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A cornucopia of tasty fall recipes from your home to ours

South Sound cooks pull out all the stops for Thanksgiving, creating old family favorites and new takes on autumn foods. Here are some additional recipes submitted by readers and appropriate for fall and winter family holidays.If you would like to share a favorite seasonal recipe, you can add it to the comment section, and we'll add it to the list.

Thanksgiving recipes: From your home to ours

We asked readers to send us their favorite Thanksgiving recipes and we were rewarded with more than 50 recipes that spanned everything from no-dairy pumpkin pie to lime Jell-O salad to wild rice with chanterelles and stuffed acorn squash. We don’t have enough space to print all recipes here, so we selected a dozen to feature. Of those, we declared five to be the newsroom favorites for this year’s reader- contributed Thanksgiving recipe section. We tested those five recipes in a home kitchen and found that the recipes will be sure winners for your Thanksgiving table. The authors of those recipes will receive cookbooks for their recipes.Do you have recipes you would like to share? Add them to the comment section of this story, and we’ll put them in the list. When your comment disappears, your recipe will appear in the list. You can also email your recipes to tmcgee@theolympian.com. Questions? Call 360-754-5447; Suggestions? Call 253-274-7380.

Rain grows great ingredient for brandy sauce

Few things in life are more nourishing than getting together with a group of old friends. Conversation flows, laughter comes easily and lives once again blend together in a way that satisfies our deepest needs.

Truth of the Tragedy

In Centralia’s Washington Park stands a statue commemorating the Nov. 11, 1919, deaths of four American Legionnaires who died “on peaceful parade.”

Quit for good in November

The Great American Smokeout will be Nov. 20 this year. On this day, the local Health Department and American Cancer Society challenge you to quit smoking cigarettes.

Little Creek offers $100,000 poker prize

One poker player will take home $100,000 from the Little Creek Casino on Saturday after winning the first Northwest Poker Tournament. The casino says the $100,000-guaranteed first prize is the largest ever awarded in Northwest poker history.

Special delivery

Soldiers in mechanic Good Adam’s squad could use laundry soap and boxer briefs.

Political ‘meddler’ to share experiences

Former legislator, congresswoman and self-described “lifetime professional meddler” Jolene Unsoeld will share her experiences and ideas on how to get involved in politics during a noon lecture today at the State Capital Museum in Olympia.

Olympia poet Lucia Perillo to read at Library of Congress

Olympia poet Lucia Perillo will join poet Tony Hoagland for a reading at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., on Thursday evening.

Birds and bees column conjures up memories for readers

It feels good to know that I’m not alone.