This is a super simple addition to Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner. It also makes for a great addition to your post Thanksgiving sandwiches. 1 pound fresh cranberries Grated zest and juice of 1 orange ½ walnuts (make it better and substitute Pecans) 1 c sugar, or to taste Combine the …
Cornbread Dressing (we call it stuffing, but we don’t actually stuff the turkey at all. Also there seems to be some ongoing debate about the bread you stuffing should be made from. In my personal opinion, cornbread is the only answer. ½ c dark raisins ½ c cognac (more if …
I started with the original Martha Stewart Recipe. However, she includes parsnips, onions and carrots and stuffs her turkey with stuffing. We have simplified by getting rid of most of the vegetables and simply stuffing the turkey with apples and onions. We then trash the apples and onions before we …
My Journey to a Traditional Thanksgiving In order to make this happen I needed two things. First, a practice run. Second, a friend who was willing to come clean out the turkey. Because, gross. Let me digress for a moment here, and explain. I grew up in a house that …
November in Texas is one of my favorite months. It finally almost feels like fall. We can sometimes justify wearing a sweater. If we remembered to coat them with “Mop & Glo” we still have our pumpkins and fall decorations out, without the ghosts and plastic skeletons. Granted, some people …
Romantic Dinner night is probably our oldest standing tradition. Its first Facebook documentation was August 19, 2009; it might have gotten a mention on MySpace, but we have long since deleted that account. More important than the longevity of our social media accounts is that Romantic Dinner has been around …
Do y’all remember Webkinz (those adorable stuffed animals that granted you access to the magical online world of kids’ gaming… https://www.webkinz.com)? Shannon was really into them around the time Caroline was born; as a family we actively supported her passion and maybe got addicted to playing a little “Cash Cow” …
(If you don’t hear Tevey from Fiddler on the Roof singing it, you’re doing it wrong) “We don’t even have an ELF on the Shelf,” was my first thought to the suggestion that I write a blog about all the Cesarz (Texas Edition) traditions. Except for Rico, we don’t have …
Yesterday I put on pants. That’s not something anyone would normally consider remarkable or noteworthy, but it’s 2020 and I haven’t put on pants that weren’t preceded by an adjective such as “pajama,” “yoga,” or my personal favorite “daytime pajama” in at least 7 months and 18 days. I went …
I’m going to start by giving a huge shout out to the amazing church family and Sunday School class we have! When I look at our party invite list well over 70 percent of them are from Trinity Presbyterian Church. While they might be church people, they are also delightfully …
