I love pumpkin pie. My husband loves pumpkin pie, too. We discovered our mutual love for it above all other pies – no, above all other desserts – during our third date. We still wonder why we went with a traditional wedding cake instead of pumpkin pie at our wedding reception. Obviously I made pumpkin [...]
continue »CEDAR RAPIDS- For many stores, and shoppers, Black Friday may have started late Thanksgiving evening. But some people just don’t want to wait in line for hours, no matter how good the deal. Those shoppers also turned out in big numbers on Black Friday, but they did so at what some called a more “civilized” [...]
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Thanksgiving was not my favorite holiday when I was a kid. Instead of seeing the holiday as a time for togetherness and gratitude, I have memories of long car rides, endless football games on TV and dishes. The pumpkin pie was good, but there was no way one piece of pie – and a [...]
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TURKEY DAY TREASURES For the first time since adding a third Thanksgiving Day game in 2006, all three games will air on over-the-air networks. Detroit extends its Thanksgiving tradition for the 73rd time while facing Houston (CBS). Dallas will host Washington its 45th Thanksgiving installment (Fox). NBC adds a new wrinkle by adding the night [...]
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Thanksgiving is a week away, and the staff of nine at Nelson’s Meat Market have their sleeves rolled up. Owner Mark Martin said each year the store sells about 600 turkeys for the occasion. That figure includes grilled turkeys Martin himself makes to order on Thanksgiving morning. It’s the second-busiest week of the year for [...]
continue »I rearrange my kitchen every three or four months. I take everything out of the cupboards, drawers and pantry, wipe down shelves, toss expired items, and put everything away in a new and efficient manner. Nine times out of 10, this new and efficient manner is exactly how everything was — just cleaner. I focused [...]
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When I was a little kid, I never ate the stuffing served at Thanksgiving. I was convinced it was gross, and would fill my plate with turkey and mashed potatoes instead. I was a stupid kid. I don’t remember when or why I realized the greatness that is stuffing. It was probably around the time [...]
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PENN HILLS, Pa. (AP) – A wild turkey smashed through a plate glass window at an empty western Pennsylvania restaurant and ended up where millions of its fellow gobblers did on Thanksgiving: a dining room. Penn Hills police Officer Bernard Sestili tells the WTAE-TV the feathered fowl didn’t survive impact when it barreled into the [...]
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(Warning: Satire) Welcome to my Republican presidential potluck, Gov. Romney. So what did you bring? “I was going to bring deviled eggs, but changed my mind. Then I committed to stuffing, but rethought that. Then it hit me, I’ll bring a big handsome turkey. Because a turkey looks great on the outside, and even [...]
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You’ve probably heard that tomorrow will be the most expensive Thanksgiving in history. The meal alone will cost an average of nearly $50 for a 10-person dinner — about 13 percent more than last year. And while you might not even notice the bigger bill, securing that standard turkey-cranberries-stuffing feast can be rough going [...]
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