A quick and delicious recipe for Rosemary Sea Salt that makes a great holiday hostess gift! Raise your hand if you love to give hostess gifts. Raise your hand again if you love to receive hostess gifts! Maybe it’s because I’m from Texas, but my mom always taught me you should never show up at a party empty handed. Today I wanted to share a recipe for one of my favorite quick and easy ...
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8 Tips for Planning A Stress-Free Thanksgiving Meal, A Thanksgiving Planning Printable, + Meal Plan Monday Week 46
Today I'm sharing 8 Tips for Planning A Stress-Free Thanksgiving Meal along with a super helpful Thanksgiving shopping list and cooking planner. Another Meal Plan Monday is at the bottom of the post. Was it just me or did last week fly by super fast? I think part of is is because it was my birthday week, so Monday (my birthday) was a day off for me and my week was only 4 days long. Can you ...
Blogsgiving Dinner | Slow Cooker Sage Cornbread Dressing
Since this week is Blogsgiving Dinner, I'm sharing this recipe for slow cooker sage cornbread dressing that comes from my Great Grandma! It's been adapted for the slow cooker to save precious oven space on Thanksgiving day. This week is Blogsgiving Dinner around the web and I'm so excited to join in! Like Thanksgiving, the food blogging community is all about family, friends ...
Merry Christmas Y’all From Sustaining the Powers!
I hope you are each enjoying a relaxing holiday week with your family! I'm enjoying being back in Austin with all my family this year. The land of Whataburger, 70 degree December days, and BBQ brisket is always my favorite. (I can't even explain to any of you non-Texans the importance of Whataburger, but you Texans know what I'm talking about. Amarillo has the closest Whataburger to Denver, and ...
Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? – A Sharing Traditions Guest Post at Novelties and Trinkets
Earlier this Month, Meagan over at Novelties and Trinkets asked me to write a guest post about one of my favorite holiday memories. So today over on her blog I'm introducing you all to Pat the snowman. Much like Frozen's Olaf, he brought our family a lot of joy during a very emotionally tough holiday season. Check out my guest post on her blog to find out why he's so special to me ...
Retro Re-pin Party #22 Featuring Homemade Vanilla Sugar
It's time to Retro Re-pin Party! This week has finally felt like Christmas around here. I went to my first holiday party - a book swap with my book club. We each brought a book we really love and exchanged them with a little poem. Whichever book we ended up with will be what we read for January's book club meeting. When I first joined the book club, I had no idea how much I'd come to enjoy ...
Sugared Cranberries – The Perfect Accent For Your Holiday Baking
Sugared Cranberries have a sugary crust on the outside, but pop open to reveal their tart insides when you bite them. They're easier to make than you think, and they're the perfect accent for all your holiday baking and cocktails. Our church had a Christmas concert on Sunday night and everyone was asked to bring their favorite Christmas treats to share. (If you follow me on ...
A Recipe Roundup: Holiday Drinks from Around the World
9 Holiday Drinks From Around The World: Glühwein, Uzvar Kompot, Sahlep, Cava, Cola de Mono, Sorrel Punch, Ponche Navideño, Wassail and Coquito. Most can be made with or without alcohol. I came across this list of holiday drinks from around the world on a friend's Facebook page earlier this week. Everything there looked so incredible, but they didn't include any recipes! Of course, ...
Red Hot Candy Cinnamon Baked Apples
Red Hot Candy Cinnamon Baked Apples - A quick baked apple side dish that can be served hot or cold. Since the combination of daylight savings time and winter is leaving me without much natural light to photograph in, I recently put a few tabletop light boxes on my birthday/Christmas wishlist. My hubby took one look at their design, and the $150 price tag, and decided we could DIY our own for ...
A Food Lover’s Low-Budget Holiday Gift Guide
A Food Lover's Holiday Gift Guide- 10 great gifts for food lovers under $20 I've been seeing Holiday Gift Guides popping up all over the place and thought it might be fun to write one of my own including a few of my favorite under $20 kitchen gadgets and tools. (Note, these are not affiliate links, I just really like these products.) 1. Black & Decker Handy Chopper Plus - I ...
Happy Thanksgiving!
This year, I am thankful for each and every one of my readers, my fellow bloggers, my family, and my friends. Thanksgiving is a time to count your blessings, and I am realizing I am blessed beyond my wildest dreams. I hope each of you have a wonderful holiday with your loved ones and enjoy many, many delicious foods. I know I can't wait for an afternoon of pie and football! Bring on the stretchy ...