Tag: American

Watergate Salad

Watergate Salad is a crazy easy dessert invented by Kraft in the 1970s to promote their new pistachio pudding (go marketing). They called it “Pistachio Pineapple Delight” but somewhere along the lines it took on the name “Watergate” instead (it was the ’70s after all…) Anyway, my mom always whips up this […]

Holiday Cookies

Here’s a couple very easy cookies I experimented with for Christmas last year- no flour necessary! For both of these recipes, you can either use a roll of refrigerated cookie dough or a simple mix (but be sure to add the necessary water/oil/eggs as per the package directions). Double Peanut Butter […]

Brown Betty Sugar Pie

Between this post and Thanksgiving month, I’m debating adding an “American” food tag. I guess I just don’t typically think of foods as being distinctly American, but some of them are! Anyway, this is a recipe I found in an “easy college cooking” cookbook that is supposed to be a super-easy […]

Thanksgiving Leftovers: Turkey Salad Sandwich

So, I realize this is probably a bit late for everyone (sorry, been out of town), but hopefully it will come in handy next year or after your Christmas turkey…  Anyway, here’s one way to make a bit more ‘divine’ leftover turkey sandwich. [Prep: 15min / Cook: –] Ingredients – […]

Festive Dips & Appetizers

Got a couple last-minute guests joining for Turkey Day? We sure did (that takes us up to twelve for tomorrow, for those of you who are counting, hee hee). So, how do you materialize a couple more plates of food when the turkey is already two-days thawed? How about some […]

(Real) Pumpkin Pie

They say that once you’ve had pumpkin pie made with real pumpkin, that you’ll never go back to the canned stuff again. That’s probably true, but for OntheFly, I’ll say that once you’ve made a pumpkin pie with real pumpkin, you’ll see that it’s too easy to go back to […]