Haven’t finalized your Thanksgiving menu yet (or want ideas for Christmas)?  Here’s ours: Since my daughter doesn’t care for turkey, we love to serve this glazed ham.  The picture doesn’t do it justice – it is the BEST ham we’ve ever had. We don’t have a bird to stuff so we make these savory and [...]

Do you cook with beer?  I love the depth of flavour that it adds to so  many recipes.  Recently, I went shopping at The Beer Store here in London, Ontario and checked out the many varieties to find just the right one for these delicious bread pudding recipes.  There was a fantastic selection and the [...]

Don’t you just love Thanksgiving?  It’s such a wonderful time to get the family together and take stock of all your blessings, especially before the rest of the holiday craziness sets in.  Thanksgiving dinner has to be my favourite meal of the entire year, but the post-dinner food overload feeling isn’t always the greatest.  That’s [...]

1)  What US president gave the first national Thanksgiving proclamation?  George Washington 2)  What is the average weight of the turkey served at Thanksgiving dinner?  15 lbs. 3)  What US statesman first suggested the turkey as the official bird of the United States?  Ben Franklin 4)  How long did the first Thanksgiving last?  3 days [...]

It’s another holiday and you know what that means here on Cynchronicity Live – that it’s time to test your knowledge with a holiday trivia quiz!  Answers will be shared tomorrow! Flickr, martha_chapa95 1)  What US president gave the first national Thanksgiving proclamation? 2)  What is the average weight of the turkey served at Thanksgiving [...]

  Ingredients: 16 oz. softened cream cheese 1/2 cup sugar 1 tsp. vanilla 2 eggs 1 – 15 oz. can pumpkin 1 tsp. cinnamon 1/2 tsp. each nutmeg, ground ginger, ground cloves pinch of salt a 9 inch graham cracker or chocolate crumb crust 1 cup cranberry sauce Instructions:  In a large bowl, mix together [...]

Ingredients: 6 slices bacon, cooked until crisp and drained, reserve the drippings (according to my daughter and her boyfriend, everything’s better with bacon!) 2 2-4 lb. pie pumpkins 1 tsp. salt ¼ tsp. coarse black pepper ¼ cup packed brown sugar 2 tsp. fennel seeds, crushed 2-3 green onions, sliced on a diagonal Directions:  Preheat [...]

Ingredients: 4 cups heavy cream 2 tsp. vanilla extract 16 egg yolks (you wanna make brulee, you gotta crack a lotta eggs!) ¼ cup brown sugar ¾ cup white sugar 1 tsp. ground cinnamon ¼ tsp. salt ¼ tsp. ground ginger 1/8 tsp. ground cloves 1 cup canned pumpkin puree ¼ cup white sugar Instructions:  [...]

Easy and Delicious Pumpkin Swirl I posted this two years ago but it’s such a delicious recipe and my all time favourite pumpkin recipe in fact, that I thought I’d share it again.  This pumpkin loaf, similar to a jelly roll, is my most requested recipe.  Every fall I get calls from each school/office I [...]

My daughter’s first Hallowe’en, age 4 months Pumpkins are pretty popular this time of year so I thought a “pumpkin week” would be appropriate.  I suppose I should begin this post with a confession – I hate pumpkin pie.  I have this thing about texture, you know?  Love the taste of bananas, can’t eat fresh [...]