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Abigail Makes Garden Dip

I am not a cook.  But I can make a great dip. I call dip making my niche on cooking. I've never had a dip recipe that I could not make. The other day I found a recipe for a Garden Sausage Dip that can be made with jimmy dean sausage. Ever the cleaver “want to be cook”, I decided to make this most delicious dip.
To my surprise like most dips that I make this one turned out fantastic. If only I could eat dips instead of meals.


Abigail


Garden Sausage Dip
Prep Time:20 minutes
Cook Time:40 minutes
Ingredients
1 pkg. Jimmy Dean® Premium Pork Regular Roll Sausage
1 pkg. (8 ounces) cream cheese, cubed, softened
⅔ cup (about 3 ounces) shredded Parmesan cheese, divided
½ cup mayonnaise
½ cup sour cream
¼ cup milk
1 pkg. (10 ounces) frozen chopped broccoli or spinach, thawed, drained
Baked pita chips or toasted French bread slices for serving


Directions
1.Preheat oven to 375°F. Cook sausage in large skillet over MEDIUM-HIGH heat 8-10 minutes or until thoroughly cooked, stirring frequently; drain. Place in large bowl.
2.Add cream cheese, ½ cup Parmesan cheese, mayonnaise, sour cream and milk; mix well.
3.Stir in broccoli; spoon into lightly greased baking dish. Sprinkle with remaining Parmesan cheese.
4.Bake 30-40 minutes or until hot and bubbly.
5.Serve with chips.

Abigail Loves the Bee Gees

Darling, I just want to be your everything……
I love the Bee Gees especially Andy Gibbs. There is something about their lyrics that soothe a lover’s soul. I was in the supermarket yesterday and the Bees Gees came and I couldn’t help but to sing along. I spent an hour pushing my grocery cart around singing.
Abigail

Abigail's December

I love December. It’s the month of my birth and my favorite holiday, Christmas. December is the most wonderful time of the year. I always look forward to December beginning in January.
This year is especially grand. I will celebrate my 48thbirthday. This year like most, I will have a early lunch around !!:30 at Olive Garden then spend the day at the Barnes & Noble and maybe a few hours at Catos.
It’s what I call a  perfect day in the life of Abigail.    

Abigails Joys of Christmas

The joys of Christmas find me this December 13, 2015, sitting at my kitchen table enjoying a slice of toasted sour dough bread slathered with sour cream and strawberry jam. The stockings have been hung by the chimney with care and the house is alive with the beauty of Christmas.
Sloshing down my second cup of coffee, I just realize that for the first time in a long time there is a toddler in the house. Ayden-Noah is 17months old and the joys of Christmas have taken over.  Ayden-Noah has opened gifts, shook all the ornaments off the Christmas tree in my bedroom and oohed and oowed as the lights came on Thanksgiving night and I love it.
Once again I find myself with a little one to pass on Christmas traditions and it’s as much a pleasure this time as it was the first time around.


Abigail

The Joys of Abigails Christmas

The joys of Christmas find me this December 13, 2015, sitting at my kitchen table enjoying a toasted sour dough bread slathered with sour cream and strawberry jam. The stockings have been hung by the chimney with care and the house is alive with the beauty of Christmas. Sloshing down my second cup of coffee I realize that for the first time in a long time there is a toddler in the house. Ayden-Noah is 17months old and the joys of Christmas have taken over.  Ayden-Noah has opened gift, shook all the ornaments off the Christmas tree in my bedroom and oohed and oowed as the lights came on Thanksgiving night and I love it. Once again I find myself with a little one to pass on Christmas traditions and it’s as much a pleasure this time as it was the first time around.  Abigail

Abigails Christmas Table

I love to decorate my dining room table for the Christmas holiday. Each year after Christmas I decide what the next years setting will be. It’s so much easier to decide on a tablescape when things are on sale the day after Christmas.
Abigail

Abigal Wraps Christmas Gifts

Wrapping Christmas presents is a chore for me. While I enjoy buying gifts, I hate to wrap them. When I first discovered gift bags my heart soared. But over the years I began to miss the excite of watching as those I give gifts tear open the Christmas wrap.
So, this year I invest 10bucks in a class for wrapping presents. While I am not perfect at gift wrapping, I did learn the basics and I am as excited as a kid as I wrap my presents this year.
Abigail

Abigail Christmas Cheer

The best part of Christmas is sipping hot chocolate and watching a roaring fire.

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Abigail's Offical Start of the Chirstmas Holiday Season

I love to decorate for Christmas.  Upstairs downstairs and all around me are signs of Christmas. I am an early decorator. My Christmas trees go up each year without fail on Thanksgiving Morning.  The rest of the house follows when guest arrive for Thanksgiving dinner. It is with a great sense of pride that as we all sit around and enjoy dessert I flip the switch and the Christmas holiday official begins in the Chase household.
Abigail

Two Trees for Abigail

I often sit in my living room and marvel at the beauty of my two wonderful Christmas trees.
When my kids were younger, each year they made the most wonderful ornaments in elementary school. Over time Hunter and Shelby developed quite the collection of school crafted ornaments. My once well-coiffed Christmas tree became a missed matched bundle of crafts made my two favorite people.
The kids are older now yet, my mind always goes back to when they were younger. One of my now beautiful coiffed trees was once a missed matched bundle of handmade and store bought ornaments. As the ornaments get older, I laminate them to ensure they have a longer life.
The greatest joy of Christmas for me is to sit in my living room and marvel at the beauty of my Christmas tree.
Abigail