Category: Holiday

Shortbread Sandwich Cookies

You know those oval-shaped sandwich cookies with chocolate in the middle?  The ones in the little white bag?  You will never have to buy them again.  Believe me: these Shortbread Sandwich Cookies taste so much better!  They would make an excellent addition to your holiday cookie tray.

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Chocolate Covered Popcorn

Chocolate Covered Popcorn is another quick and easy snack that doesn’t involve turning on the oven… my favorite kind of recipe in the hot summer months!  This isn’t just a summer recipe, though.  You can customize it for any time of the year.  Use holiday-colored candies to make it festive.  Add your favorite…

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Molasses Ginger Cookies

I love gingerbread cookies.  They are so much fun to cut out, decorate, and most of, eat!  These molasses ginger cookies remind me of gingerbread cookies, but without the extra work of rolling out the dough and decorating.  These cookies can be baked normal sized, or twice as large for you giant cookie…

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Jack O’ Lantern Cheese Ball

I love having festive foods at get-togethers!  Cheese and crackers are a classic appetizer.  This cheddar cheese ball is dressed up with bright orange cheese crackers, and can even be decorated to look like a jack o’ lantern for Halloween.  For Thanksgiving or other fall get-togethers, you can leave off the black olives,…

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Watermelon Limeade

One of my son’s favorite things about summer is watermelon.  The only other fruit which competes for his “favorite” summer fruit is cantaloupe, or as he pronounces it, “Kay-wope!” or even “Kan-ka-wope”.  But, back to watermelon… I usually buy a whole watermelon, as they are the best deal.  However, that leaves me with…

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us in the Everyday Home Cook household! Recipe for Whole Wheat Pizza Crust can be found here!  

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Sugar Cookie Cutouts

I love old family recipes.  They mean so much to me, because not only are they the foods that I grew up with, but my family grew up with them as well.  It’s that connection to past generations which makes them all-the-more special.  Growing up, we made sugar cookies for just about every…

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Valentine’s Day Ideas

Candy and Valentine’s Day can hardly be separated. Try to imagine a Valentine’s Day without seeing one of those giant heart-shaped boxes full of chocolates…  It’s pretty difficult! However, you don’t have to spend a lot of money to show your loved ones just how special they are to you.  This Valentine’s Day,…

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White Chocolate & Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

Oatmeal cookies are so versatile.  Plain, with raisins, with butterscotch chips… But my favorite version, with cranberries and white chocolate, is just ever so slightly above butterscotch chips!  The best thing about this recipe, is that you can make all of those different kinds just from this single base recipe.  All you need…

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Thanksgiving Turkey

I sent a tweet the other day, announcing my latest debacle.  My camera card has gone missing!  And I am smacking myself in the forehead for not saving my step-by-step “how to brine a turkey” pictures on my computer soon after taking them. So, my dear friends, I am going to post a…

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