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This year, gifts were 90% homemade. Salted caramel sauce was one of the cheaper things to make as sugar was cheap, it doesn’t use that much butter or cream, and the jars were left over from canning. This is great
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I don’t know why I wanted to try my hand at homemade hot chocolate mix, but once the idea was implanted, I had to give it a whirl. I wanted something that didn’t use powdered milk as most people make
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I wanted to use up some ingredients in the fridge, freezer, and cupboard for lunch today. I came up with this nasi goreng inspired rice because I had some shrimp paste to use up, wanted something spicy, and had some
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I’m taking it a bit easier on gifts this year, due to still looking for work. So using what I have in the house, I’ve been making quite a few homemade gifts – of the culinary sort of course. Cookies,
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I use this multi-purpose dry rub on everything – from sprinkling on ribs and chicken, to seasoning a meatloaf and a roast. Note, that I don’t add sugar to the mix as I find its not necessary for 99% of
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This is one of those recipes I happened across by finding a recipe on a page, seeing a picture that had a yummy looking link, going to that website, then another link. You get the drift. The end result was
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What do you do when you buy a giant jug of eggnog and don’t think you can swallow another sip? Okay, that’s a stupid question, because eggnog IS heaven in mug (specially with Amaretto and whiskey), but sometimes the jug is
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While watching one of the many Christmas baking shows on tv this time of year, I saw a commercial for a dessert that looked like a dark rich Turkish Delight. Thankfully I caught the episode that this dish was made
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Soft ginger molasses cookies are a fairly recent addition to my Christmas baking list. They make a fluffy, tasty, and soft ginger cookie. I’ve now made these a couple years in a row and made a just a couple adjustments
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Supper tonight was an “in the grocery store, what the heck do I get” inspiration. I literally wandered around the deli section, looking at 7-layer dips, cuts of sausages, baked chicken, and nothing was really calling my name. Wandering through
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