Good old wonderfully superb deliciousness!
I simply cannot recall a time or date when I was NOT in the mood for peanut butter. The creamy, sweet, savory wonderful magic is simply a treat to be enjoyed anytime…any day.Thus, I concede to baking cookies – again! This time, it’s peanut butter cookies (well, again), with a little “white chocolatey” note. There’s…
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We all crave little morsels of sweetness from time to time (or, all the time in many a case).Just a gem, a bite, a bit…And, while dark chocolate will fit the bill in the majority of situations, sometimes we all want something a little more super – protein packed, fiber packed, health packed, but also…
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I have professed that when you see Meyer lemons available at the market, you must snatch them up (well, buy them, of course), and run home to create all the goodness with them right away.It’s so true.They are magical little orbs of wonderfulness. Citrus × meyeri, the Meyer lemon: small, sweet hybrid, thought to be a cross between…
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I pondered what to bake for Valentine’s Day for quite some time this year. I thought about a special steak sous vide dinner at home, with roasted Brussels sprouts and baked sweet potatoes – some of our favorite things, along with a gorgeous red wine.But, I also thought long and hard about dessert.I was determined…
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Over Christmas last year, my daughter-in-law gifted me with some homemade Dutch Apple Butter. Her family is from Michigan and every year they all get together in the fall and pick apples and make cinnamon spiced apple butter. YUM!She asked me if liked apple butter and if I’d enjoy having some. Umm..what do you think…
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With my bounty of licorice candy, licorice sea salt, and licorice candy, I couldn’t leave my gluten-free and dairy-free diet friends hanging – I had to bake THEM some treats as well.Thus, with a touch of this and a touch of that, I baked, yet again!Second up (and final) from the Icelandic licorice theme:Gluten-Free Dairy-Free…
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One of my favorite things about my sister-in-law is her adoration of travel.We both share the fascination with learning and experiencing other countries, seeing the world, and meeting those of another culture. We both also really cherish the opportunity to try new foods abroad.And Alison travels A LOT.She’s one lucky one. On her most recent…
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There’s something incredibly special about sweet potatoes.They are sweet. They are starchy. They are satisfying. They are salubrious.But, they also come in a variety of “varieties,” many with which you many not be familiar. Most of us know sweet potatoes, the orange-y golden ones, as “yams.” Well, sorry, folks, yams are a completely different thing….
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With all of our family living so close, our holidays are easy in many ways. But, we do have to share and split and transfer and trade, just like any other family.My side of the family gets Thanksgiving. That’s just the way it is. It has always been that way and it will always be…
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The earthy sweetness of roasted beets with the aromas of sage are a perfect combination and accompaniment to the sweet funk of gorgonzola cheese, specifically Gorgonzola Dulce. This is a softer, nuttier, sweeter version of the smelly, spreadable cheese. It all really needed to be combined into a lovely quiche – oh, and it needed…
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