A love for creating recipes, cooking, and sharing tasty food
We went to the farmers market this weekend and I bought a dozen farm eggs. Only to get home and realize I still had 3 cartons to use. I then went on a search for a recipe that would use
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My usual go-to for using up old bananas is banana bread or banana muffins, but I wanted to kick it up a notch. I dug up Ina Garten’s banana cake recipe. It turned out wonderfully and I only added some
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For Easter dinner I had the inspiration (and craving) to make a Mounds Cake. Chocolate cake with heaps of coconut icing. I found a recipe for the icing on Sally’s Baking Addiction. I chose it as it seemed to make
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Due to the extraordinary year it’s been, my birthday was a very quiet affair. Where we are, things weren’t super locked down and we were able to have 2 couples over for a visit. I didn’t feel like doing a
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I love lemon desserts and so does a friend of ours, whose birthday was this month. Due to the whole quarantine situation we couldn’t celebrate in-person. As I knew she loved lemon sweets, I decided to make a lemon pound
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I don’t know why I wanted to make blueberry coffee cake, except for the fact that I wanted blueberries for dessert. It’s early blueberry season for and I have 2lbs of blueberries that are crying out to be eaten. Some
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So Christmas cake seems to be a must-have staple for the holidays. Unfortunately, it’s horrible. The main thing that ruins a Christmas cake are those nasty maraschino cherries and fruit. Followed closely by that even more nasty, sugary, crusted icing
Read moreSo last night was a quiet, yet fun New Years Evening with some friends. I made a roast, garlic chive mashed taters, peas, the most important food group of gravy, and the usual trimmings like pickles, olives, cheese, buns, etc.
Read moreAnother transfer from the old site, there is going to be a few recipes going up. This is a very rich and decadent cake. Like a chocolate bar amped up.
Read moreAnother transfer over from my old site. I made some bread pudding today and it reminded me of the Pumpkin Bread Pudding I made last November, which then reminded me of this pumpkin shaped cake. Filled and drizzled with caramel,
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