Survive your family during the holidays

Thanksgiving and Christmas are two holidays when families come together to celebrate.  Family is a place where you grow up.  Family should be a safe haven where you can be yourself.  Many look forward to seeing relatives they probably don't often get to visit.  It' often a very pleasant time of growing and relating.  But, not always!  Many families have at least one hot button topic or situation that tends to pop up within every holiday gathering.  Because family is a place where you grow up, with family comes a lifetime of memories.  Some of these memor... From: How To Survive Holiday Family Gatherings

Easy turkey leftover recipes

When Thanksgiving comes and goes, if you happen to be the one hosting the gathering; you no doubt will be left with plenty of turkey leftovers.  Since turkey is a great source of lean protein, you'll want to make the most of whatever was left over as to not throw any of it out.  Here are three easy recipes your entire family will enjoy and won't take an entire day of cooking to prepare.  The following recipes are some of the easiest that require ingredients that most kitchens have on hand, which means one less trip out the door to spend time shopping for additional ingredients t... From: Three Easy Family Recipes For Thanksgiving Turkey Leftovers

Easy Thanksgiving turkey leftover recipe

Thanksgiving comes with much anticipation and excitement for not only the day of remembering, celebration and gratitude but also for the delicious food.  There is pumpkin pie, and cranberry sauce and rolls and green been casserole.  Oh, and don't forget the turkey.  But, when the Thanksgiving feast is over and the family and friends have dispersed; you are left with turkey - Leftover turkey!  What do you do with the leftover turkey?
There are numerous recipes that include leftover turkey.  Here is one that is so easy your children can easily help you.  You may ev... From: Easy Turkey Leftover Rollups Recipe

Make an easy cranberry cinnamon applesauce dish

Thanksgiving and Christmas are great times to get together with families and friends and share good conversation along with good food.  Often, its very easy to over indulge on food items at parties especially when guests and friends or family members bring high-calorie, fat-filled menu items to share.  You can change this trend among your group of relatives and friends.  One way to do this is to bring a very heart-healthy dish and make it as appealing as possible.
The type of dish you decide to display your food item in holds a lot of weight.  If your dish is appealing, it... From: Easy Delicious Heart Healthy Cranberry Applesauce for Holidays

I'm writing in NanoWriMo Are You?

Found out today that there is a program to celebrate National Writer's Month (November). It's called NanoWriMo and it's free. You writer a novel in the month of November. The goal is to write a little bit each day till you reach 50,000 words.