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Every year on Cape Cod and the islands different towns hold what they call a Christmas Stroll. Basically it is a little mini-festival where they have carolers roaming the streets, retailers serving fresh mulled cider and craft fairs abound. It is a nice little tradition that was mainly started to bring in some tourists during the off-peak season on the Cape.
I was able to attend a Christmas Stroll on Nantucket a couple of years ago with a few friends of ours and we had a ball. We bundled up and strolled through the cobblestone streets of Nantucket and were left completely in the spirit. We stopped to listen to the carolers who were decked out in their old style New England outfits complete with bonnets and knickers. We sipped some warm cider that was being freshly prepared. We even stopped by the craft fair and picked up a few little odds and ends for stocking stuffers.
It was truly the only way to do your holiday shopping.
Taking time to get yourself into the spirit is a really great way to get yourself to have a healthy holiday. So often we find ourselves running from store to store with the best of intentions trying to get every last thing that all the good little boys and girls on our lists wanted this holiday season. The holiday spirit is easy to lose.
This holiday season, make it a point to get out and about and enjoy the holiday spirit. Bundle up in a big winter coat (usually it’s cold by this time of year where I am anyway), lock arms with your favorite person and go for a stroll.
If you’re town doesn’t do anything like a Christmas Stroll, do a little research and they may have a tree lighting ceremony or a performance of a Christmas Carol. Even if you can’t find any organized celebration, bundle up and go for a walk around your block and marvel at the tremendous light displays that all of your creative neighbors have come up with. If that doesn’t get you in the holiday spirit we’ll have to start calling you
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November 27, 2010 by
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Cooking Thanksgiving Turkey and Turkey Leftovers
The festive season brings with it both joys and stresses. And the place where the tensions are often most evident is in the kitchen! If you want to avoid being harassed over the holidays, a modicum of thinking ahead can avert potentially fraught situations. Planning your healthy Thanksgiving recipes is the first step. You’ve got the recipe for cooking Thanksgiving turkey But what to do with the turkey leftovers? Turkey a la King is a great way of producing an entirely new meal with the previous day’s turkey. Turkey Burgers with Coriander, Soy and Pickled Ginger also ring the changes and give a slightly fusion twist to a traditional recipe.
Ground Beef Casserole Recipes and Simple Chicken Recipes
However, November is not ALL about Thanksgiving! We all have three weeks of meals to produce before then. This needn’t be a chore if you plan wisely. The trick is to try and get another meal out of a main meal. For example: Shepherd’s Pie Recipe on one night will easily make a reappearance as a glamorous Meat Pie Recipe, complete with light puff pastry. Oven Baked Whole Chicken as a main meal could become a delicious Chicken Pasta Bake with Pesto Sauce and Parmesan Crust. Your Best Grilled Salmon Recipe could then double as Fresh Salmon Croquettes. So, you can see, that with a little monthly meal planning, putting nutritious daily meals on the table needn’t be too onerous.
Fresh Pumpkin Recipes
Autumn Meal Planning wouldn’t be complete without an offering of Pumpkin Recipes. Of all pumpkins, Butternut Squash is my favorite for its intense, nutty flavor. Using vegetables that are bountiful at this time of year makes sense if you are trying to
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November 27, 2010 by
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A few years ago my mother started a caroling party in her neighborhood around the holidays. Right around Thanksgiving the invitations would go out and everyone would be asked to bring a healthy dish of food for the pot luck style party.
It started out small, with just a few of the neighbors attending and singing, but it turned into an annual event that drew most of the neighbors to sing and those that couldn’t make it to sing were treated to a group of singers that were belting out their favorite carols. It got so popular that people would start asking about it in November and even my sister would travel from hours away just to participate and let my nieces have the experience.
I don’t think anybody involved would argue with me if I said that they weren’t classically trained singers, but that didn’t matter one lick, because they all thoroughly enjoyed the season and sharing the spirit of the holidays with their neighbors.
As a true believer in the power of music to lift ones soul and improve ones health, I think this is one of the most important things to add to your healthy holiday traditions. Just listening to your favorite music throughout the year can have a tremendous impact on your happiness and your mental health, but caroling takes that to another level.
When you sing your favorite songs not only are you exercising muscles that you typically don’t exercise you’re also lifting your spirits. You know the feeling when you’re riding in your car, you don’t think anyone is looking, so you turn up your favorite song and sing at the top of your lungs. Don’t you feel better after you do that? Now add your favorite holiday songs to the mix and imagine the spirit that will be rushing through your body.
You might not be able to gather a large group of people together to go for a caroling party, but maybe you can gather a couple of family members around an mp3 player and sing along to your favorite carols while enjoying each
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