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Cranberry Cider Recipe with Fennel and Orange

Cranberry Cider Recipe with Fennel and Orange

Hot Cranberry Cider Recipe with Fennel and Orange, Hot Cider Variations,

Yesterday I introduced my Winter Warmers Series, all about warm things to sip on through the holidays. Today I’m sharing a Hot Cranberry Cider Recipe with Fennel and Orange. Don’t miss any of my hot holiday drinks. Get the recipes delivered to your email inbox by subscribing

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The Drink Makes The Party: Apple Cider Recipe

Easy Hot Apple Cider Recipe, Hot Apple Cider with Rosemary, Hot Apple Cider Variations

I’m kicking the holiday season off with my favorite Hot Apple Cider Recipe. Why? Read on… We’re standing on the Welcome Mat, knees shaking with cold and excitement. We can almost identify the song twinkling from the stereo inside. Through the window we see the shadows

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Video: The Merry Gourmet & Thanksgiving Tips

Easy Thanksgiving Dinner Tips, stress-free

What thought sends thousands of cooks into a panic every year at this time? Thanksgiving is one week away! Thinking about the fact that you need to make a delicious meal

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Sweet Potato Crisp Recipe at Bob’s Red Mill

Sweet Potato Crisp Recipe by @cookthestory

I’m starting to get excited about Thanksgiving. This surprises me because I don’t really think of American Thanksgiving as my own holiday. But somehow over the years it has weedled its way into our life. And so have some of the traditional recipes. We tried Green Bean Casserole

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What To Serve Vegetarians For Thanksgiving

Our Thanksgiving tables when we lived in Toronto: Set and ready for the guests to arrive. What to serve vegetarians for Thanksgiving?

Having guests with dietary restrictions for Thanksgiving dinner can be tough. But you want to accommodate everyone. I never used to know what to serve vegetarians for Thanksgiving. But I have a strategy now that involves little extra

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A Move, A Hiatus And A Sausage and Pear Stuffing

It’s official! We’re moving! Yesterday we got possession of the new house and so we’ve begun slowly taking boxes over. The day of our BIG MOVE (beds and other furniture) has been scheduled for the 21st. The babe isn’t due until November 12th but I have a suspicion that s/he wants to make a grand [...]

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What do Two Canadians and a Brit do on American Thanksgiving?

Cross Seminole Trail, Seminole County, Florida

Walk of course. And walk and walk and walk and then pray that they don’t have to eat Big Macs when they finally stop and then wish that they could please please please have a Big Mac. Just one. Please? I don’t know what the other Canadians and Brits in Florida were doing but that’s [...]

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“It’s just like apple juice but warm and…ummm…BETTER!”

Mulled apple cider

I made this apple cider for our first Canadian Thanksgiving in the US as well as for our first American Thanksgiving. Read the stories here. As our Thanksgiving dinner guests arrive, we head out to the backyard for pre-dinner snacks and numbingly spiced hot apple cider. The cider stays warm in a crock-pot set on [...]

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Thanksgiving Stories

A Very Warm Thanksgiving

We moved from Canada to Florida nearly two years ago. Last year around this time I wrote the piece found below. The phrase “It IS Thanksgiving Here” is in response to an episode of the podcast Cast On. Cast On is meant to be listened to while knitting (or crocheting or spinning). But this particular [...]

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