Variety is the Spice

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Holidays Gifts

If you are looking for something for a special friend or family member, you have come to the right place. Just click on the images on both sides of this blog and you will be taken right to the Etsy shop of your choice to see a large and varied selection of wonderful things. Go ahead... give a click.

All Creatures Great and Small - an Etsy Treasury

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Treasury created by spongetta.

A Tour of Fall Foliage

A last hurrah before the first snow! A street in Delavan, WI, mid November.

The Recipe Corner - Homemade Applesauce

Sometimes the best things in life are the simplest.  For years my grandmother and I made this together every fall.

Peck of apples (preferably Cortlands)
1/2 cup of water
Pinch of cinnamon

Quarter, core and slice apples into heavy bottomed pot. Pour in water and bring to boil, turn down and simmer until all are mushy.  Run through the larger blades on a food mill discarding the peels.  The pink color comes naturally.  Add cinnamon if desired.  Will keep up to a week in the fridge and freezes well so you can make it now and enjoy it for Thanksgiving.

Recipe compliments of Spongetta.

The Recipe Corner

Garlic with a Side of Chicken 
(adapted from a recipe in Everyday Food that I have long since lost, so it may not resemble it anyway)

1 or 2 heads of garlic, smashed, peeled, and coarsely chopped
1/2 cup olive oil
Lemon sliced into rounds
8-10 skinned chicken thighs
Fresh chopped tarragon (parsley and basil work well too)

Heat garlic in pot with olive oil.  Bring to bubbling then simmer 10 minutes.  Allow to cool.  Toss oil with chicken, lemon and herbs. Season with salt and pepper.  Let sit a half hour.  Heat oven to 400.  Dump chicken mixture into a roasting pan and bake until cooked through, turning once, about 40 minutes.

A great entree for even the most picky eater.

Recipe compliments of Spongetta.

A Tour of Fall Foliage

Blue sky, yellow leaves and all wrapped in sunlight: the perfect Autumn day Long Island. This was taken in Rockville Center, New York, a town about three miles from mine.