White Chocolate Cherry

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Bliss is Great Harvest White Chocolate Cherry Swirl bread. If any of you dear, wonderful, sweet, amazing  friends or family know how to make this  delightful-party-in-my-mouth bread —  Please give me the recipe and tell me how to make it! It’s a matter of life and death. Not really. But I want it reeeel bad! … Read More

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A healthy breakfast muffin — that actually tastes good! The first time I took a bite of this muffin was over Thanksgiving weekend — at my sister’s house.  My mom had brought her a stash of the muffins — and she was graciously sharing them with the rest of us. First, I’m just going to … Read More

Will a bribe work?

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I ate this tonight. While I savored the graham cracker crust with layers of cheesecake, pumpkin and fresh whipped cream – I thought of you. Yes, you . . . and the other 50+ people who stop by this blog throughout the day and/or week. I thought how you would probably love to make this … Read More

Amazing!

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Saturday night we did some “catching up” with friends.  Approximately 2 hours before our guests were to arrive, I got a hankerin’ to re-arrange our great room.  Crazy, I know.  But that’s how I roll sometimes! My favorite son had mentioned this arrangement awhile back, and I just couldn’t imagine it.  But Saturday it suddenly … Read More

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You should make this . . . Wild West Tex-Mex Rice Salad Perfect for Cinco de Mayo ! Dressing: 1 cup Newman’s Own Olive Oil & Vinegar Dressing 1/4 cup red wine vinegar 3 tablespoons chipotle chiles, chopped (in adobo sauce) Juice of 1 large lime (2 Tbs) 2 teaspoons salt Salad: 3 cans (15.5 … Read More

Cake in a mug

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Gather the children, grandchildren, the nieces & nephews, the menapausal women……..hand them a mug and let them mix up and bake a cake…in a mug….in 10 minutes or less! Here’s what you’ll need: A mug, an egg, sugar, milk, oil, cocoa powder, vanilla & flour Mix together in a mug: 4 Tablespoons flour  +  4  … Read More

Simple Crusty Bread

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Here we go…it’s bread time! Gather these ingredients: 1-1/2 tablespoons yeast 1-1/2 tablespoons kosher salt 3 cups lukewarm water 6-1/2 cups all-purpose flour, more for dusting dough Cornmeal and this equipment: pizza peel (or the bottom of a cookie sheet works great too) baking stone (or a non-stick loaf pan) large bowl or plastic container … Read More

Bread Anyone?

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I promised the bread recipe for today . . . unfortunately, after I had the entire post typed and ready to publish last night –  Internet Explorer decided to encounter an error. Arrghhh.  I can’t tell you how often this has happened…I’m so frustrated with IE.  The bread recipe is still coming….it will just be … Read More

Pea Soup Recipe

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Per your requests. This recipe is from the February, 2009 issue of Cuisine at Home Makes 2 very large servings or 4-6 smaller. Total time:  1 hour 2 strips thick-sliced bacon, chopped  (or more for leftovers) 1 cup diced onion 1/2 cup diced carrot 1/2 cup diced celery 1/2 teaspoon caraway seeds 2-1/2 cups water … Read More

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Rhubarb: fruit? or vegetable?We love rhubarb desserts around here (4/5 of us do anyway). Yesterday I picked my first rhubarb of the season and made crisp. Today it was gone. Tonight I made another (larger) pan of our favorite rhubarb crisp — and figured I’d share it with you all … the recipe that is.Here’s … Read More