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Cranberries everywhere. I love cranberries and the best time to show these pretty red berries off is for Thanksgiving. 
Crnaberries have health benefits to: Cranberries May Improve Chemotherapy For Ovarian CancerScienceDaily (Aug. 26, 2007) — Compounds in cranberries may help improve the effectiveness of platinum drugs that are used in chemotherapy to fight ovarian cancer, researchers have found in a laboratory study. Read the story here, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070821143625.htm truly amazing and you know who created the cranberry?? YUP!! Thank you God for this wonderful delight!! American Indians introduced the earliest settlers to this small, hard, smooth-skinned, shiny red, round to oval-shaped wild berry that is also known by the names craneberry, bounceberry, bearberry, cowberry, or lingonberry. The Indians used the cranberry as both a food and a medicine. Sailors as well as settlers traveling westward used cranberries, full of Vitamin C, as a way to ward off scurvy. On long sea voyages, to keep the cranberries fresh, the sailors would store the berries in barrels full of water. Besides the Concord grape and blueberry, the cranberry is one of three fruits that are native to America. It is the fruit of a small shrub with trailing vines from genus Vaccinium that likes cold climates. It grows best in poor acid soil in flooded areas called bogs or on moors or mountainsides. Although grown throughout the world, Northern Europe and North America are best known for the cranberry. In North America, cultivated cranberries are grown mainly in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Washington and Oregon but can be found growing wild in bogs from Nova Scotia to North Carolina and westward to Michigan over to the west coasts of Oregon and Washington. Cultivating cranberries started in the early 1800s and it took many years of trial and error to discover the best techniques for cultivation. Once painstakingly harvested by hand, machine methods were eventually developed to enable more cranberries to be grown with less effort. Processing of the berries involved finding an efficient method for separating the good cranberries from the bad. As good cranberries bounce and bad ones don't, a mechanical system was devised for sorting that incorporated this unusual characteristic. Before 1960 most cranberries were sold either fresh or canned. It wasn't until the 1960s that the demand for cranberries started to exceed supply. This is when Ocean Spray introduced a drink called cranberry juice cocktail. Its instant success led to other cranberry-fruit combinations being developed like Cran-Raspberry, Cran-Grape, and Cran-Apple drinks. In fact, so popular are cranberry drinks that most cranberries grown today are processed for use in fruit drinks. Need a pretty topping to set out for pies, breads ect.?Take 1 pk of cool whip and 1 can whole cranberry sauce....... mix together, cool and there you go. So pretty and yummy too. Here is a bread pudding recipe I made this morning and wanted to share. Why bread pudding you ask, golly it is much easier then getting out the flour ect......and I always seem to have left over italion rolls or hotdog rolls, Instead of tossing them, I make them into yummy desserts for my family. 
What you need: 1 can whole cranberry sauce 2 apples, peeled and cut up 1/2 bg. chopped walnuts 1 pkg. cream cheese 1 cup sugar 1 tbl vanillia 1/2 cup cranberry juice 6 eggs 1 pk hot dog rolls dash cake spice 2 cups crunched vanillia wafers 1/4 cup melted butter How to make: In a lrg. mixing bowl combine cream cheese, cranaberry sauce, sugar, half of walnuts and vanillia until blended well. Break hot dog rolls into bite size pieces, add to mixture coating well, add cran berry juice, stir once more. (can use any bread, I prefer italion rolls) Pour mixture into greased baking dish. Topping: Arrainge apple slices, sprinkle on cookie pieces, remaining walnuts, drizzle melted butter and sprinkle on sugar. Bake at 350 for about one hour. It will be moist inside but not real wet. Let cool a bit. 
Serve warm or cold, top with cranberry whip cream and serve with cranberry apple sauce on the side! Yum 
Cranberry Crumb Pie This is not my recipe but one I found and thought it sure looked good and easy to make.  INGREDIENTS - 1 (9 inch) unbaked pie shell
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1 (14 ounce) can EAGLE BRAND® Sweetened Condensed Milk (NOT evaporated milk)
- 1/4 cup lemon juice from concentrate
- 3 tablespoons light brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 (16 ounce) can whole berry cranberry sauce
- 1/4 cup cold butter or margarine
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup chopped walnuts
DIRECTIONS - Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Bake pie shell 8 minutes; remove from oven. Reduce oven temperature to 375 degrees F.
- In large mixing bowl, beat cream cheese on low until fluffy. Gradually beat in EAGLE BRAND® until smooth. Stir in lemon juice. Pour into prepared pastry shell.
- In small bowl, combine 1-tablespoon sugar and cornstarch; mix well. Stir in cranberry sauce. Spoon evenly over cream cheese mixture.
- In medium mixing bowl, cut butter into flour and remaining 2 tablespoons sugar until crumbly. Stir in nuts. Sprinkle evenly over cranberry mixture. Bake 45 to 50 minutes or until bubbly and golden. Cool. Serve at room temperature or chill thoroughly. Store leftovers covered in refrigerate.
Beef Stroganoff Casserole
This seems to have alot of ingrediants but it is is worth it. This was so good my kids loved it and my kids do not like anything 
Ingrediants: 1/2 lb cubed beef cut up ( I use the tender cuts of meat and make my won cubes ) 1/2 lb hamburg 1/2 onion chopped 5 boulion cubes dash pepper 1/2 cup flour 1 cup frozen peas 1 cup frozen corn 1 cup frozen mixed veggies (your choice) 1 pk egg noodles 2 cups milk 1/2 cup sour cream 1/2 block white chedder ( shredded) 2 cups of crunched potato chips How to make In another Medium pot add hamburger, beef cubes, pepper and onion. Brown, add 1/2 cup water and beef boulion cubes. Turn on low and summer for 15 minutes or more. ( I use the tender cuts of meat and make my won cubes) do the next step right away:: In a small measuring cup add flour, add little bits of the milk until flour mixture is smooth. To the simmering meat ADD: sour cream, peas, corn, mixed veggies and stir in the flour mixture. Simmer until hot. ( this will make gravy) In a lrg pot add water to boil noodles, turn on high. Boil noodle until just tender, do not cook fully!! Drain noodles and rinse, Add Noodles to large baking dish, pour in meat mixture. Top with crunched chips and shredded chedder cheese. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes. YUM.
Susans Banana Bread Pudding. What to do with two bananas no one wanted to eat.........hum, I know!!!  Ingrediants Bread 2 ripe bananas 4 cups broken bread (I use Italian) 1/2 cup chopped pecan or walnuts (if your nutty add more) 1 1/2 cup Packed brown Sugar 1/3 cup Molasses
4 eggs 2 tblspoons vanillia 1 tsp allspice 2/3 milk Topping 4 Graham Crackers (Crunched) 1/3 cup butter or margarine (melted) 1/4 cup white sugar (topping) How to Do: In a nice sized baking dish add eggs, milk, allspice, vanilla, Mix well Add brown sugar and bananas
Mix again Add 1/2 chopped nuts ( save a few out for topping) blend Add bread chunks
Fold ... if to dry add a touch of mile, to wet? Add a few more chunks of bread
Topping.......... On top of mixture sprinkle on Graham Crackers, nuts and drizzle on melted butter. Then sprinkle white sugar Bake at 350 for about 1 hour, bread is done when it seems firm, insides will be moist.  I served mine warm with Carmel Ice cream. YUMMY!!!!
Susan's Yummy Sweet Potato Dish This recipes yields enough for about 8-10 people I am bringing recipes to you just in time for the Holidays, so check my blog often in the next couple of weeks. What you need: 3 16 oz cans of sweet potato (if in water drain most out) 1/2 stick of butter or margarine 4 apples, peeled and cut into chunks 1 1/2 cup packed brown sugar 2 tblspoon. of molasas (not a must but makes it so much rcher) 1 bag of Walnuts (you can chop or leave whole your choice) 1/2 tspoon nutmeg How to make In a small microwaveable bowl add butter, nutmeg and molasis. Heat for less then one minute stir until melted and blended. You can do this on the stove top too, in a pan. In a large casserole dish add apples Top with 1/2 chopped nuts and 1/3 of brown sugar Add potatos Tops with nuts, Sprinkle on the rest of brown sugar The pour the butter mixture on top Bake in oven uncovered for and hour or so at 350. They are so yummy!
Ok call me crazy but this was my breakfast! But I would eat them any time if I were you. You can serve these up any way you want to. I have served them with chili, sour cream and shredded chedder cheese. Or you can even make mini pizzas by adding pizza sause and cheese. 20 seconds in the Microwave and you got a nice warm melted snack!! 
Ok so here was my quick snack. 3 tostadas 3 heaping Tbsp. of salsa 1/2 cup of mexican Cheese add toppings in the order above, pop in microwave for 20 seconds top with Sour Cream!! YUM Great for parties and picnics too!! AND MOMS, LET the kids have fun with these too!! They can top them with anything!!
My twins, Claire and Andrew Celebrated their 7th Birthday on Sept. 9th. So we made a treat for them to take into school! Cup cakes, here arethe kids decorating them, they did all of them themselves!! There were lots of leftovers so they ate some afterwards! 
I have made this several times and love it. For a variation you can add what ever veggies you like. 
This recipe has: 1/4 cup Olive Oil Red Peppers (I use frozen, fresh can also be used) Green Peppers (I use frozen, fresh can also be used) 1 Onion 1 Zucchini 3/4 cup Bread Crumbs ( you may use more or less depending on how much you are preparing) How I made it: Peel Zucchini, remove seeds and slice into french fry shaped sticks Cut other veggies into strips as well In a non stick fry pan add olive oil Warm on medium heat Add veggies...... let them cook on medium heat for about 5 minutes. You may need to turn them over once. Turn them over once and add bread crumbs. Just sprinkle them evenly over the veggies. Alow them to fry in oil for a little bit, you have to keep your eye on this dish. Once you see it needing to be turned, turn them over using a spatula. Let them cook until browned, turn once more then remove from pan. Yummy, good!!! May serve with salsa and sour cream......... This recipe comes from my heart to yours..... I love to make up new recipes and share them!
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