Holidays

Chicken Divan

Chicken Divan is essentially a chicken casserole made with cream soup, broccoli, cheese and mayonnaise. If you are trying to lose some weight stay away from this recipe. If you don’t care and want another easy way to make chicken then be sure to try this one. Chicken Divan can also become Turkey Divan which you can use to get rid of Thanksgiving left overs. You can also substitute shredded rotisserie or huli huli chicken for the chicken breast.
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Ozoni

Ozoni is New Year’s Soup with Mochi. The custom of eating ozoni began in Japan in the 15th century. People took mochi that had been offered to the “year god” and simmered it with food from the ocean and the mountains symbolizing prosperity for the coming year. Ozoni is Japansese for mixed simmerings.
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Easy Pumpkin Pie

The pumpkin shortage you read about in the news is not going to affect us this year but may be a problem next year. Nestle which owns Libby products was unable to pick pumpkins due to heavy rains. Pumpkins rot when they sit in the mud for prolonged periods of time and because of this, Libby has decided to stop canning any more pumpkins this year.
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Cranberry Bread Pudding

Cranberries belong to a group of evergreen dwarf shrub native to bogs. Bogs are wetlands typically found in cold areas of the northern hemisphere. The water originating from bogs are acidic and have a charateristic brown color from dissoved peat tannins and decaying vegetable matter.

All of this sounds pretty gross but the Native Americans who lived off the land were not going to let a little acidic bog water stop them. Today cranberries are commercially grown in sandy beds constructed in upland areas, which have shallow water tables. Contrary to popular belief, cranberry beds are only flooded during harvest and the winter months to prevent frost damage. So the what you see on TV in the Oceans Spray commercials are not everyday occurances in the life of a cranberry.
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Recipepapa.com Turkey

When it comes to Turkey here at Recipepapa.com, the philosophy is KISS. Keep it simple silly. Trying to be fancy and doing too much will get you in trouble. Besides Thanksgiving is about enjoying the food, watching some football and the company. For this recipe you will need a lot of butter, Hawaiian salt and aluminum foil.
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Orange-Glazed Sweet-Potatoes or Yams

Yams vs Sweet Potatoes

Did you know that Yams in the U.S. are actually sweet potatoes? These orange-fleshed sweet potatoes were called yams to avoid confusion with the traditional sweet potato that has white flesh. For some reason there could not be an orange-fleshed and white fleshed sweet potato together on the same dinner table. One had to be called sweet potato, the other yam. The word yam comes from the African word nyami which means starchy edible root.
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Recipepapa Stuffing

This stuffing is not actually stuffed into the bird but cooked separately. Getting salmonella is not good and besides the stuffing is usually done way in advance of the turkey. A lot of times the little kids and big kids are hitting the stuffing before the main meal is even served.

In our house we make a lot of stuffing but for some reason it is all gone by the next day.
We must be doing something right. I hope you like this recipe.

Pumpkin Roll

Why not change things up this year and do a Pumpkin Roll for Thanksgiving? Just make sure you have a pumpkin pie on stand by in case things don’t turn out as planned. Joking!!!
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