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PUMPKIN PIE CAKE DESSERT
This is a very easy and very delicious dessert for a crowd just in time for Thanksgiving.  Adjustments (ingredients in blue)  make this recipe – Real Food  or Nourishing Traditions friendly.

1-29 oz can pumpkin (Use fresh baked pumpkin)
1 cup sugar (Use raw honey or Sucanat or rapadura)
1 tsp salt (Specify Real, Celtic or sea salt)
3 tsp cinnamon
3 large eggs
1 Box Yellow Cake Mix (The ingredients in this box would scare you and so maybe just use good whole sprouted pastry flour)
1 large can Evaporated milk (Not sweetened condensed) (Use real cream)
1 cup pecans, chopped (soaked with a little salt the night before to remove anti-nutrients)
1 cup butter, melted

Combine the pumpkin, sugar, salt, cinnamon, eggs, and milk  and place in a 9 X 12 – inch baking dish.  Sprinkle one box dry yellow cake mix over the pumpkin mixture.  Sprinkle the chopped pecans over the top of the pumpkin mixture and dribble the melted butter over the top.
Bake at 350°F  for 50-60 minutes.  Serve with real whipped cream.

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Holiday Open House ebook – Open Your Heart and Your Home

Are you needing recipes, information and encouragement to get started? Are you wanting to learn how to graciously decorate with just what you already have on hand? Do you need some tried and true recipes?

I believe we women, wives and mothers need to purposefully plan to fullfil the biblical admonition of welcoming friends, neighbors and relatives to our home warmly but without major effort.

I have gathered up fast and easy recipes, ideas, and information collected by myself and my friends to help you get started.

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Some of the information in this ebook includes:

* How to Plan your Occasion, step by step, after the date is set

* How to Decorate Creatively on a Dime

* Planning the menu for your event

* Appetizer Recipes, both hot and cold

* Dip Recipes

* Serving Suggestions

* Sweets and Treats

* Marilyn’s Christmas Cookie Recipe Assortment

* Beverage suggestions and recipes

* Encouragement

One reader writes:

“Your e-book is very inspiring. Your decorating ideas and recipes made me feel more confident. I am going to try some of the recipes out on my family. Thank you for your words of wisdom. “

Another reader writes:

“I love your suggestions on simple centerpieces and the recipes look simple, but delicious. I have been looking for recipes for scratch vegetable dip and cheese dips for a long time. I will definitely use them.

I find the book very inspirational for those of us who have been reluctant to try an open house. Thank you so much. Donna

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Although I am invited out for Thanksgiving this year, some of the recipes in Happy Health Holiday Recipes look very intriguing to me such as the probiotic  apple and mandarin relish, and the sprouted spelt pumpkin pie crust. The bonus lesson and video are free.

Enjoy a healthy Thanksgiving holiday featuring the very best wholesome recipes Nourished Kitchen has to offer!

VIDEO: How to slow-roast a turkey to perfection
VIDEO: How to split, seed, roast and puree a pumpkin

MENU: Traditional New England Thanksgiving Supper
MENU: A Southern Thanksgiving
MENU: An Elegant Thanksgiving Supper for Six

RECIPES: Autumn salad with cider vinaigrette, green beans with shallots and bacon, roasted squash puree with cinnamon, mashed root vegetables, probiotic apple and mandarin relish, slow-roast turkey, reduction sauce, apple-nut crisp, coconut-cranberry bread, buttermilk tolls, green bean and mushroom casserole, candied yams, buttermilk mashed potatoes, honeyed cranberry Sauce, giblet gravy, sourdough dressing with walnuts and apples, pumpkin pie with sprouted spelt crust, pumpkin custard, maple-pecan yart, ambrosia, oyster stew.

Get the bonus mini-lesson for free!  1 Video Tutorial, 1 Menu, 8 Recipes.

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Enjoy!

Friday I posted my favorite Thanksgiving pie recipes .

Here is an even better pecan pie recipe, submitted by Nancy Dolph  for those who want to skip the corn syrup or are allergic to corn!

1 cup sugar (For real food advocates try using  Sucanat or maple syrup)
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp. vinegar
1 stick butter
1 Tbsp. vanilla
1 cup finely chopped pecans
1 unbaked pie shell

Combine melted butter, sugar, beaten eggs, vanilla, vinegar, and pecans.
Pour into unbaked pie shell.  Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes.

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Enjoy!

Last night I heard that grain prices are fluctuating up and down significantly because of poor harvests in Russia and Europe.  Sometimes these reports can cause panic buying especially when the prices are up.

If you buy grains and beans in bulk and store them in your pantry, you protect your family from excessively high prices.

You also can put together meals using what you have and staying out of the grocery store.   I always keep some cheeses, canned veggies, pastas, and fruits on hand to round out meals made  based on what I have.

So, I am posting the bulk grain and bean items I keep in plastic storage buckets or quart size canning jars in my pantry area downstairs.  Remember to rotate and use these foods regularly.  Only buy and store what you family enjoys and always store it as cool and dry as possible.

What other items do you keep in the grain,  bean, herb/spice category I have overlooked that your family enjoys?

Bulk Grains and Beans:  *Non-gluten grains are important to keep around

wheat

rolled oats or oat groats

*quinoa

pastry wheat

7 Grain Mix

*white and brown rice

spelt

*millet

barley

Kamut TM

kidney beans

green split peas

black beans

lentils

Spices I buy in bulk:

allspice

celery seed

chili powder

*dill weed

*dill seed

sesame seeds

oregano

cayenne pepper

cinnamon

curry powder

onion powder

paprika

*basil

cumin

ginger

nutmeg

*parsley

Real Salt

*thyme

turmeric

* I grow these in the garden, dry them myself and store in glass storage containers in a dark place.

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This picture has nothing to do with Homemaking Helps for Busy Moms, recipes, grocery shopping tips, but it was just so cute I couldn’t resist!  My grandson Job, just found his fingers can provide a little comfort between feedings.

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Whether life has been taking twists and turns and it feels like the mountains are shaking and about to roll into the sea or there is peace like a river in your heart right now, it is time to keep our eyes on the next thing.

That means the next thing to do that comes into our hands.  I found this quote by JR Miller, a popular Christian writer who died in 1912.  Among other writings, he wrote the book Homemaking which was originally copyrighted in 1882.

I quote:

“We are not to wait for opportunities to do great things -not to keep watching for some splendid thing which by its conspicuous importance may win for us the applause of men–but are to do always, moment by moment, the thing that comes to our hand.

It may be to speak a cheering word to one who is disheartened, to join in a child’s play, to mend a broken toy, to send a few flowers made more fragrant by your love into a sick room, or to write a letter of condolence.

It is the thing, small or great, which our hand finds at the moment to do.”

What small or great thing has come into your hand to do today?

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