Good Old Fashion Christmas Cookies Recipe

This is just a good old fashion Christmas cookie recipe. You can use the little cut outs and decorate them to different little shapes like stars, Christmas stocking, Rudolph, Santa and Christmas trees. Put on sprinkles or icing for decoration. Put them in a basket or a tin and give them out as a gift. Tie a bow around your tin or stick one on. These two photos can give you ideas of how you can dress up your cookies even more.

Tomato Soup Recipe

Man it's cold!!! It's 29 degrees where I am and the wind chill is 20! Well for me the first thing I want is soup, tea or oatmeal!

Today I want to share with you this Indian Tomato Soup recipe by Vahchef. This is not a plain tomato soup it has all of the good extra spices that the body needs to be healty when it's cold. (Except the salt)
And remember you can always add other ingredients to your tomato soup to make it more heartier like ham, shrimp, veggies, crackers or anything that you like.

Be The Hit Of The Party With This Peanut Butter-Banana Brownies Recipe

Oh boy here comes the pounds! I am a nut for brownies, but this one takes the cake! I found this peanut butter banana brownie recipe and made it. All I could say is that I must have gained 10 pounds. Yum, yum, yum! Don't be a glutton like me just eat in moderation of about maybe two pieces?

Ingredients
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 cup white sugar
1 cup all-purpose flour

Pumpkin Pancakes Recipe

Use canned pumpkin puree, freshly prepared puree, or frozen puree which has been thawed. Cold leftover pancakes is a great snack for the kids.

1 cup all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1 egg, slightly beaten
2 cups pumpkin puree

Pumpkin Pie Recipe

This is a quick easy pumpkin pie recipe. Which is perfect for the holidays or anytime you want pumpkin pie to please your taste buds. Pumkin is also good for you because it comes from your orange food group.

Pumpkin is loaded with an important antioxidant, beta-carotene. Beta-carotene is one of the plant carotenoids that converted to vitamin A in your body. In the conversion to vitamin A, beta carotene performs many important functions in your overall health.

Chocolate Pecan Pie Recipe

Now that we know that dark chocolate is good for you. I would suggest dark chocolate for this pecan pie recipe.




4 eggs
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of dark corn syrup
3 squares of unsweetened chocolate
2 cups of pecan halves
1 pie shell

Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 350 F.
2. Add the eggs, sugar and dark corn syrup to a mixer bowl.
3. Attached with a flat beater, turn to speed 6 for 1 minute then stop and scrape the bowl.
4. Reduce the speed to 4.
5. Gradually add melted, unsweetened chocolate and beat for 1 minute until well blended.
6. Reduce the speed to stir and add pecan halves.
7. Now pour the mixture into an unbaked pie pastry shell in an ungreased pie plate.
8. Bake for 35-45 minutes or until slightly soft in the center.

Leftover Turkey? Make Turkey Soup!

Well now that it has been a couple of days after Thanksgiving. You probably are douwn to the turkey carcass. It's time to make turkey soup! Plus this is perfect for those cold winter days.

Ingredients
1 leftover turkey carcass (from a 14-pound turkey)
3 quarts water
2 cans (14-1/2 ounces each) Progresso ® Reduced-Sodium Chicken Broth
1/2 cup uncooked long-grain rice

How to Cook A Turkey

Ok it's almost Thanksgiving and a lot of you are beginners or this will be your first Thanksgiving cooking your first turkey. Well this is one of the best turkey videos that you can learn from on How to Cook a Turkey.

How to Make the Best Vanilla Extract - Great Gift Giving!

Author: bodyhealthwellness

Making your own vanilla extract is a great way to make neat gifts for others while enjoying your own “stash.” Vanilla extract is made with a low proof vodka but some people make it with rum. Before you “think it,” just know a higher proof alcohal does