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Ever wondered how to cook leather breeches or collard greens? …or how to make red-eye gravy or apple dumplin’s?

Find recipes for all these and more at:

The Table of Our Ancestors –Old Time Southern Recipes, part of the free online Tennessee genealogy project “TNGenWeb”

There’s even a whole section on possum …and you never know when that info might come in handy!

Blessings and happy cooking,

Denese

Tags: genealogy, possums, recipes, southern-cooking, Tennessee

How To Make Homemade Enchiladas –Learn how to make authentic enchiladas with this 30 page, illustrated ebook from Penny Raine.  This newest ebook in Penny’s Creatively Simple series is normally $5.95, but you can get it for free through this Wednesday.

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: Cooking, free e-books

Do you have a sweet potato that has sprouted?

Pinch the sprouts off and stick them in a water-filled vase or jar –the vines will continue to grow and make a beautiful trailing houseplant.

We used some old Sprite bottles as vases (don’t throw those glass jars and bottles away!) and the green glass really brightens up the winter view.

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: frugal-decorating, houseplants, recycling, sweet-potatos

More recipes…

Head over to Smithfield Foods and get your free Holiday Hosting Guide from Paula Dean plus find something delicious to make in Paula’s Recipe Collection –over 200 recipes in all!

Blessings and happy cooking,

Denese

Tags: Cooking, free e-books, holidays, recipes

Not to be outdone by Betty Crocker, Pillsbury has some free goodies too!

Free calendar:

• Free Pillsbury 2010 Calendar –Register as a member and sign up for one or both of the newsletters: “Pillsbury” and/or “Cooking 4 Two”

Free digital magazine:

• Free Pillsbury Pies Digital Magazine –Pies, tarts and more. Read it online or download to your computer.

More recipes:

• Pillsbury Recipes –All kinds of recipes from appetizers to pies, even more when you become a member.
• Pillsbury RSS Feeds –Get “Today’s Recipe” in your feed reader or subscribe to one of the forum feeds.
• Pillsbury Bake-Off –All about the Bake-Off, monthly challenges, how-to videos and award winning recipes from past Bake-offs.
• Pillsbury Baking –Recipes, baking basics, tips and more.

Free coupons:

• Pillsbury Coupons –As a member, get free printable coupons for General Mills products –possible savings of $14 this month.

Doughboy fun:

• Fun With The Pillsbury Doughboy –Send a dancin’ Doughboy email, watch Doughboy TV ads and bloopers, get the Desktop Doughboy.

These last two weren’t on Pillsbury.com, so I’m not sure if these are “official” or not:

• Pillsbury Doughboy on Facebook 
• Pillsbury Doughboy on Twitter

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: baking, coupons, Facebook, freebies, recipes, Twitter

Become a member at BettyCrocker.com and get all kinds of freebies!

Free calendar and recipes:

Free Betty Crocker 2010 Calendar –Sign up for one or all newsletters; Betty Crocker, Dinner Made Easy, Bisquick

You can also subscribe to the recipe of the day feeds:

• RSS Feeds From Betty Crocker –Recipe of the Day, Cookie of the Day, Healthy Recipe of the Day, Cereal Recipe of the Day and Lunch Recipe of the Day

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Free coupons with membership:

• Coupons From Betty Crocker

Over $11.00 in savings are possible this month on Betty Crocker Frosting, Bisquick, Chex Mix, Green Giant Vegetables, Progresso Soups and many more. Membership is free.

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Get a free baking ebook from Betty Crocker Kitchens and Gold Medal flour:

•  Whole Wheat Baking

Note: This is an online ebook but it can be saved to your computer as an executable file or zipped pdf.

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How about some free cereal? Enter the giveaway for a chance to win:

• The Great Cereal Giveaway

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Get more savings, freebies and giveaways from Betty Crocker:

• Betty Crocker Promotions

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Want more?

Are you on Facebook?

• Become a fan of Betty Crocker on Facebook

Can’t leave out Twitter:

• Follow Betty Crocker on Twitter

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You might also like:

Download a classic cookbook for children:

Betty Crocker’s Cookbook for boys & girls (1975) –Basic cooking techniques and simple recipes for a variety of dishes, free from the Internet Archive.

 

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: baking, coupons, Facebook, free e-books, freebies, giveaways, recipes, Twitter

Free Printable Recipe Cards –Over 100 different designs to download and print in two sizes: 3×5 or 4×6; pdf format.

Recipe Cards, Shopping Lists, Gift Tags & To Do Lists –Country-style recipe cards and matching shopping lists, to-do lists and gift tags from Original Country Clipart from Lisa. 13 designs –even some for chicken lovers!

Printable Recipe Cards from bellybytes.com –Another nice collection of free recipe cards in various sizes and styles. Be sure and check out the “Thanksgiving Blessings” style –it’s so sweet!

Free Printables from Dreamworks Designs –Small collection of cute, country-style recipe cards, shopping/to-do lists and printable labels.

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: Cooking, free printables, free recipe cards, organizing, recipes

Fresh Homemade Sausage

1 pig or hog*

Coooold weather

Legg’s Old Plantation Pork Sausage Seasoning #10 -8 oz. bag seasons 25 lbs. of meat, price is about $2.50 per package (or your own sausage recipe)

Butcher the pig

Cut your meat up, add extra fat (anywhere from 5 to 8 parts meat/1 part fat )*

Grind the meat and fat together

Add seasoning –add extra red pepper if you like it hot/more sage if you like it sagier

Mix, mix, mix and mix some more

Fry a test piece

Adjust fat and seasoning if necessary

Eat –yum!

Freeze or can.

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Canned Sausage

Fry sausage in balls

Pack in hot pint jars

Pour grease over sausage (divide evenly between each jar –should be about an inch of grease in each)

Put lids on the jars and turn upside down

Let cool completely and store in cool place

*Note: A hog is just a BIG pig!

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Blessings,

Denese

*Update: I should have noted -If you don’t cut the fat off your meat, you shouldn’t have to add any extra fat.

Tags: canning, recipes, sausage

Old Fashioned Taffy –Illustrated 1 page article on how to make old fashioned taffy… yummy fun for the whole family! Free pdf download from Joyous Home.

Christmas Candy Wreath –Learn how to make a candy wreath with this free ebook and video from Living On A Dime. Great for any holiday, birthday party or festive event …just use the same colors of candies that match your decorations!

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: candy, crafts, free e-books, recipes

Thanksgiving Planners For Everyone

Holiday Planning Book  –Make your own holiday planner with a little help from Ocean Spray –just choose the sections and topics that you want to include in your ebook and click “create”.

YumSugar Thanksgiving Planner  –Basic 1-page planner.

Free Thanksgiving Menu And Planner  –Thanksgiving shopping list and recipes from Leanne Ely, 7pages.

    –Includes 3 different menus, tips and activities for younger and older children. Compliments of  www.MenuPlanningCentral.com. 

Free Thanksgiving Planner –Nice little 8 page planner in notebook format. Ebook includes blank calendar; pages for the menu, guest list, seating arrangement, notes and ideas; recipe cards and shopping list. Some of the pages can be used as Thanksgiving notebooking pages.

How To Dance Through Thanksgiving  –This extensive, 27-page report from Common Sense Living contains: tips for starting early, a housekeeping plan, shopping lists, menu planning, checklists, recipes and more.

Thrifty Thanksgiving Ebook  –Tips and ideas from Money Management International for a frugal Thanksgiving; including planning, decorating, traveling, stretching your Thanksgiving dinner, leftovers, traditions and much more.

Thanksgiving E-Cookbooks

Martha Stewart Thanksgiving Hotline Recipes Cookbook  -Collection of 30 recipes from Martha Stewart, Emeril Lagasse, Nigella Lawson, Jean-George Vongerichten, Mario Batali and many more. Download the full ebook or individual chapters.

Thanksgiving With Diabetes Cookbook –17 delicious low-carbohydrate Thanksgiving recipes from DiabetesDaily.com. You must create an account (free) to download ebook.

Healthy Thanksgiving Recipe Ebook –Sign up with Quality Health and download this little ebook of 21 healthy variations of Thanksgiving recipes.

Taste Of Home Thanksgiving Cookbook –Free digital edition of Taste Of Home’s October/November 2009 Complete Thanksgiving Cookbook edition. Very large file –44.4MB. More past issues available.

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: Cooking, free e-books, holidays, organizing, printable forms, recipes, Thanksgiving, time management