Category: Holidays & Occasions

CHANUKAH: Build A Cookie Chanukah House

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Manischewitz’s Chanukah House Kit. Photo courtesy Manischewitz.   For centuries, many children have celebrated Christmas by decorating a gingerbread house. While there’s nothing religious about it, it is a Christian tradition. Now, Jewish children have their own holiday house: a vanilla cookie house called—wait for it—Chanukah House. The Manischewitz Chanukah House Decorating Kit includes everything…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Get Help From A Box

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Pacific Organic’s four Thanksgiving helpers. Photo by Elvira Kalviste | THE NIBBLE.   Even if you’re a committed from-scratch cook, it can make sense to use some premade foods for a complex meal like Thanksgiving. We test-drove these four organic products from the Pacific organic foods line (you can find them at natural foods markets…
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THANKSGIVING OR CHRISTMAS RECIPE: Pumpkin Spice Cake

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The perfect cake for Thanksgiving, Christmas and Halloween. Photo courtesy The Sugar Mommas.   The Sugar Mommas, Kimberly and Jennifer, live in California, an entire country away from us. So if we want a piece of their Thanksgiving Pumpkin Spice Cake, we’ll have to make it ourselves. Fortunately, it’s not difficult to make a cake…
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THANKSGIVING RECIPE: Pumpkin Cream Cheese

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What’s for breakfast during pumpkin season? Bagels with pumpkin cream cheese spread! We recently devoured a whole wheat bagel with pumpkin cream cheese at Dunkin Donuts, and are now hooked on this holiday spread. It’s easy to make, with your choice of cream cheese (regular or fat free) or fresh goat cheese. Or, substitute sour…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Glazed Root Vegetables

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Yummy glazed root vegetables. Photo courtesy Capitol Grille | Nashville.   Ah, what beautiful food is served by chef Tyler Brown at the Capitol Grille in Nashville. While perusing the photo gallery on the restaurant’s website, we were inspired to whip up a batch of glazed root vegetables.* They were so tasty, we at the…
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