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An easy to make prune filling with pecans and a hint of spice.

Cake mix is combined with pumpkin and spices, then topped with cream cheese frosting.

This drink is probably the best drink I have ever had in my life! You make it with strawberries, sugar, lemon juice, ice, and lemon-lime soda. You can substitute red cream soda or your favorite flavor for the lemon-lime.

A yellow cake mix, spiced up with cinnamon and ginger, with pumpkin puree and chopped pecans.

A step by step recipe for making a baked potato. Serve with your choice of toppings. Try sour cream and chives, cheese, and olives.

If you like spice cake, this is very good. Even if your family doesn’t like Pumpkin, I promise they’ll never know there’s pumpkin in this delicious cake. Top with Cream Cheese Frosting if you like.

Tempting morsels of pork are wrapped in smoky bacon in this elegant dish.

Cranberries, apples, pears, and onion are seasoned with cinnamon and finished with lemon zest and almonds.

A healthy mix of vegetables and a lovely flavor earns this soup’s name well. Sensible and delicious, this will become a staple in your home. Cabbage, onion, carrot, celery, tomato, along with other vegetables coupled with onion soup mix, makes this a fant

This angel food cake is just like grandma use to make.

This hearty, pumpkin cupcake with a cinnamon-cream cheese frosting is good in the fall or any other time of the year.

This frozen yogurt is so much easier than homemade ice cream!

Raspberry sherbet floats in lemon lime soda, and you will float to heaven!

Iced tea and lemonade are a golfer’s best friend.

Canadian whiskey and orange juice poured over ice and stirred (not shaken)…oh, Canada!

Honey, mustard and a dash of barbeque sauce blend in perfect harmony in this simple dapper dipper sauce!

A majestic orange flavored cheesecake swirled with chocolate goodness. Orange liqueur may be substituted for the orange juice in equal amounts. These cheesecake not only looks fabulous, but the flavor will send you to cheesecake heaven.

A dense cake made with dates and walnuts, similar to a fruitcake.

This beautiful pastry looks like a complicated braid, but is simply created by crisscrossing strips of dough. This pastry is filled with brown sugar and walnuts, and finished with a powdered sugar glaze. Other fillings work well, too, and coffee is a delicious substitute for the water in the glaze

Potato soup in a jar is made with potato flakes and dry milk and seasoned with turmeric and thyme.

A beautifully festive cookie in a jar recipe. These make great gifts.

Lively sun-dried tomatoes and hearty portobello mushrooms are tossed with couscous in this satisfying entree.

It’s a shame that fruitcake as a species gets such a bad rap. With its two key ingredients - rum and butter - it ought to be a hit. This recipe includes dried fruit, instead of the glowing, candied stuff we’ve all learned to associate with fruitcake, and is less dense and more cake-like than many fruitcake recipes. It has become a favorite of my friends and family around the holidays (even the skeptical ones), and is delicious by itself, or covered with a layer of almond paste. Fruitcake is also traditional for wedding cake in England, and makes a very rich, sophisticated dessert for luncheons or teas.

This honey-tinged buttermilk wheat bread melts in your mouth. Eat this one hot from the oven.

The holidays will sparkle brightly when you whip up a batch of these chocolate favorites!