Ingredients 1 (9 inch) unbaked deep dish pie crust 3/4 cup white sugar 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 2 eggs 1 (15 ounce) can LIBBY’S® 100% Pure Pumpkin 1 (12 fluid ounce) can NESTLE® CARNATION® Evaporated Milk Directions Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. CombineRead More
Recipes
Thanksgiving Turkey
14lb Butterball or largerOlive Oil1/2-3/4 stick of Butter32oz Chicken Broth Dry Rub: Preheat oven to 200. Rinse off the turkey in the sink and remove the giblet bag & neck. You might think to yourself, “maybe this turkey doesn’t have a giblet bag.” I assure you that it does! You find that bag! It’s usuallyRead More
Peanut Brittle
This is my great grandma’s recipe that she was known for. People looked forward to getting a tin of her peanut brittle around Christmas each year. She taught me how to make it before passing away. No one else in the family really made it well and there are a few little tricks that makeRead More
Chocolate Pudding Pie
Chocolate Pudding 1 box 1 Graham Cracker Crust Cool Whip 2c Milk or Almond Milk Mix up the pudding with milk and beat for 2mins. Pour it in the crust and refrigerate so the pudding sets up. Too with Cool Whip. You could add some chocolate chips, shaved chocolate, crushed candy canes or some hotRead More
Mashed Potatoes
5-6lbs Potatoes 1 stick butter (or 3/4c Olive Oil) 1/2 c milk/almond milk 1/2 c plain yogurt (dairy free optional or real sour cream) 1tsp onion powder 1 Tbsp Garlic Salt 1 tsp Black Pepper Peel the potatoes then cut them into pieces and boil until tender enough to easily pierce with a fork. ThisRead More
Tacos
1lb Ground Turkey 1lb Ground Beef 2 Taco Seasoning Packets Lettuce Tomatoes Salsa Sour Cream Shredded Cheese Taco Shells Flour Tortillas Avocado Tortilla Chips Our family tends to like different types of shells- hard, soft, little, burrito size, or just chips. If you want to make your own seasoning see my recipe.
Taco Seasoning
This is a recipe I put together for those times where you forget to get a packet of seasoning at the store! We typically cook 2lbs of meat for tacos at our house. I like to do 1lb of ground turkey and a pound of ground beef. It’s less expensive and a little leaner. 1/8Read More
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
This is pretty easy. The hardest part is culling all the seeds out of the squishy pumpkin innards. Here is a recipe we found. I think we cooked the seeds a little longer. You want them to look roasted and be fairly crunchy. https://www.jessicagavin.com/how-to-roast-pumpkin-seeds/
Pad Thai
Brandi found this recipe online and we made it during a spring break where we picked a different country each day of the week. Her printed pdf is available here for credit to the original source & instructions. 4 ounces dry pad thai noodles 1 (rice noodles)Boiling water to cover noodles1 large shallot, finely dicedRead More
Roasted Butternut Squash
I found this recipe at https://www.aheadofthyme.com/roasted-butternut-squash/ and just tried it this year. It was great! We just get the butternut squash pre-cut at Costco. butternut squash – one medium head butternut squash peeled and cubed into 1-inch pieces (about 5-6 cups). olive oil rosemary – I used dried rosemary buy you can also substitute withRead More