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Last Minute Thanksgiving Favors: Pretzel Turkey’s and Cornucopia Cones

November 26, 2014 by Margaret Leave a Comment

Last Minute Ideas

Do you need an easy, cute Thanksgiving favor for your guests?

Do you need something to entertain busy youngsters?

Do you just want to make something fun?

I was in charge of the favor this year. So the kids and I got on Pinterest and started searching.

We decided on Pretzel Turkey’s and Cornucopia Cones.

They looked easy enough so we went to work.

Things you will need:

Candy eyes
Yellow or Orange M&M’s
Candy corns
Round pretzels
Chocolate Kisses or Rolos

We found a cute little video on how to make Turkey Preztels. Everything was going great until….

Disaster.

The chocolate did not melt… it crumbled. It was baked and tasted a little burnt.

The instructions on the video said to put chocolate on pretzel and place in the oven…

350 degrees for 5 min.

I thought it sounded too hot.

And it was.

Now to be fair… it could just be my oven. I had been baking so the oven was already warn and I think it is dying. It is not the most reliable when it comes to times and temperatures.

We didn’t give up however. Back to Pinterest I went to compare temperatures for softening chocolate.

Times were all different but…

I thought 200 degrees for 3 minutes was a good place to start.

It was perfect.

hint: do in small batches unless you have a couple of helpers. If you have too many turkeys to build the chocolate will set before you are finished adding the candy.

On to our Cornucopia Cones.

Things you will need:

Sugar or Waffle cones

Candy

I followed Paper Turtle instructions, using steam. It worked great! You can see in my picture…It took me a few times to get the shape I wanted.

Fill with you favorite fall candy and decorate your table.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

Margaret

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Turkey Tetrazinni

November 19, 2014 by Margaret 4 Comments

I make Tetrazzini through out the year but it is another great way to use your Turkey Day left overs?

Turkey Tetrazzini

1/4 cup butter

1/4 cup flour

1/2 teaspoons salt

1/4 teaspoon pepper

1 cup chicken broth

1 cup whipping cream

7 ounces spaghetti

2 cups cubed cooked turkey

1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Melt butter over low heat. Blend in flour and seasonings. Cook, stirring until mixture is smooth and bubbly. Remove from heat. Stir in broth and cream. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil 1 min. Stir in spaghetti and turkey Pour into square baking dish. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Bake 30 min.

Enjoy!
Margaret

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Thanksgiving M&M Turkey Favors

November 17, 2014 by Margaret 6 Comments

Cute, easy craft for your Thanksgiving table. #turkeyfavors

I fell in love with these crazy looking turkeys when I saw them on Pinterest. I had to make them.

Gobble! Gobble!

We took the entire family and Thanksgiving to Great-Grandma’s house last year. My assignment was to create something fun for the table. I picked these Turkey favors. My kids had a blast helping me twist a cute pipe cleaner.

Jenn at Clean and Scentsible has a great tutorial on how to twist your pipe cleaner. She found circle netting for her turkeys. I wasn’t so lucky. I used brown mess netting cut into 12″ squares. I also closed these little beauties with a regular garbage bag twisty tie (I wanted to be able to get at them quickly).

I filled my little gobblers with regular M&M’s, Peanut M&M’s, and Peanut Butter M&M’s, because that’s what I like, but really any candy would work.

My original plan was to fill them with Fall colored M&M’s, but I couldn’t find any the week of Thanksgiving. So, if you ever plan on making these stock up on Fall colored M&M’s at Halloween.

Enjoy!

Margaret

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Fall At Our Etsy Shop

September 5, 2014 by Margaret 26 Comments

It is getting to be that time of year when I can get out my fall decor and redecorate. I love the colors, smells and the crisp evenings and mornings of Autumn.

We have a few new things in our “Etsy Shop”, just small things that can help spruce up your house for the different fall holidays.

Things for Halloween, just fall-ish or Thanksgiving and Christmas.
We have hopes that there is more to come.

This time not patterns but finished products.

Come for a Visit.

Mary Ellen

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Easy French Rolls

May 7, 2014 by Mary Ellen Stringham 6 Comments

Our family likes to eat a great variety of foods. There is always something at the dinner table that one person might not like, but the one weakness we all have is bread. Hot rolls for dinner are the best.

Since variety is the spice of life, this is our spice for this week.

“EASY FRENCH ROLLS”

are made from a variation of this great old recipe of Winnifred Jardine,

a past Food Editor for the Deseret News.

I don’t really know if you can botch this recipe.

Ingredients

2 tbsp SAF yeast

2 1/2 cups hot water

3 tbsp sugar

1 tbsp salt

5 tbsp vegetable oil

6 cups flour

1 egg white

In mixer bowl, mix 4 cups flour, sugar, salt and yeast. Add hot water (I get it as hot as my tap will get) and oil. Mix until smooth. Scrape sides. Stir in remaining flour and mix well.

Leave in mixing bowl, let rest 10 minutes. Turn mixer on to stir down dough, about 30 seconds. Let rest again for 10 minutes, repeat 3 more times. Turn out dough onto floured board. Knead once or twice until lightly coated with flour. Divide dough in half and from each half, cut into 12 equal pieces.

Form each piece into a ball and place on grease baking sheet. Let raise 30 minutes.

Brush with beaten egg white and gash across top with sharp knife.

It can also be formed into 2 loaves and cut 3 gashes diagonally.

Bake in 400 degree oven for 8-12 minutes or until golden brown. Serve hot with butter and your favorite home made jam. Ours is raspberry.

This recipe can also be made even if you don’t have a mixer. Just stir vigorously with a large

spoon leaving the spoon in the dough during rest and stir vigorously to stir down dough.

For fun variations after brushing with egg white sprinkle with sesame seeds or poppy seeds.

ENJOY!

Mary Ellen

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