Looking for a Recipe for Thanksgiving? Look No Further!

I have put together "The Ultimate Thanksgiving Planning Guide and Recipe Book".  It has over 20 recipes including the most requested recipe in my kitchen for the best turkey.  It also includes the planning guide to get you ready for the holiday and a page for a shopping list.  

My grandmother's 2 crust apple pie is in there along with 3 other pie recipes, a great festive cheesecake recipe, a great pumpkin dessert with a streusel topping and all the sides.  Get your copy today.  The book is a direct download immediately following payment.  You pay for the book and you have it within minutes to start planning your Thanksgiving feast!!  For only $9.97 (plus sales tax if you live in Arizona of $1.05 - total $11.02) you will have it on your computer for easy archiving for next year.  Get your copy today - you will enjoy it and so will your guests.

Today I want to share a recipe for Pumpkin Dip.  This is great to serve while guests are arriving and waiting for the turkey, ham, potatoes, stuffing and all the other things baking and they are starving.  It is great for Thanksgiving or anytime you want to serve pumpkin.  I hope you enjoy it!

Pumpkin Pie Dip 

1 8oz package cream cheese, softened 

2 cups confectioners’ sugar 

1 15oz can solid pack pumpkin 

1 T. ground cinnamon 

1 T. pumpkin pie spice 

1 t. frozen orange juice concentrate 

1. In a medium size bowl, mix cream cheese and confectioners’ sugar until smooth. 
2. Gradually mix in the pumpkin. Stir in the cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice and orange juice until smooth and well blended. 
3. Chill until serving time. 
4. Serve with ginger snaps, shortbread cookies, vanilla wafers or other cookies. 

Makes about 4 cups of dip.

Have a great Monday !

Charlene S Reed, Author

"The Ultimate Thanksgiving Planning Guide and Recipe Book"

Thanksgiving is Less Than 2 Weeks Away

OK guys -- Thanksgiving is less than 2 weeks away and you need to make sure you have all of your plans in place.  Don't worry, I've got your back !!  I have put together "The Ultimate Thanksgiving Planning Guide and Recipe Book" to help you with every step of your planning and cooking.

This book will help you plan your Thanksgiving and it includes recipes for everything you will need:

• Turkey (the BEST you will ever have - people who have this at my house always want the recipe before they leave),
• Ham (people ask for this recipe all the time),
• Homemade Macaroni and Cheese,
• Homemade dinner rolls,
• 3 different homemade pies including my grandmothers apple pie recipe,
• A great, festive cheesecake recipe,
• Bread stuffing recipe that is my own -- people love this one,
• Cornbread dressing,
• Homemade cranberry sauce -- have you ever made fresh cranberry sauce? It is great!
• From scratch applesauce,
• A fabulous streusel topped sweet potato recipe that people love,
• and so much more including tips for keeping your potatoes warm without drying them out and other great ideas.

You really need to get your copy today!!  I have had people offer me $20 just to tell them how to make the turkey -- now you can have that same turkey recipe and all the others plus a planner and a place to add your shopping list for less than half that amount.

On another note, writing is something that I really enjoy doing and I really want to have other books just like this in the next few weeks for year end events and parties -- all with great ideas and recipes.  Continue to read this blog and watch for them.  Help support my dream of being a great writer and sharing my recipes with people who share my other passion -- cooking!

This book is only going to be available for a limited time.  Once it comes down from this site, it is gone -- possibly forever so get your copy today ! !

Thank you !

Charlene S. Reed, Author

"The Ultimate Thanksgiving Planning Guide and Recipe Book"

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” - Howard Thurman

It's a Great Day to be Alive !

The sun is shining and we have each other !!  Come on - let's move forward.  Look to the future and make it great!  You still have a choice -- you can be happy or choose to be miserable.  I choose to be happy in whatever situation I am in.  My situation is bleak right now but I see light at the end of the tunnel. 

I am ready to market this book and my other coming books and make a living writing, something I love to do - write.  The first of many books, "The Ultimate Thanksgiving Planning Guide and Recipe Book", has everything in it that you would need to make your entire day a great, never ending feast from breakfast casseroles all the way through dessert - pies, pumpkin dessert and cheesecake.

If you want to have recipes for Thanksgiving that your family  will enjoy and request year after year, these recipes are what you are looking for.  

Come on, join me in having the best Thanksgiving feast ever.  Let's start with a great spinach salad recipe for today.  This is not included in the book but an extra.  the 'Buy it Now" is on the top of this blog on the right side.  Get yours today!!

Spinach Salad with Dried Cranberries, Walnuts and Pomegranate Vinaigrette 

1/2 cup pomegranate juice 

2 tablespoons white wine vinegar

2 tablespoons olive oil 

2 teaspoons Dijon mustard

Salt and ground black pepper 

6 cups baby spinach leaves 

1/3 cup dried cranberries 

1/3 cup walnut pieces 

In a small container with a lid, combine the pomegranate juice, vinegar, oil, and Dijon mustard. Seal and shake to combine. Season with salt and pepper to taste. 

Place spinach on a serving platter and top with dried cranberries and walnuts. Pour vinaigrette over spinach and serve.  Yield:  4 servings

Hope you enjoy this recipe and go buy the book, please -- you will love it !!

Thank you !

Charlene Reed, Author

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T.S. Eliot

I am the one who is going to see what is out there and how far I can go!  Today I am releasing the much anticipated "Ultimate Thanksgiving Planning Guide and Recipe Book".  

The book is chock full of great recipes for Thanksgiving including 2 breakfast casseroles that you can make the night before and just pop in the oven in the morning for a quick and easy breakfast for guests.

You will also find the planning guide for getting ready for all of your family and friends who are showing up for dinner on Thanksgiving.  I have included recipes for a feast - turkey (the best you've ever had), ham (you won't believe how good it is), casseroles, homemade cranberry sauce, applesauce, pies and so much more.  

Included on the last page is a convenient shopping list so you can jot down the items you will need to purchase to make your Thanksgiving feast.

Remember all those recipes that you have requested over the years and I always told you they were a secret?  NOT anymore!!  They are all included in this book - over 20 recipes that I serve every year in my home to all of my friends and family.  

Get your copy today so that you can start planning your Thanksgiving feast and tell your friends so that they can get their copy too.  This also makes a great gift for people who have never hosted Thanksgiving before, people who want to try something new or anyone who just wants to have great recipes to impress their family and friends.  

These recipes are so good and yet make cooking fun and easy. Once you try turkey this way, you won't want to go back to any other way.  It is absolutely amazing how moist and tasty it is.

On the top, right side of this blog is the buy it now button for a direct download.  Make your Thanksgiving memorable and amazing !!

Join me on this blog between now and Thanksgiving for even more tips and decorating ideas.  

Have a great day !!

Charlene S Reed, Author

"Ultimate Thanksgiving Planning Guide and Recipe Book"