A love for creating recipes, cooking, and sharing tasty food
I had to start my baking early this year as we are seeing folks starting this weekend. I went a bit old school and nostalgic and made some butter pecan tarts. I tried to dig up my mother-in-law’s recipe, but
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I had quite a bit of fresh squeezed lemon juice to use up after zesting a bunch for cookies. So I went searching for recipes. Earlier this year, I had bought a small tin of lemon thins and really wanted
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When I saw these on a facebook post from The View from Great Island, I knew immediately that I wanted to try making them. I adored the idea of polar bear cookies! These were my first gingerbread cookies (the traditional
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Rumballs are a Christmas staple in my house. Easy to make, delectable, and always a hit for giving away as presents or at Christmas parties. The chocolate ones are actually a family recipe of a friend. Our friends had ladies
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I generally decorate my Thanksgiving table with mini pumpkins, and this year I also had a kuri squash from a friend’s garden. I decided to do a take on my butternut squash soup and do a beef, navy bean, and
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I revised and updated my sriracha sauce recipe this year. When looking at other recipes out there, I noticed they all had fermented peppers. As I’ve recently gotten on a fermenting kick (kimchi was my first attempt), I thought I
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Nothing beats a big bowl of fresh homemade roasted vegetable salsa! This has a nice fresh flavor and can be made as hot as you want by using more or fewer jalapenos. The Hubby and I both prefer a less
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I’m not a super huge fan of cookies, but I do go through phases of craving them and monster cookies are at the top of my list when it comes to wanting a cookie. I love a crunchy texture and
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I don’t know why I don’t make lasagna more often. Maybe because with just two of us and it makes about 10 pounds worth? But this lasagna is definitely company-worthy and would feed a large family or small army. Note,
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I wanted to make my pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving this year and being lactose intolerant, I set out to make my own sweet and condensed milk for it. After trying a couple of recipes it looks like this ratio of milk
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