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Comforting Chicken Noodle Soup

Ingredients
5 cups of chicken stock (or water)
Chicken thighs, cooked or uncooked and chopped (I used 3 to 4…depends on their size.  You can use breast meat, or whatever you’d like)
3 to 4 garlic cloves, peeled and minced
1 onion, peeled and diced
3 to 4 carrots, diced (I like a lot…you can use 2 if you’d like less)
3 to 4 celery, diced (same as carrots, use 2 if you’d less)
2 to 3 parsnips, diced
2 small red potatoes, diced 1 bunch of kale, chopped (or other dark leafy green of choice)
1/4 cup of uncooked pasta (I used quinoa swirls.  You can use rice instead, too)
1/4 cup parsley
2 teaspoons, sea salt
1 teaspoon, pepper
1 to 2 tablespoons, butter
1 to 2 tablespoons, cinnamon

Directions

1. Dice all veggies (garlic, onion, carrots, celery, red potatoes, kale, parsley) and chicken.  Set aside garlic, parsley and kale.
2. Add broth, onion, carrots, celery, red potatoes and chicken, if uncooked and salt to a pot and boil.  Once boiled, cover, reduce flame and let simmer for 20 minutes.
3. After 20 minutes, add uncooked pasta.  Continue to simmer for another 8 to 10 minutes.
4. Add garlic, parsley and kale.   Let simmer for another 5 minutes or so.
5. Once done, add in 1 to 2 tablespoons of butter (I always add some healthy fats to my soups so I can absorb the fabulous nutrients better!) and cinnamon (I always add cinnamon ever since I had chicken soup from Whole Foods when I was studying nutrition in NYC.  I never found the actual recipe, but I fell in love.  It reminded me of Thanksgiving!  Try it if you’d like!).
6. Place soup ever in your favorite serving dish.
7.  Turn off all distractions, sit down by yourself or with your family, take a few deep breaths, say how much gratitude you have for your food, your family, your life and dig in, slowly and savor the deliciousness!

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Renee C. Yemma, Holistic Health Coach.  She is a mother, writer, teacher, coach, photographer and so much more.  To receive weekly healthy living articles on loving delicious, nutritious foods and putting YOU first without feeling guilty about it, visitwww.reneeyemma.com.

Comforting Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe is a post from: TasteForCooking

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Watch, Chat, Participate, and Ask Your Questions

For the first time ever, the Food Network will have a rare special get-together of their top chefs with this year’s Thanksgiving holiday. Bobby Flay, Rachel Ray, Sunny Anderson, Alex Guarnaschelli, Melissa D’Arabian, and Alton Brown will all be in the kitchen cooking everybody’s favorite starter, main, and side dishes while answering your questions. The show will air on  Sunday, November 20, 12 pm to 2pm EST. Hey, it’s still not too late for you to throw in your burning questions that these chefs will try to answer live via the Food Network Channel.

You could send your questions through:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FoodNetwork
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23FNThanksgiving with the hash tag FNThanksgiving.
You could also post your questions at the Food Network blog with this link:Food Network Blog: http://blog.foodnetwork.com/fn-dish/2011/10/18/thanksgiving-live-questions/

If you like to send in your questions through live voice call, you could:

E-mail the Food Network producers who are currently looking for Skype viewers and callers who would like to be a part of their show. Send them your name, location, email, home telephone number, Skype name, and your Thanksgiving question and a Food Network producer might contact you for further information. If you get picked, you get to call in your question to the chefs and ask about perennial Thanksgiving problems you frequently encounter and the chefs might be able to help you in a jiffy. Send your e-mail at:  thanksgivinglive@foodnetwork.com.

With this special Live! broadcast of the Food Network, fans and holidaymakers will get to enjoy the signature dishes that the chefs will cook and contribute as they work on their own kitchens. The attending chefs will then all celebrate together and get a taste of the dishes they’ve all shared to the dining table. Food guru Alton Brown is the lucky one who will have the honor of curving the turkey.

So if you have any persistent meal-making questions regarding Thanksgiving, hurry now and make sure you get to participate in this rare chance of having your problem solved quickly by star chefs through Food Networking Thanksgiving Live! And don’t forget to spread the word to your friends and loved ones about this once-in-a-lifetime chance of interacting with Rachel, Bobby, Sunny, Alex, Melissa, and Alton.

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If you are planning on purchasing a gift basket from Harry and David, there are a wide variety of options to choose from in all different price ranges.  They offer different baskets which include different wines, cheeses, fruits, meats, chocolate, or anything you can fathom as a gourmet treat.  Their baskets are synonymous with corporate Christmas gifts, and a treat which many people look forward to once a year.

If you are looking to purchase from Harry and David for yourself, and are looking to save some money, be sure to check out the link on their website for sale items.  These will usually include post-holiday items, or last season’s leftovers.  You can purchase great, quality treats for yourself for up to 50% off their regular price.  For people who are regular customers at Harry and David, you may often be sent special seasonal promotional discounts.  These will offer you deals on some of their best sellers, free shipping, or $10 off when you make a $75 purchase.  You can search the internet for these coupon codes, and enter them into the website at checkout to receive a discount if you are not a regular shopper.  The average customer can save just over $10 by using these coupon codes.

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Chicken Stroganoff

There is nothing easier than setting the Crock Pot up and dinner cooking while you are off doing everything that we do on a regular day. It give you piece of mind to know that your family will have a nice warm dinner to come home to and it will not be rushed. Here is our favorite Chicken Stroganoff recipe.

Makes: 6-8 servings   Prep: 20minutes     Slow Cook: 6-7hrs (low heat) or 3- 3 ½ hrs (high heat)

Ingredients

2 pounds skinless, boneless chicken breast halves and/or thighs

1 ½ cups chopped onion

2 ounce can condensed cream of mushroom soup

2 cloves fresh garlic (pressed)

1/3 cup water

12 ounces dried wide egg noodles

1 8 ounce carton dairy sour cream

Freshly ground black pepper

Make It

1. Combine in 3 ½ -4qt slow cooker cut chicken and onion.

2. In medium bowl stir soup and water. Pour over chicken and onion in slow-cooker

3. Add 2 cloves pressed garlic

4. Cover and cook 6-7hrs (low heat) 3-3 ½ hrs (high heat).

5. Cook noodles as directed from package. Drain.

6. Right before serving, stir sour cream into slow-cooker mixture.

7. Serve stroganoff over hot cooked noodles.

8. Sprinkle freshly ground black pepper

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Candy Corn and Pretzel Bark

Ingredients

• White chocolate
• Pretzels
• Candy corn
• Dried cranberries

Preparation

Line an 8-inch square baking pan with parchment, leaving an overhang.
Spread 8 oz melted white chocolate in the prepared pan and sprinkle with 1 cup miniature pretzels, ½ cup candy corn, and ½ cup dried cranberries.
Chill until firm.
Remove from pan and break into pieces; serve.

We also have our own Candy Bark recipe if you want to check it out!
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Recipe: York Peppermint Pattie brownies

Preparation

Prepare a 19-oz. box of brownie mix.
Spread half the batter in an oiled 8-inch square pan.
Top with 16 York Miniatures Peppermint Patties (12.6 g each), leaving borders of batter.
Spread remaining batter on top.
Bake according to directions on box.
Cool and cut into 16 squares.

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Recipe: Dulce de leche and Snickers terrine

From Real Simple

Ingredients

• 14 Snickers Fun Size Bars
• 2 pints softened dulce de leche ice cream

Preparation

Line an 8-by-4 ½ inch loaf pan with parchment paper, leaving an overhang.
Cut 14 Snickers Fun Size Bars in thirds (17 grams each; about 1 ½ cups total); arrange on bottom of pan.
Top with two pints softened dulce de leche ice cream.
Press gently to settle the ice cream.
Freeze until firm; 6 hours.
Invert onto plate and slice.

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Recipe: Frozen Reese’s banana pops

Real Simple

Ingredients

• Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
• Bananas
• Chocolate (melted)

Preparation

Halve 2 bananas crosswise.
Insert a stick into each piece.
Freeze the bananas and 4 Snack Size Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (21 grams each) for 2 hours.
Chop frozen candy.
Coat frozen bananas in 6 ounces melted chocolate; sprinkle with the candy.
Freeze on a parchment-lined plate until firm.

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Recipes for leftover candy : Candy Corn and Pretzel Bark, York Peppermint Pattie Brownies, and more is a post from: TasteForCooking

Institute of Culinary Education instructor Anne Burrell is among the contestants most familiar with Kitchen Stadium, having worked there as a sous chef for Mario Batali. Burrell’s experience dicing and slicing beside Batali in battle may give her an edge of over her Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs peers. That she hosts Food Network’s Secrets of a Restaurant Chef proves she has extra tricks up both sleeves.

49-year-old Michael Chiarello has been known to serve wood grilled chops of grass-fed lamb, Gulf prawns and 21-day dry aged prime rib-eye at his micro-regional Italian eatery Bottega in Napa Valley. The super chef is also the host of Food Network series Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello.

Chuck Hughes is another very familiar face from the upcoming season; this Canadian super chef is both co-owner of Montreal’s Garde-Manger and host of Cooking Channel program Chuck’s Day Off. Hughes proved his worth last year when he got the best of Iron Chef Bobby Flay, which fans know the challenger doesn’t win often in the tough arena.

Perhaps the best known of the contestants is behind the same face which appears at the center of the new season’s main press photo: Robert Irvine. The star of both Restaurant: Impossible and Dinner: Impossible owns Hilton Head Island restaurant Robert Irvine Eat!, and – as if that weren’t enough – his experiences under the high pressure of televised competition also include a stint on Worst Cooks in America.

The exciting series premiere of The Next Iron Chef Super Chef is set to take place October 30th at 9pm on the Food Network, when the floodgates of culinary talents will open and the cutthroat competition will officially begin.

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