Hello everyone and welcome to December! We are so grateful to be here in a nice cozy cottage today. I am looking forward to planning meals for the very busy season that we are in. It is during busy seasons that I enjoy being a meal planner because it saves me money, time, energy and my friends and family have a balanced meal at the cottage. We are putting the finishing touches on  our Christmas decorating, everything is looking so beautiful! 

  Welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 723 and welcome December! The Christmas spirit is everywhere we turn. We are putting the finishing touches on our Christmas decorations here at the cottage. There is that little kid in me that just love's the Christmas season. Our food is a big part of the celebrations and  I am sure looking forward to all the wonderful holiday links that you will be sharing today and in the next few weeks. Be sure and visit the  7th Annual Holiday Cookie Recipe Exchange  while you are here on the site. 

  Our Cheesy Broccoli Casserole is a delicious side dish that even the kids love. The recipe is made with fresh broccoli, a creamy cheese sauce with just the right seasons. It bakes in the oven until we have a nicely topped casserole. This lovely casserole can be frozen for up to 3 months. This casserole is a big winner every time!

I am so excited to welcome you to the 7th Annual Holiday Cookie Recipe Exchange Linky Party for 2024! I have enjoyed so many of your cookie recipes from the first 6 parties and I really treasure them. As I am making your recipes it reminds me of you and the special friendship that we enjoy in this very special blogging community. At the end of the party, we will have all shared with each other a memory and a part of ourselves that truly is a lasting gift. Thanks so much for sharing your cookie recipes with us, we cherish your cookie recipes and YOU!  I Can't Wait To Try Your Cookie Recipes, Lets Get Started!

  Hello everyone, we had an amazing Thanksgiving and I sure hope you did to. Sometimes after a big holiday feast I really don't' want to think about food for a while, but then I realize that my family may be hungry. By tomorrow we will be having freezing temperatures, so I am looking for warm cozy comfort this week. It will be fun to see what I come up with.

  Welcome to an early Thanksgiving edition of Full Plate Thursday, 722. Today we will feature our Top Ten Post from last weeks party as is our custom on  the last Thursday of the month. We are in a very busy season for all of our wonderful bloggers and I really appreciate you taking the time to share your amazing post with us each week. You are all very special to me and I count you among my many blessings! Hope you enjoy the party!

  Hello everyone, we are planning a very special Thanksgiving week here at the cottage. Some of our family is arriving today and by the big day we will have a full house. Meal planning is very important for me to stay organized, and have some great meals for my family and friends during a holiday time. We are a very traditional family and most of our Thanksgiving recipes have been a part of our family for a very long time. I have been stocking up for a while and have already started some cooking that is frozen and ready to go.  Happy Cooking To All of You!

  Welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 721 it is really good to see you here today. We are enjoying a wonderful fall with all the colors on the trees and the farmers markets with pumpkins and other fall vegetables. There are so many fall festivals there just isn't enough time to attend them all. We had a great party here last week and we are featuring some of those awesome post today. I sure hope you will stop by those bloggers and say hello! We have a  couple of very important announcements this week so be sure and read them, you don't want to miss out! Thanks so much for coming to the party today and enjoy the party!

At the end of the feast day, we stand and access the leftovers and then decide what to do with them. Through the years we have developed some of our families favorite left over recipes for Thanksgiving. The first thing we do is debone the turkey and place in 3 cup portions, then bag them in freezer bags. We freeze the bags and they are ready for our recipe any time. Boil the bones with some vegetables and you will have an amazing broth that you can freeze for soups and stews. These are great cost savers for your food dollars.

Hello everyone, great to see you here on the screen porch with me on this beautiful fall morning. Planning our meal plans is so much fun this time of the year with a bounty of the harvest. Can you believe that it is just one more week and we will be planning our meals for Thanksgiving. We have some house guest that will be arriving at the end of the week, we can hardly wait to see them! 

  Welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 720. We are so excited to see you here at the party today. We have a fire in the pit so come on around, it is such a beautiful fall day to enjoy together. Our party last week had so many delicious links, it is really hard to pick the features, but we have some great ones  today. I can hardly wait to see what you will be bringing today, thanks so much for sharing with us!

  This recipe for Baked Glazed Apple Fritters is a very special treat for any brunch or breakfast. We enjoy a great brunch or breakfast on the weekend when we can enjoy some time to relax and just be together. I just love making a  special treat for those times to give some extra love to my friends and family. This is a very simple recipe to make with just a few ingredients and doesn't take to much time. The flavors are amazing!

Hello everyone, it is meal planning day. I am excited to sit down with all of you and take a look at all the wonderful fall recipes. I have some wonderful fall and winter greens coming on in my Veggie Pod. I have kale and collards that will be ready for harvest very soon. I just love using fall and winter greens in special dishes.  We are having some rain so it sounds like a good week for some yummy soup, I am hungry already!

Welcome to Full Plate Thursday, 719 and the fun month of November! November is a true foodie month with so many warm comforting foods to bring to our tables. We had such a fun party last week and I have brought some of those awesome post to feature for our party today. I always look forward to Thursday and the excitement of sharing all of the goodness that you will be bringing to the table. Come on in and find your place at the table, we saved you a seat!