About this time of year, I begin pulling tattered and stained recipes from an old recipe box. I know each Thanksgiving recipe by heart, but my math can get kind of fuzzy, so I double check quantities. My mind can wander, so I double check to make sure I have a list of all the ingredients for the feast. Despite…
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Mountain Strong Chili
We’re Texan. Which makes us chili people. Some of our favorite recipes include: Chipotle Chicken Chili The Bestest Darndest Chili Chili Ike Bison Chili Vegan Chili {I know, right?} We love all kinds of chili, but serving chili for Thanksgiving? It’s never been done ’round here. But, we are also Mountain Strong people. Inspired by an incredible story of hope…
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Thankful: A House Concert with Christa Wells {CD Giveaway!}
The scene could have been any Saturday night. I’m in the kitchen with a stained dishtowel thrown over my shoulder arranging figs and grapes and softened Brie on the plain white serving platter I’ve used for nearly a dozen years. Music starts and my breath falters. The familiar melody was not new to these walls; I listen to the…
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Let’s Talk Turkey
Friends, I present to you the best Thanksgiving turkey ever…the Greenberg Smoked Turkey. On the flight home from The Relevant Conference Sunday evening, I scribbled out my “to do” list thinking it would be a beacon in my imminent re-entry fog. At the top of this list, in a sleep-deprived trance, I wrote: ORDER Thanksgiving Turkey Hold that thought, I’m…
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Thanksgiving Recipes
About this time of year friends start asking what I’ll be serving for Thanksgiving. At the top of the most-requested recipes are Cranberry-Jalapeno Salsa and Gene Stallings’ Twice Baked Potatoes. I’ve posted all our favorite Thanksgiving Day recipes before, but here they are in one place. You can also also browse through the Holiday Favorites category which lists the archives…
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Our Thankful Journal
Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5: 16-18 November 1st begins one of my favorite annual traditions. Since the Littles were very little (as opposed to their current moderately little status) we have kept the tradition of a Thankful Journal. Each day, the Littles…
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