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I’m thankful for cheese.
Adventures in cooking: A turkey
Damn straight. Happy Thanksgiving from Turkeesha!
Adventures in cooking: Gingery apple crumb pie
This was my first time making an apple pie from scratch, and boy was it hard work. But it will be worth it because that beauty above will bring my family a delicious dessert and me a smug sense of accomplishment. Yea, I made that. From SCRATCH.
The recipe I used for the crust and the recipe I used for the actual pie were both taken from Real Simple’s Thanksgiving edition.
1. Learn how to make your own pie crust.
2. Mouth watering yet? Bring a gingery apple crumb pie to your Thanksgiving.
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Adventures in cooking: Pumpkin spice no-bake cheesecake
One pie down, two to go. I’m having a blast on my day off listening to the Peaceful Holidays station on Pandora and cooking up delicious desserts for Thanksgiving tomorrow.
For a dessert that doesn’t always show up on the dinner table, try out this easy — and not too unhealthy — recipe for pumpkin cheesecake.
Ingredients:
— 8 oz 1/3 less fat Philadelphia Cream Cheese
— 1/2 cup canned pumpkin
— 1 tsp vanilla
— 1 tsp cinnamon
— 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
— 1/4 cup brown sugar, unpacked
— 8 oz Cool Whip Free, thawed
— 9 inch reduced fat Graham Cracker Crust
Directions:
1. In a large bowl using an electric mixer, whip cream cheese, pumpkin, vanilla, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, and brown sugar for a few minutes until fluffy.
2. Add Cool Whip and whip until smooth.
3. Spoon mixture into pie crust and chill for a few hours, until firm.
Fun Fact: The average American consumes more than 4,500 calories on Thanksgiving.
But one slice of this pie has only 239 calories! That’s at least one guilt-free indulgence.
The beautiful candelabra above is going for $99 from West Elm— which is way too pricey for a seasonal item in my opinion.
This could be a fairly simple DIY project if you used a real tree branch and it would cost you just a fraction of the price. Although, that does seem like a bit of a fire hazard, but it’s just so prettyyyy.
(photo via sparklyofmyveryown:misswallflower)
This is just some of the loot Brad and I picked up last night for our Adopt-A-Family kids we’re buying Christmas presents for.
After strolling the aisles cluelessly — Is a 4T the same as a 4? — we had a good time trying to pick out cute items from the children’s wishlists.
Look at those little boots! And baby leggings! And that weeble-wobbly penguin! Such fun.
22 rules that every journalist should read - and follow
My favorites:
2. We would invite our audience to participate in the journalism process, in a variety of ways that included crowdsourcing, audience blogging, wikis and many other techniques. We’d make it clear that we’re not looking for free labour – and will work to create a system that rewards contributors beyond a pat on the back – but want above all to promote a multi-directional flow of news and information in which the audience plays a vital role.
3. Transparency would be a core element of our journalism. One example of many: every print article would have an accompanying box called “Things We Don’t Know,” a list of questions our journalists couldn’t answer in their reporting. TV and radio stories would mention the key unknowns. Whatever the medium, the organisation’s website would include an invitation to the audience to help fill in the holes, which exist in every story.
15. We’d routinely point to our competitors’ work, including (and maybe especially) the best of the new entrants, such as bloggers who cover specific niche subjects. When we’d covered the same topic, we’d link to them so our audience can gain wider perspectives. We’d also talk about, and point to, competitors when they covered things we missed or ignored.
18. For any person or topic we covered regularly, we would provide a “baseline”: an article or video where people could start if they were new to the topic, and point prominently to that “start here” piece from any new coverage. We might use a modified Wikipedia approach to keep the article current with the most important updates. The point would be context, giving some people a way to get quickly up to speed and others a way to recall the context of the issue.
(link via jaclynday)
- Bits of me -
I am a relatively recent college graduate that just entered reality.
I work and live in the suburbs, but I play in the city.
I am a native Chicagoian, but my heart longs for New York.
I love creative writing, literary non-fiction and feature writing.
I love hard news and celebrity gossip.
I am a self-proclaimed fashionista with a weakness for white wine and sushi.
Love me, hate me, e-mail me: AbitofBritt@gmail.com
