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Three Summer Fruit Salads
photo courtesy of P&G Home Made Simple Besides grilling and spending as much time in the outdoors, we LOVE taking advantage of all the RIPE and TASTY fruit available during the summer season. That...
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Banana Ice Cream
Who wants to spend time in the kitchen with the oven on in the heat of summer? Instead, making refreshing, easy dishes that utilize the fridge and freezer are the ideal choices to help beat the heat....
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Chocolate Zucchini Cake
There is no better sense of accomplishment than to build, manage, and harvest a bountiful garden. This is our third summer attempting to care for our garden. If you have been a long time reader of...
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Banana, Blueberry, Yogurt Bundt Cake
It’s my favorite day of the month, I get to reveal my Secret Recipe Club assignment for August. I’m honored to be a part of this diverse international group of food bloggers. In case you forgot,...
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Fall Harvest Recipes
What do you do when you get back home from an afternoon of apple picking , open the doors to your apartment (or house) and realize that between the pounds of apples picked and sheer girth of the...
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Kahlua Brownies
Our oven has been working non-stop since I launched the Bananas for Boobies: Bake it Happen campaign to raise money and awareness for Breast Cancer research. Don’t forget to go to the website:...
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Pumpkin Pie
This weekend I was craving a pumpkin pie but, we haven’t gone on our traditional pumpkin picking extravaganza. And, while I was enthusiastic about making one, I also knew I was in a severe time...
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Thanksgiving Apple Cinnamon Coffee Cake
Today it’s the Secret Recipe Club reveal day. I’m honored to be a part of this diverse international group of food bloggers. In case you forgot, everyone in the Secret Recipe Club gets “assigned” a...
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Thanksgiving Menu
Whether you’re hosting a Thanksgiving feast or you’re merely a guest required to bring an assigned dish, I’ve curated some recipes from the blog to help fill in the blanks and take the stress out of...
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Compost Cookies
I just participated in the 3rd Annual Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap. It’s an exciting program, hosted by Lindsay of Love and Olive Oil and Julie of The Little Kitchen, which brings together food...
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Chocolate Covered Clementines
The other night, I decided to make some chocolate dipped clementines while I was getting dinner together. I had a bag of the fruit sitting on my counter top for days. We peeled them, and dunked them...
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Holiday Peppermint Bark
During the holiday season, I’ve always suffered from homemade gift envy. My children’s schools have always had a “no gift” policy for the teachers. They try to enforce the idea of homemade cards from...
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Holiday Gingerbread
While I am on vacation, I’m reposting a couple of holiday recipe favorites. Hope you enjoy… Winter vacation isn’t complete without a family Gingerbread house construction. We love opening up the...
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Viennese Crescent Cookies
While I am away on vacation, I’m reposting some of the holiday favorites. Hope you enjoy…. Viennese Crescent Cookies, or Vanillekipferl, are similar to sugar cookies and the most distinctive...
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Chocolate Haystacks
While I am away on vacation, I am reposting some of our holiday favorites. Hope you enjoy…. Nothing is easier than a recipe that clearly states “no bake.” Chocolate Haystacks are beyond simple to...
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Chocolate Cake Truffles
This is a re-post while I am on vacation but, it’s one of our favorite weekend baking activities. Enjoy…. I’m not sure if it’s the cold weather or the fact that I have A LOT of idle time with my kids...
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My kids love fruit. Every morning for breakfast they’re either eating strawberries, bananas, blueberries or sliced apples. However, I realized one fruit conspicuous by its absence from their diet:...
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It’s the Secret Recipe Club reveal day today. I was assigned the blog Lynsey Lou’s, written by twenty-something Lynsey who’s recently married and uses her blog to explore and share recipes for her...
View ArticleHomemade Cinnamon Buns
Cinnamon Buns have always been etched my mind as “sinful buns.” As a child, when the mall opened up near my house in Baltimore, my mother and I would spend hours walking around to the different...
View ArticleSlow Cooked Vanilla Swirl Pound Cake
Cake in a slow cooker? Sounds a bit strange right? I mean, my adventures with my slow cooker have only featured stews and soups and chillis. It’s hard to imagine “slow cooking” a cake. Now, imagine...
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