This is the beginning of some very delicious artichoke dip. Meanwhile, make some bacon for your potato skins. After the twice baked potato fiasco of 2010, we were wary of potato skins, but it ended OK. Also, cut up 18 …

We’ve only got 8 recipes left folks! We’re in the home stretch, now! This Saturday, we’ll knock out two more by making The Pioneer Woman’s braised beef brisket and the burgundy mushrooms. Both recipes will require an entire day of …

For Thanksgiving, our friend Jen did us a huge favor and agreed to handle this flat apple pie recipe for us, while we busied ourselves with turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, prune cake and red velvet cake. Bless her heart, she …

9:15 am: This morning has gone relatively smoothly. We’ve made two trips to the car, three from the car, and managed not to spill anything (yet.) We measured the oven (thanks Jen!) and determined that yes, the turkey WILL fit. …

The oven schedule, above the oven.

So in case you haven’t gathered yet, MAC is GF (gluten free.) Because of this fact, she couldn’t come over to bake with us, but we had video-conference with her. First, we had to make a red velvet cake for …

This was the list of ingredients, so we could figure out what we needed to buy. These are things that we needed to bring to Becca’s from Melissa’s house.

Things we learned while making PW’s chicken fried steak and fried cube steak: 1. It is extremely difficult to find 3 pounds of cube steak in any grocery store in L.A. I went to at least 3 before I found …