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November 24, 2010
Heather L
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Gluten Free No-Cook Cranberry Relish

Posted in Gluten Free, and Homemaking

My mom use to make this no-cook cranberry relish for us.  I never did find her old recipe, so I just recreated it from memory.  We do have a funny story to go along with this one.  When my sister and I were younger, my mom decided to allow us to help with making the cranberry relish.  She had one of the old grinders that you fastened to a table.  We started putting the ingredients into the grinder and turning the handle.  I’m not exactly sure what happened next, but before we knew it, there was cranberry relish all over…

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November 24, 2010
Heather L
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2010 Gluten Free Thanksgiving Menu

Posted in Holidays, and Homemaking

I thought it would be fun to blog through our Thanksgiving menu, so today, the plan is to blog about our Thanksgiving prep.  My plan is to post recipes and pictures for the various items on our Thanksgiving menu throughout the day.  Here’s what our menu looks like this year. What do you think?  Am I missing anything?  I’d love to hear your plans for Thanksgiving this year.  If you’ve posted a menu on your blog, please leave a link in the comments as I’d like to stop by and see it.

November 24, 2010
Heather L
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Remember a Thanksgiving Road Trip

Posted in Family, and Holidays

As I said in my previous post, Thanksgiving always meant a road trip to my grandpa and grandma’s house in PA.  Back then, road trips did not involve electronics as they do today.  Nope, we had to entertain ourselves from Michigan to Pennsylvania and back home again.  My sister and I would sit in the back seat and get along perfectly.  Um, well, okay, we did do some of the “she’s touching me” type of stuff, but the trips weren’t that bad.  At least, I don’t think they were.  I’m sure my Dad might have a little different take on…

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November 23, 2010
Heather L
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Gearing up for Thanksgiving

Posted in Family, Holidays, and Homemaking

Our Thanksgiving preparations actually begin way back in October.  You see, we decorate for harvest starting on October 1st.  When the 1st of November arrives, we start to add in some Thanksgiving specific decorations.  The beginning of November also means that we’ll be doing some sort of a thankful craft.  This year, we did the Gratitude Tree.  Last year, we did the Giving Thanks Turkey craft.  Whatever craft we do, the purpose is to remind us to remain thankful during the month. Going gluten free changed how I prepared our Thanksgiving meal.  For years, I used doctored up store products…

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