HALLOWEEN: Best Candy For Halloween

What Should You Hand Out On Halloween? We’ve already weighed in on what we think is the best Halloween candy for those who enjoy the best. For trick-or-treat candy for kids, MSNBC has nominated the five best and five worst of the popular kids’ candies. Their evaluation was based on the saturated fat and sugar…
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Red Candy Apples History & Recipe

[1] Candy apples are a Halloween favorite (photo © Sevenmarie Creative Commons CC-BY-2.0). [2] Add some protein and decoration with chopped nuts or seeds (photo © M. Studio | Fotolia). [3] Instead of hobby store sticks, gather twigs (photo © Foodie Crush | Go Bold With Butter).   Yesterday we published a recipe for caramel…
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Homemade Caramel Apple Recipe & All The Apple Holidays

Here’s a different approach to caramel apples (also called toffee apples*): Use pretty twigs instead of the same old predictable wood popsicle/craft sticks. The recipe comes from the book Sugar, Sugar: Every Recipe Has a Story, by Kimberly “Momma” Reiner and Jenna Sanz-Agero. The book will be published on October 25th, but you can order…
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PRODUCT: Gourmet Dog Food

Pheasant, buffalo, duck, rabbit and venison…for dogs. Photo courtesy Evanger’s.   It’s National Roast Pheasant Day. What did we come across when doing some research? Canned pheasant for dogs! Evanger’s Grain Free 100% Pheasant Canned Dog Food is made with only one ingredient: pheasant, in some pheasant broth. The rich food is recommended as a…
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Start A Tradition With A Halloween Gingerbread House Kit & Gingerbread House History

Gingerbread houses have long been a popular Christmas tradition. But they may be more appropriate for Halloween. After all, they were inspired by the gingerbread house belonging to the wicked witch done in by Hansel and Gretel. Witches = Halloween.     THE HISTORY OF THE GINGERBREAD HOUSE At the end of the 11th century,…
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