Halloween has come and gone and now we are in the month of November already! This year sure has flown by! This month is all about the beginning of the holidays, Thanksgiving! Personally, I am very excited. I love Thanksgiving. All the different kinds of foods and the family time. Its just so "ahhh" relaxing. A nice break from life, don't you think? So, I've developed a bit of a plan...
Starting today, each Saturday leading up to Thanksgiving I will be making a special themed post. The dishes on Thanksgiving. The types of foods you see when you gather around that table with your loved ones. What a better way to kick off this adventure than with dessert first??
I don't know about you guys but one dessert my family always has on the table is Pumpkin Pie. Every holiday season, Pumpkin Pie. Take a look at this recipe from Paula Deen!! I think it looks soo delicious with the cream cheese and pumpkin!! Yum! It looks to be similar to a cheesecake almost. I'm sure the cream cheese and pumpkin make for an absolutely creamy devine dessert! Who wouldn't love that?! The reviews for this recipe states to maybe make sure the butter and cream cheese are at room temperature before using them, that way you wont have little white flecks in your filling. If cream cheese or butter is too cold, it will ball up into tiny balls and it won't mix together as well. Give it a try and maybe even have your kids help out too! 
Moving on...Another popular dessert (surprise) is another pie! Pecan Pie of course!! I remember my grandmother always had one of these on the table at our family gatherings. As a kid, I didn't ever try it cause I just knew I wouldn't like it. However, these days I've been trying new things and with my "adult palate" I'm finding I like things better now that maybe I wouldn't touch when I was a kid. I think Mr. Tony Neely has the right idea to make me like this dessert...Chocolate Pecan Pie!! I love love chocolate! This recipe has great reviews and looks very simple to make! Fairly quick to put together, then stick it in the oven and let it do it's thing!! It also has an accompanying recipe for Homemade Whipped Cream! Yum Yum!! I might just try this one for myself! : )
Now, what kind of Thanksgiving would it be without an apple dessert? Most popular is Apple Pie. However, since we've already covered two pies, why don't we change it up a bit? Our next and last scrumptious dessert is indeed Apple Crisp!! I think that is equally as good, if not better than, Apple Pie!! Check out this recipe from Allrecipes dot com!! This is a very simple, basic version of Apple Crisp. If you want to, you could even throw in some secret ingredients of your own. Being a veristile dish, you can really make it how you want it to be. If there are certain spices you think would be great, try it...If you wanna add some more fruit with the apples, maybe try some raspberries, strawberries or peaches!! Mmm! Add a bit more cinnamon if you really love it!! I bet you could use that Homemade Whipped Cream the Neely's listed in their Chocolate Pecan Pie recipe to go ontop of your Apple Crisp. Of course, you can't have Apple Crisp without serving it with Vanilla Ice Cream!! Maybe try some Natural Vanilla Bean Ice cream! I also enjoy mine best when its either fresh out of the oven or reheated a bit first : )**The recipes I posted were not my own, I do not claim any rights to them. They are linked directly to the site where I found them! Same goes for their photos, they are from their sites as well**
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