Today I’m printing a recipe for brined turkey and Savory Herb Gravy. The brining process takes 12 to 24 hours, starting with a thawed turkey, so if you want to try this, plan accordingly and add extra time to your preparations. Next week we will finish up with a couple of light dessert recipes.

For the next four weeks leading up to Thanksgiving I will be offering recipes that I feel would be good to serve on the holiday.

In honor of Halloween on Saturday, today’s column features two gruesome recipes: Finger Food (string cheese made to look like real fingers) and Strained Eyeballs (made out of hard-boiled eggs).
The kids will love these and they are a healthy balance to all the candy. Have a safe holiday.

The current cold weather has me thinking of using my slow cooker to have a nice warm dish ready to eat when I get home from work.

This week I’m featuring two more recipes from “Miserly Moms”, a cookbook that shows you how to make dishes at home and save money instead of buying them already made. I would rather spend a little more time in the kitchen and save money at the store. Today’s recipes are for two entre mixes: spaghetti sauce mix and taco spice mix.

This week I’m featuring two more recipes from “Miserly Moms”, a cookbook that shows you how to make dishes at home and save money instead of buying them already made. I would rather spend a little more time in the kitchen and save money at the store. Today’s recipes are for two entre mixes: spaghetti sauce mix and taco spice mix.

Now that the weather is getting cooler, nice, warm one-dish meals sound good. I have a couple of ideas using beef and chicken

Save today’s recipes for the next time lobster tails and jumbo shrimp are on sale. They are both easy recipes using few ingredients and they taste great.

Here are two more recipes from “Miserly Moms”, a cookbook that shows you how to make dishes at home at a fraction of the cost of buying them already made. You may want to spend more time in the kitchen and spend less money at the store. Today’s recipes are for desserts: funnel cakes and nonfat brownies.

Save today’s recipes for the next time you need to serve punch and finger foods to a large group. The punch is great and fairly easy to make and the meatballs would be super easy if you used pre-made frozen meat balls.

This past Saturday, Aug. 8, was “Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Night”. If anybody left you some that is why. When people have had a bumper crop of any summer veggie there is always the problem of how to use them up.

In these tough economic times, you may want to spend more time in the kitchen and less money at the store. These recipes are for granola bars and soft pretzels snacks.

July 30 is National Cheesecake Day. In honor of that day, I am passing along a mini cheesecake recipe and a low-fat cheesecake recipe.

Since July is, among other things, Baked Bean month, Hot Dog Month, National Ice Cream Month (tomorrow is actually National Vanilla Ice Cream Day) and July Belongs to Berries Month, I’m printing recipes for Hawaiian Baked Beans and Franks and Vanilla Berry Ice Cream Pie (which does not involve an ice cream maker).

Today’s column features a recipe for a cake I sampled recently that is great. It is baked in a 9x13-inch pan and will be the hit of the next covered dish you take it to. I’m also printing a good coleslaw variation. Hope you are enjoying the summer.