basic menu idea for your winter holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chanukah, New Year’s Eve or Day. Especially when it comes to baking, it’s never too early to stock the shelves with the ingredients you’ll need.  

Here are some key areas to consider:
Baking supplies:  flour, sugars (granulated, brown and confectioner’s), baking soda, baking powder, baking chocolate, decorating supplies, yeast, flavorings, nuts, dried fruit, pie crust, pie filling, shortening, evaporated milk.
Stuffing ingredients: stuffing mix or Matzo, poultry seasoning, celery, onion, chicken broth. (Matzo can make the best stuffing ever. Try it!)
Spices: onion flakes, poultry seasoning, pumpkin pie spice, nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, all-spice, pepper, salt.
Miscellaneous: this can be about anything you may need but I would include an emergency supply of butter, eggs chicken broth and cream of chicken soup. (Cream of chicken soup with drippings or chicken broth makes a nice gravy in a pinch.)

And don’t forget the Roaster Pan! If you do not own one and prefer to buy a disposable one at the store, they can go quickly. Get it now.

Here is a FREE PRINTABLE Holiday Grocery Shopping List for you to use. Feel free to share it with family and friends.



Looking for some new recipes this holiday season? 
Check these out!

  • Hot Water Pie Crust and Chiffon Pumpkin Pie
  • Libby’s Famous Pumpkin Pie
  • Pumpkin Pie Paradise–10 Pumpkin Pie Creations
  • Pumpkin Bread
  • Best Thanksgiving Stuffing Recipe Ever
  • Twice Baked Potatoes
  • Chocolate Cheesecake Recipe

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Filed Under: Food, holiday, Social Media, Uncategorized Tagged With: birthday planning, Chanukah, Thanksgiving

Get Ready for Birthdays

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Seems like everywhere I look these days there are BIRTHDAY posts online.
Getting ready for birthdays is fun but can be an organizing challenge all its own.
We love to celebrate our loved ones’ big days –birthdays, graduations, weddings, baby showers, etc.– but, am I the only one who feels like I wish I could re-arrange them on the calendar a bit?
Some families, such as my own, have them loaded up all in the same months.  May and December have been biggies for the Pies Family! Four in May plus Mother’s Day. Six birthdays in December plus Hannukah and Christmas!  Yikes!

Anyhow, here are a few fun links to make Birthday planning easier…or, at least, much more fun!
12 Spring Birthday Cakes   Free Birthday Cards    Gift Ideas 
Birthday Binders      Famous Birthdays     Free Printable Cupcake Toppers

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Uncategorized Tagged With: birthday cakes, birthday cards, birthday planning, birthdays, celebrations, graduation, weddings

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