This post was submitted by ridgerunner.

Mix green beans with 1/2 cup almonds and the cream of celery soup and place in a greased casserole dish. Top with remaining almonds and bake at 350 degrees 25-30 minutes.

This post was submitted by Carly Anne St.Clair.

Put all ingredients in a bowl while they’re hot, add sauce, and mix.

This post was submitted by Terri.

Cut oranges in half and scoop out orange segment with sharp teaspoon or grapefruit spoon. In 3-quart saucepsn, combine all the ingredients. Heat to boiling and simmer until the cranberries start to pop and are cooked. Do not overcook; remove from heat when about 1/4 have popped.
When cool, spoon chutney into jars and refrigerate. Good with turkey, ham and/or chicken.

This post was submitted by Kaye Brown.

Editorial

I bought my turkey yesterday and am slowly but surely getting ready for Thanksgiving. How about you? Are you cooking for Thanksgiving or Christmas this year? If so, take a look at the holiday planning guides my friend Christine from Menu Planning Central has put together. I love the tips she shares in her guides as well as the to-do lists. She even shares complete menus and shopping lists for both Thanksgiving and Christmas.  I’ve been using her to-do lists and a modified version of her shopping list for a couple of years now and it really helps keep me organized.

You can buy the holiday guide for $20 here:

http://www.menuplanningcentral.com/holiday.html

or you can join Menu Planning Central and receive the guides as part of your membership.

http://www.menuplanningcentral.com/main.html

And since we’re getting so close to Thanksgiving, I thought I’d share last year’s special Thanksgiving Edition of the Hillbillly Housewife Newsletter with you. You can read it here:

http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/blog/?page_id=553

A big THANK YOU goes out to everyone that submitted a holiday recipe. The Holiday Recipe Section is still growing nicely and all the old recipes have been added to it.

Of course there’s still time to submit your own favorite recipes. Just click on the link below and fill out the form to share your family’s favorite Holiday recipes with all of us here at HillbillyHousewife.com.

Submit Holiday Recipes

That’s it for this week. As always, I welcome your comments and suggestions. Feel free to email me at susanne@hillbillyhousewife.com

Warm Regards,

Susanne - The Hillbilly Housewife

Inspirational Quote

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew. - Saint Francis de Sales, 1567-1622

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News From The HBHW Club

This is a new section of the newsletter. Each week I’m going to share some tidbits of what’s going on at the HBHW Club with you. I hope you enjoy these extra tips, recipes and ideas and of course would love to have you join the club.

As a HBHW newsletter subscriber, you can join for only $10 per month here: http://www.hillbillyhousewifeclub.com/special.html

And to make it even easier, I’ll let you try it out for just a dollar for the first 7 days.

Here’s one of the recipes that were submitted this past week.

Orange Date Bread

* 2 Tblsp. butter
* 1 cup sugar

* 1 egg, beaten with fork

* 1 large orange, juiced
* boiling water, enough to make 1 cup with juice from orange
* 1 tsp. baking soda

* 1 cup dates – chopped
* 1 orange rind – chopped

* 2 cups flour
* 1 tsp. salt

* 1 tsp. vanilla extract

* 1/2 cup chopped nuts (your choice)

Cream butter and sugar with mixer, then add beaten egg and mix together well.

Put juice from orange into separate bowl, add boiling water until you have 1 cup total, stir in baking soda.

Put chopped dates and orange rind in food processor or blender and pulse until chopped fine but not mushy.

Pour the orange juice mixture over the dates and orange rind.

Add this mixture to the butter/sugar mixture, then stir in the flour and salt.  Stir in vanilla, then add nuts and mix together well.

Put in greased loaf pan and bake for 1 hour in 300 degree oven.

And here are some of the other recipes that have been added in the past few days.

• Apple Sauce Walnut Bread
• Turkey Wild Rice Casserole
• Brewed Pork Chops
• Use-It-Up Beef and Potato Hash
• Easy-Does-It Spinach Lasagna
• Homemade Creamy Bacon Salad Dressing

All in all, we have over 230 new recipes in the member area already.

What else has been going on at the HBHW Club? We’ve been talking about planning Thanksgiving meals and sharing some of our favorite recipes, holiday gift ideas and finding inexpensive yarn for us knitting addicts out there.   I’m sure you have a lot to contribute to the conversation. Ready to join us? Try The HBHW Club for only $1. We’d love to have you! http://www.hillbillyhousewifeclub.com/special.html

Featured Article

Today I’d like to share an article on Once a Month Cooking with you by Peg Baron. OMC just didn’t work for either one of us, but we’ve both come up with ways to make homemade freezer meals work for us. I hope you’ll enjoy reading about and more importantly trying some of the cooking tips she’s sharing in this article.

Once a Month Cooking Just Didn’t Work For Us

Frugal Tips

Frugal Thanksgiving Decorations
Since Thanksgiving in the US is just a few days away, I thought I’d share some of my favorite frugal Thanksgiving decorating tips. Anything from pumpkins to fall flowers can be used to make a prett …

Grocery List
I make a grocery list with the following heading: Meats, Produce, Dairy, Can Goods, Frozen, & Misc: No Eat. In doing this I can get in and out of the grocery store without back tracking through t …

Frugal Vegetable Soup Mix
I keep leftover vegetables in a gallon bag in the freezer. When the bag is full, it’s simple to add hamburger or other meat and make a great soup or stew since the vegetables are already seasone …

Do you have a tip to share? Fill out the submit a frugal tip form and I’ll be glad to add it to the site and share your tip in an upcoming edition of the newsletter.

Recipes

Here are some of the most recent recipes that have been added to the HBHW site. Enjoy!

Pork & Kraut with Dumpling’s
3-4pd. pork roast, add 1 medium sliced onion,1qt.jar of homemade sauerkraut (or 2cans of sauerkraut),caraway seed, pepper&salt,1/2 stick butter or margarine,add water to the roast alittle less tha …

A Different Green Bean Casserole
1 lb frozen french cut green beans 1 can cream of celery soup or 10 oz of the homemade equivelant. 1 cup slivered toasted almonds Mix green beans with 1/2 cup almonds and the cream of celery soup and …

Sweet and Sour Chicken and Rice
Suggested ingredients and amounts (all are adjustable to your taste) 3-4 cups cooked rice 1 cup broccoli florets or peas 2-3 scrambled eggs 1-2 cooked and cubed chicken breasts (optional) 1 bottle swe …

Cranberry Chutney
4 small oranges 2 cups sugar (or sugar substitute) 4 cups fresh cranberries 1 cup chopped unpeeled apple 1/2 cup seedless raisins 1/2 cup chopped walnuts 1 Tablespoon vinegar 1/2 teaspoon ground ginge …

Delicious Beans and Potatoes
Make mashed potatoes. While they are cooking take cooked pinto beans, drained, cooked kidney beans, drained, or a mix, or leftover bean soup or leftover beans that kidney or pinto beans are in them, …

Do you have a recipe you would like to share? Click here to send it to me and I’ll be happy to add it to the website.

I’m Looking For:

This section is going to be all about you. If you are looking for a particular recipe or a tip on how to do something, submit it here and I will post it in an upcoming newsletter. I’ll give you my input and other readers of the newsletter will have the opportunity to share their recipes and tips as well. So take a moment to post your questions and of course if you have a tip or idea for any question posted in this section feel free to leave a comment under the appropriate post.

I’m Looking For Requests

Scratch Jiffy Cornbread Recipe
looking for a from scratch recipe for cornbread that tastes like the Jiffy brand. I’ve tried adding sugar to some recipes, but they still don’t taste similar. My son prefers this to sout …

In search of gluten-free lemon bars
Lemon bars are an economical sweet and have always been my favourite but now I must cook gluten-free meals (no wheat or wheat byproducts, read flour, etc., etc., - everything, especially prepared food …

Closet Damp Absorber
Hi Just wondering in any readers have any ideas on how to make your own closet damp absorber, you know the sort that collects the humid water in linen closets etc. Gayle This post was submitted by gay …

Egg Nog Recipes
I am looking for a variety of egg nog recipes out there. If you have a great traditional recipe, or one with a different twist or flavor to it, I’d love to hear about it. This post was submitted …

Homemade Johnson’s No More Bedhead spray
I have boys with thick hair that needs quick taming in the morning. Plain water isn’t controlling it. I sometimes use No More Bedhead or No More Tangles, but it’s too costly anymore. I won …

Cooking Turkey
Last year there was a post on how to use your oven as a slow cooker and cook a turkey overnight. My turkey turned out fantastic!! But, I lost my directions. Please help! This post was submitted by …

Chicken and Dumplings Recipe - Homemade
looking for homemade chicken and dumplings made the old- fashioned way.thank you. From Susanne - Here’s my chicken and dumplings recipe. My biggest trick is to start the day before by cooking th …

Sweet Potatoe Cassarole
I am looking for a sweat potatoe cassarole that has the marshmellowes on top and has a thick like syrup and fruit cocktail in it. my aunt used to make it but she passed away and no one remembered to b …

Pie Shell Cake
I’m looking for a recipe for a cake that was baked in a pie shell. It may have had chocolate syrup on the bottom. It was great and my kids loved it. Now I would like to make it for the grandk …

Removing Rocks in Beans
Does anyone have a method for removing all the pebbles from pinto & other dried beans? This post was submitted by Nancy.

I’m Looking For Responses
Below you will find some of the recent responses to the “I’m Looking For” Requests. You may also want to go directly to this section and browse through all the recent submissions and replies. To do so, click on “I’m Looking for” here, and start looking through them.

Comment on Homemade Johnson’s No More Bedhead spray by Ellen
If you just want to tame it and not remove tangles, try a little salt water in a spray bottle.

Comment on Reconstituting Powdered Milk by Debie
I don’t know much about powdered milk. Does it not cost more to use than purchasing regular milk? If it is cheaper, how do you get your family to switch over?

Comment on Apron Evangelism by Debie
Just wanted to say thanks for reminding me why I wear my apron!! Actually my daughter thought I wasn’t feeling well the other day when I didn’t put it on in the morning. Amazing how one gets in a ha …

Comment on Low Cal recipes by Nancy R.
If you search Diabetic recipes, and weight watchers recipes they are all low calorie. I did weight watchers for 2 years now, 1 year in meetings and 1 year on my own and am 10 lbs from my goal weight. …

Comment on Crockpot Cranberry Pork by ridgerunner
Comment for Joni… your recipe is so darn good!!! Fried Potato’s and onion’s on the side and hope to eat it all for yourself. I love to cook with pork, for that matter. The aroma this time of year is …

Comment on Indian Pudding Recipe by DE
Nadine - notice this site is titled “hillbillyhousewife”…probably not a place to spread enlightenment.

Comment on Closet Damp Absorber by brande
baking soda

Comment on Quick Sugar Cookies by Angela
These cookies are so good and easy to make. I did use real unsalted butter instead of margarine and increased the milk by 1/2 to 1 tsp. They turned out perfect. I will make these again, (as the fir …

Comment on Haitian Spaghetti Sauce by Nick
Try this recipe. It’s worked for me. http://i-jat.blogspot.com/2008/10/haitian-spaghetti.html

Comment on Chicken and Dumplings Recipe - Homemade by kitty wilson
I have always made mine by boiling the fryer with onion, celery and poltery seasoning as well as salt and pepper. I also completely cover the chicken and save some of the broth to freeze to use for …

Inspirational Story

THE SHIPWRECK

The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small,  uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him, and every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming.

Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him from the elements and to store his few possessions. But then one day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, the smoke rolling up to the sky.

The worst had happened; everything was lost. He was stunned with grief and anger. “God, how could you do this to me!” he cried. Early the next day, however, he was awakened by the sound of a ship that was approaching the island. It had come to rescue him. “How did you know I was here?” asked the weary man of his rescuers. “We saw your smoke signal,” they replied.

It is easy to get discouraged when things are going badly. But we shouldn’t lose heart, because God is at work in our lives, even in the midst of pain and suffering. Remember, next time your little hut is burning to the ground–it just may be a smoke signal that summons The Grace of God.

Final Thought

That’s it for this edition of the Hillbilly Housewife Newsletter. I hope you’ve had as much fun reading it as I had creating it for you. I also hope that you have found the information helpful and useful. And by all means feel free to forward the newsletter to family and friends or even better, encourage them to subscribe to it.

Do you have a question, a tip, a recipe or a story you’d like to share with us? Email it to me and I’ll include it in a future issue. Can’t wait to see what you have to say.

Warm Wishes,

Susanne - The Hillbilly Housewife

• Anything from pumpkins to fall flowers can be used to make a pretty fall center piece. Use what you have and get creative. Dig out a bowl or basket and fill it with anything from before mentioned small pumpkins or even some pretty fall leaves and pine cones.
• Many people associate the pilgrim’s hat with Thanksgiving. You can create a pilgrim hat out of terracotta pot, black felt, and some yellow paper. Determine the size of the brim by rolling the terracotta pot in a circle, marking the top and the bottom until you get a complete circle. Cut out the shape on both lines, and cover the pot and brim with black felt. Cut out a buckle out of the yellow paper. Glue the buckle on the covered pot. After the glue has dried, put a potted flower inside and place it in the center of your table.
• If you have plenty of apples, make them your center piece. Fill a bowl with them, or cut out part of the core on two of them and use them as candle holders. We are making some more turkey apples this year with the kids. It keeps them busy while the food is cooking and it makes for a cute decoration.
• Here’s another cute idea for the kids…let them create a Thanksgiving turkey out of a large paper grocery sack. Gather colorful fall leaves to use as the tail of the turkey. Fill the bag with crumpled newspaper and tie it off with rubber band to create the head. Draw on wings. Create a waddle and legs from construction paper. Glue the leaves on the flat part of the bag as tail feathers. Glue the waddle and legs where they belong. Don’t forget to give your turkey eyes.

This post was submitted by Janet Ellis.

thanks!

This post was submitted by Cheryl.

This post was submitted by Lesley Prince.