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Mom’s Chile Con Carne Recipe

Prize-Winning Chili Con Carne RecipeThis is my mother’s prize-winning chili con carne recipe. This recipe can be made in a skillet or crock pot, or made in batches and frozen. Variations include turkey chili, chicken chili, and vegetarian chili. Make it as mild or hot as you like.

Best Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Recipe

Best Oatmeal Raisin Cookie RecipeThis is the best recipe for oatmeal raisin cookies that I’ve ever tried. It’s easy and can easily be modified to make oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal cranberry cookies, low sodium cookies etc.

Bayside Marina

Bayside Marina, BaysideThe Bayside Marina in Bayside, Queens – great for pier and shoreline fishing.

Oakland Lake, Bayside

Oakland Lake, BaysideOakland Lake lies south of Northern Blvd. adjacent to Springfield Blvd. in Bayside, Queens, basically forming the backyard for the Lakeside Apartments complex. It’s a legal New York State freshwater fishing venue stocked with bass and carp, catch and release only year-round. There’s a wide foot path surrounding the lake, lots of benches, resident and migratory water fowl, huge bull frogs, and tons of turtles and raccoons.

Tanger Outlets in Deer Park, NY

Tanger Outlet Mall in Deer ParkThe Grand Opening of the new Tanger Outlet Mall in Deer Park on Long Island drew a good crowd and made for a good day trip from New York City.

Around Atlanta, GA

Atlanta skylineQuick Things to Do and See around Atlanta, GA. Plantations, Coca-Cola Enterprises, the CNN center, tour Stone Mountain Confederate memorial, the Cyclorama…

Ghost Hunting in Salem, MA

Salem, MAThe city of Salem, Mass. is a great place to visit any time of year. But it shines in October when spooky events and festivals abound. Salem is a witchy-place to begin with, but tourism really peaks at Halloween.