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A Greek favorite that makes everyone think you are a master chef and is sooo easy to make!! I taught a Greek friend how to make apple pie and she taught me this fabulous recipe. The phyllo dough for this recipe is found in the freezer section of most grocery stores. Add a little lemon zest to the sugar sauce, if desired.

A delicious coconut cake made from a cake mix with coconut cream cheese frosting and garnished with toasted coconut.

Oranges are hollowed out and filled with mashed sweet potatoes, orange juice, eggs, vanilla extract and butter. A sweet, buttery pecan topping is spooned on top, and the oranges are baked. This is a sweet treat that’s impressive and tasty.

This cake is a real beauty covered with soft icing. You may substitute sherry for vanilla if you choose.

A delightful combination of two Autumn standards - apple and pumpkin - in this lightly spiced pie with a streusel topping.

This is a popular recipe along the eastern seaboard where maple syrup runs in March.

On October 5th, in Dobbins, California is the 10th Annual Beer Dinner at the Northern California Homebrewer Festival. This year’s theme is “Sour Ales Inspired by Belgium”. The menu looks spectacular. The Brookston Beer Bulletin is reporting that it’s already sold out. If you’ve got tickets, drop a comment here to let us know how it went. We’ll post your photos if you’ve got them as well (with a nice little photo credit, too!).

(via Brookston Beer Bulletin)

This traditional holiday drink is indispensable to those who covet the ubiquitous fireside family gatherings on cold winter evenings. This recipe uses an automatic coffee maker to brew the cider. If you don’t own one, heat it in a saucepan over medium heat on the stovetop. Grab your mugs and dive into this hot drink!

Oh boy! Coconut and chopped nuts are baked under a chocolate cake mix, and cream cheese is swirled into the batter.

This delicious, cream-like soup is served at our family’s dinner every year. Originally submitted to ThanksgivingRecipe.com.

It’s taken me several years to perfect this recipe. Now everyone asks, ‘When are you making the eggnog?!!’ This uses cooked eggs for safety, and you can use more or less rum to taste. It’s a bit of work to make, but well worth it. You’ll never buy store-bought eggnog again! Enjoy!

Hot, spicy and tangy chickpea side dish. This dish is quite tangy and spicy, reduce lemon and seasonings to fit your taste. Enjoy!

Wonderful salad for the holiday seasons. Great to serve for dinner at home or to take to a family gathering during the holidays. Originally submitted to ThanksgivingRecipe.com.

These are tasty, easy, and great on gift trays. They are also very decadent looking.

This is a great Christmas morning treat. Make it the night before and pop it in the oven in the morning.

A condiment with pizzazz! Process ginger to a consistency similar to horseradish. Serve with all meats, poultry, and fish as condiment, or use before cooking as marinade. If topped off with vinegar, it will keep for 1 year in fridge in a covered jar.

This is one of our family’s favorites at Christmas. It not only tastes great, it is beautiful on any holiday plate. This recipe is very simple and everyone will want to know how you made it.

A tremendous hot sauce that will spice up sandwiches, marinades, vegetable dishes — just about anything! Jalapenos are boiled, then blended smooth with canola oil, salt and pepper.

Creamy goodness! Originally submitted to ThanksgivingRecipe.com.

This is a traditional sauce to be served with Plum Pudding. Yummy served later on hot raisin toast.

Oriental Spicy and Sour Soup could be a light meal in itself, full of peppers, snow peas, water chestnuts, green onions, and tofu. Seasoned with sesame oil, red pepper flakes, and soy sauce, and lightly thickened with cornstarch.

The Corner Pub in Decatur, Georgia is hosting a Fall Flavors Beer Dinner on Sunday, October 7.

The Corner Pub Fall Flavors Beer Dinner
7:00 pm
$50.00 per person

Amuse Bouche - Roasted Fresh Figs and Gorgonzola
Small Plate - Seared Sea Scallops on Vanilla Yams with Brown Butter and Micro Greens Paired with Spaten Lager
Soups - Pumpkin and Parsnip Duo with Red Pepper Puree and Optimator Beer Bread Paired with Franziskaner Hefe Weisse
Main Plate - Beef Rouladen with Root Vegetables and Pepper Bacon on Braised Rainbow Chard Paired with Spaten Optimator
Dessert - Rhubarb and Pear Crumble with Marscapone Cream Paired with Franziskaner Dunkle
Send off - Coffee, Jameson and Chocolate Heat Truffle

Visit their website for more information.

Always requested at all my holiday gatherings, it is delicious beyond belief!

Pecans sauteed with onion, parsley, basil and ginger make plain brown rice come to life with rich, nutty flavor.

This candy recipe is very pretty on gift trays and tasty too. If cranberries are not on hand, dried cherries or raisins will work beautifully in this recipe.