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Sweet Easter Bread

By Lorraine

Using natural or dyed eggs you can make a beautiful sweet Easter bread. It is so easy especially when you let a bread machine do most of the work making the dough. An easy recipe for a lovely holiday breakfast.Have you ever wanted to make a sweet Easter bread for a lovely Resurrection Sunday breakfast? This recipe is so easy especially when you let a bread machine do most of the work. Easter bread is a long-time tradition here and you might want to make it one for your family too.
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Filed Under: Breads - Quick & Yeast, Holidays, Recipes Tagged With: Baking, bread, Easter, eggs, holiday, yeast, Yeast Bread

Crochet Shamrock Garland

By Lorraine

Make a quick and easy St Patrick's Day decoration. A crochet shamrock garland is so cute hung on a window, mantle or frame in Irish green.Irish or not, it is always fun to celebrate St Patrick’s Day each March 17th. Make a quick and easy crochet shamrock garland for your home as a cute decoration to hang across a window, mantle or frame.Continue Reading

Filed Under: Crafts, Crochet, Holidays Tagged With: Crafts, Crochet, holiday, St Patrick's day

Thanksgiving Tablescape

By Lorraine

Can you create an elegant Thanksgiving tablescape using disposable items? Absolutely yes! Save time, work, and enjoy being a hostess and your guests. Include a pretty centerpiece, candles and festive items for a chic or rustic look with this helpful shopping guide.

Can you create an inviting and elegant Thanksgiving tablescape using disposable items? Absolutely yes! Save a lot of time, extra work and most important of all, enjoy your family and guests. Continue Reading

Filed Under: Holidays, Shopping Tagged With: holiday, shopping guide, tablescape, Thanksgiving, tips

Red Velvet Marbled Cake

By Lorraine

From scratch recipe for a moist red velvet marbled cake made in a Bundt pan has a lovely icing just right for Valentine's Day or celebrating a birthday.A sweet treat is, well, a sweet way to show love to folks special to us.  So for this Valentine’s Day I’ll be remaking a recipe for moist red velvet marbled cake made in a Bundt pan.Continue Reading

Filed Under: Cakes & Cupcakes, Holidays, Recipes, Sweet Treats Tagged With: bundt cake, cake, holiday, party, Valentine's Day

Christmas Tree Fire Retardant

By Lorraine

Keep your family and home safer with this easy recipe for Christmas tree fire retardant. Helps tree maintain freshness longer for a safe and happy holiday.A Christmas tree is a traditional part of our holiday decor and many people cherish a live tree. Artificial trees are lovely, convenient and can be used year-after-year. But, they do not compare to a real tree to bring the outdoor beauty and fragrance into our homes. Keeping a real tree healthy, green and above all safe is of major concern. This recipe for a live Christmas tree fire retardant along with other safety measures will help make the holiday season a happy and safe one.Continue Reading

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Colored Deviled Eggs for Easter

By Lorraine

Bring springtime to your Easter table with a palate of soft pastel colored deviled eggs that are almost too pretty to eat. Instead of dying the egg shells, the cooked white part of the egg is colored then filled with the yolk mixture just like regular deviled eggs.Looking to bring springtime to your Easter table? A palate of soft pastel hues, these colored deviled eggs for Easter are almost too pretty to eat.Continue Reading

Filed Under: Appetizers, Holidays, Recipes Tagged With: Easter, eggs, holiday

Rum Raisin Cranberry Parfait

By Lorraine

Rum Raisin Cranberry Topping is the perfect balance between tart and sweet. Spoon over ice cream, yogurt or pound cake for a tasty treat.
After the heavy desserts eaten through the holiday season, this mild yet tasty sauce makes a lovely ice-cream or yogurt parfait. Rum Raisin Cranberry Parfait is not tart like cranberry salsa or cranberry sauce yet it is not too sweet.Continue Reading

Filed Under: Desserts, Recipes, Sweet Treats Tagged With: holiday

Gingerbread Cookie Parting Treats

By Lorraine

Give your holiday visitors gingerbread cookie parting treats as a thoughtful gesture. Let them snip from a decorative swag, hung by the door, a wrapped gingerbread cookie as they depart.
Giving your holiday visitors a sweet parting gift is a thoughtful gesture. Here is a way to send them home with a little something extra that is both tasty and decorative! Gingerbread cookie parting treats is an adorable project that your guests both young and old can snip off and take along as they depart.Continue Reading

Filed Under: Holidays, Recipes Tagged With: Christmas, Cookies, Crafts, gifts, holiday

St Patrick’s Day Roundup of Ideas

By Lorraine

All you need for celebrating St Patrick's Day with a Roundup of Ideas for appetizer, entrees and sweet treat dessert. Festive Irish Cream Cake, Lamb Stew, Irish Soda Bread, buttery cookies, Frozen Minty Mousse Pie, Shamrock Milkshake, Corned Beef Brisket, and Potato Skins plus more. Scroll through and get ready to party! 
All you need for celebrating is this St Patrick’s Day Roundup of Ideas for appetizer, entrees and sweet treat dessert. Festive Irish Cream Cake, Lamb Stew, Irish Soda Bread, buttery cookies, Frozen Minty Mousse Pie, Shamrock Milkshake, Corned Beef Brisket, and Potato Skins plus more. Scroll through and get ready to party!

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Filed Under: Holidays, Recipes Tagged With: holiday, Irish, St Patrick's day

Delicious Caramels

By Lorraine

Super easy recipe for delicious caramels using the microwave. Soft candy begins with condensed milk and in just a few minutes it is ready to pour into a dish. Cool, cut and enjoy! Lovely packaged up for holiday gift-giving.My long-time blogging friend, Diana shared her recipe for delicious caramels on her blog, Nana Diana Takes a Break. I had never made caramels but since Diana said this recipe never fails (and she has tried many recipes) I was excited to make a batch.  And, then another batch.  Because they are that good!
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Filed Under: Desserts, Recipes, Sweet Treats Tagged With: gifts, holiday

Jalapeno Cranberry Spread

By Lorraine

You and your guests will love Jalapeno Cranberry Spread. Quick and easy recipe and a perfect appetizer for holiday entertaining or Super Bowl watching with friends.
Looking for something for your New Year’s Eve celebration? My young friend, Sarah, shared her recipe for a very easy, very pretty and very delicious sweet and spicy appetizer. I watched her husband make Jalapeno Cranberry Spread recently and everyone at the table commented how much they enjoyed it.Continue Reading

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Mother’s Day Vintage Tablescape and Brunch Menu

By Lorraine

I love this quote. It brings back so many sweet memories for my husband and I as we remember our Mothers this Mother’s Day. Gathering many old rose pottery pieces and boopie glasses from our childhood, I created a vintage tablescape and a menu any mom would enjoy.

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Vintage Chic Easter Brunch for Two

By Lorraine

 
Gather together some olden linens, treasured Easter decorations and a couple of recipes your grandma probably made long ago, for a Vintage Chic Easter Brunch for two that mostly can be prepared ahead.Continue Reading

Filed Under: Breakfast & Brunch, Holidays, Recipes, Vintage Tagged With: Crafts, Crochet, Easter, holiday, kitchen

Corned Beef Brisket with a Mustard Glaze

By Lorraine

Making corned beef brisket is a tradition for St. Patrick’s Day dinner. I simply follow the cooking directions on the package but take it one step further. Corned beef brisket with a mustard glaze adds a subtle sweetness and a nice browned top on the meat.Continue Reading

Filed Under: Beef, Holidays, Main Dishes, Recipes Tagged With: Beef, entree, holiday, St Patrick's day

Hoppin’ John New Year’s Eve

By Lorraine

This New Year's eve, we tried a new-to-us dinner menu of traditional southern foods including Hoppin' John, simmered collard greens and prune cake from a segment of Kathie Lee's Early Show program.

We tried a New Year’s eve dinner menu with new-to-us foods including Hoppin’ John and other southern favorites. I caught a segment of the Early Show the other day and saw for the first time, lifestyle contributor, Katie Lee as she served up delicious recipes that she suggested just might bring good luck in the new year.  I don’t buy much into luck but these dishes sure did look tempting even to this Northern girl.

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Filed Under: Main Dishes, Recipes, Vegetables & Sides Tagged With: Cambrie, Grandchildren, holiday, New Year's eve

Minty Ice Cream Shamrocks

By Lorraine

Easy recipe for homemade chocolate cookies cut into shamrock shapes with a cookie cutter. Spread with mint chocolate chip ice cream to create festive St Patrick's Day Minty Ice Cream Shamrocks treats.
Easy recipe for homemade chocolate cookies cut into shamrock shapes with a cookie cutter. Spread with mint chocolate chip ice cream to create festive St Patrick’s Day Minty Ice Cream Shamrock treats.

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Filed Under: Holidays, Recipes Tagged With: Baking, Cookies, holiday

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