Soups Stews And Chili - Luscious Lima Bean Soup

This wonderful vegetable and lima bean soup lives up to its name. You must allow 1 1/2 hours of simmer time, and the lima beans must be soaked for two hours prior to cooking, but the results are well worth the time.

Side Dish - Thanksgiving Beets

Hearty beets, cooked with a spicy glaze, are a delicious side dish that can be frozen and used later, if you like. Just cook them, then bag them up for the freezer.

Fresh Figs Isolated

fresh figs on the wooden table

Jingle Juice

Jingle Juice

Cheese - Weeknight Chicken Cordon Bleu

Chicken breasts are wrapped with sliced ham and Swiss cheese, and baked in a creamy chicken soup sauce.

Fruits And Vegetables - Rose Hip Freezer Jam

The rose hips in this jam are uncooked so the jam tastes fresh and sweet; it retains its bright rosy-orange color. The hardest part is seeding the hips which can be sticky, but so worth it! Use wild or cultivated rugosa roses that haven't been sprayed with pesticide; pick them in the fall when they are bright red. I adapted my recipe from one in a Euell Gibbons field guide.

Ripe Pomegranate Piece

Ripe pomegranate piece isolated on white background