Food, flowers and fun

Cranberries, pumpkin pie (with lots of whipped cream), deLysscious turkey, and mashed potatoes. Can you believe Thanksgiving is already upon us this month?

When I think of Thanksgiving, I think of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (cannot wait to take the kids), all the delicious food, the love of my family and the fellowship of friends. Sometimes after my family dinner I turn to my sister and say, “Happy SPANXGIVING!” (I will certainly need to be wearing my Spanx the next day.)

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I recently found the most FabuLyss, innovative farm-to-vase subscription service — Half & Half Flowers.

Manhattan’s premier, fresh flower delivery service seeks to beautify and inspire clients. Half & Half Flowers is a subscription service currently offered exclusively to Manhattan residents. Blooms are ethically and locally sourced within a 400-mile radius. Beauty and inspiration are at the forefront of this fresh-cut bloom biz.

Half & Half Flowers, www.halfandhalfflowers.com.

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Looking to see a new FabuLyssly Fun Broadway show? I loved “Holiday Inn: The New Irving Berlin Musical,” now playing at Studio 54. You will leave the show smiling from ear to ear.

In the play, based on the 1942 movie of the same name, Jim leaves the bright lights of show business behind to settle down in his Connecticut farmhouse, but life just isn’t the same without a bit of song and dance. Jim’s luck takes a spectacular turn when he meets Linda, a spirited schoolteacher with talent to spare. Together they turn the farmhouse into a fabulous inn with dazzling performances to celebrate each holiday, from Thanksgiving to the Fourth of July. But when Jim’s best friend Ted tries to lure Linda away to be his new dance partner in Hollywood, will Jim be able to salvage his latest chance at love?

“Holiday Inn: The New Irving Berlin Musical,” at Studio 54 [254 W. 54th St. between Eighth and Seventh avenues in Midtown, (212) 719–1300, www.broadway.com/shows/holiday-inn-new-irving-berlin-musical]

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Follow your heart straight to adventure at “Disney On Ice” with the family!

“Disney On Ice Presents Follow Your Heart” brings the record-breaking 2016 animated film “Finding Dory” to life, allowing families to join in the deep-sea adventure as Dory swims off the screen and onto the ice. “Inside Out” also makes its on-ice debut as Riley’s emotions — Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust — take the audience on an emotional roller coaster.

With “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” “Fantasia,” “Toy Story,” “Frozen,” and Mickey and Minnie Mouse, “Disney On Ice Presents Follow Your Heart” exposes children to the thrilling world of live entertainment by immersing families in an array of treasured stories.

“Disney On Ice Presents Follow Your Heart” at the Barclays Center [620 Atlantic Ave. at Pacific Street in Prospect Heights, www.barclayscenter.com] Nov. 9–13.

Lyss Stern is the founder of DivaLysscious Moms (www.divamoms.com).

Oreo cookie turkeys

A FabuLyssly fun dessert to make with the kids.

Makes 12 servings

INGREDIENTS

24 Oreo Double-Stuff cookies

12 miniature peanut butter cups

12 malted milk balls

1 cup candy corn

4 ounces chocolate frosting

4 ounces white frosting

red food coloring

DIRECTIONS: Place one Oreo cookie as the base. Put one teaspoon of chocolate frosting on top.

Place one small peanut butter cup on its side so that it sits perpendicular to the base and it’s stuck in the frosting. The peanut butter cup is the turkey’s breast. Place a teaspoon of chocolate frosting on the top (widest part) of the peanut butter cup. Pick up the second cookie, stick some candy corn — pointy side down — along one edge, into the Oreo “stuff,” to create the tail feathers. They should fan out around the edge. If you have trouble doing this, you can help them stick with some white frosting.

Place this second Oreo cookie on its edge and press it to the dab of brown frosting on the wide part of the peanut butter cup.

Place a dab of chocolate frosting on top of the peanut butter cup and attach a malted milk ball to form the head.

Take a small amount of the white frosting in a separate dish. Mix in red food coloring.

Use a toothpick to place white frosting for the eyes and red for the wattle. You can add a beak by pinching off the small pointy top of a candy corn, dip it in brown frosting, and adhering it to the malted milk ball.

Your turkey is complete!

Recipe from Food.com, www.food.com/recipe/oreo-cookie-turkeys-142998

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