Tasty Pecan Recipes

Thanksgiving Thursday was a lovely day.

I know you're not suppose to try new recipes for company. So, WHATEVER, I decided to anyway. We go to my cousin's house for Thanksgiving and I just take a couple different things. Country Living Magazine had some wonderful looking recipes in their November issue. I have never made a pecan pie before, but their Chocolate Chunk Pecan Pie was so enticing. It did not disappoint! FABULOUS!  

I also made their Roasted Sweet Potato Casserole with Pecan Streusel.  What's with all the pecans?  I have no idea.  I almost took a green salad with sugared pecans, but ran out of time and thought better of it.  Back to my point, the sweet potatoes were also AWESOME!

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Sorry, no good pictures of the feast.  I was busy eating.

 But the young-uns burned off a few calories afterwards.

While us old-uns sat and watched.  I had very high heels on, so there, that's my excuse. I hope your day was lovely too. There's so much to be thankful for, isn't there?

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Have a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends! 

God Bless!

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Thanksgiving Preparations

Good morning. Sorry for the lack of posts here. I have a couple of things I'm working on, but am just not ready to show you yet. 

Next week is Thanksgiving and I see all the beautiful posts about preparing for company. My family heads out to my cousin's home that's not too far away.  It's a wonderful day full of laughter, good food and good memories. I'm not saying I want to host the celebration, thank you very much! However, I miss some of the preparation. I still end up cooking some of the traditional meal for "leftovers", but I miss the beautiful table settings. So, I'm enjoying what others are doing and thought I'd share with you.  

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

We hope you each have wonderful moments with your loved ones today and if they're far away send hugs their way.

Gobble Gobble

This is how you make Thanksgiving Turkeys. You need all these ingredients, plus stiff chocolate frosting. You start with a shortbread cookie or ginger snap on the bottom. You put a Marshmallow cookie on it's end with stiff chocolate frosting.

His head is a chocolate kiss. The waddle is a red hot.

Usually we use candy corn for the feathers, but I didn't buy them early enough this year. I improvised with pecans. I think they work nicely.

This could look neater with frosting from a tip, but this is a kid project. All that matters is the fun and the tasting. My big kids still like to do this.