A love for creating recipes, cooking, and sharing tasty food
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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I adore eggnog and being lactose-intolerant doesn’t help the situation any. Thankfully I made Alton Brown’s Aged Eggnog this year, and let me tell you it’s every eggnog lovers dream! Aged eggnog packs a punch with three types of liquor
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Dalgona coffee (whipped coffee) is the latest craze and has it’s origins in Macau, India, and Pakistan. Although I’m not usually one to follow the trends that go whipping by (pun not 100% intended), if it involves coffee I am
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I first had German Mulled Wine (also known as Gluehwein) at the Christmas Market this winter. I actually had it somewhat by mistake as one of the friends we were touring the market with, couldn’t finish her gluehwein, so I
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I went on a jam creating kick this summer and wanted to continue with the streak of preserving, by making canned fruit. The Hubby’s mom used to preserve bucket loads of fruit at summers end and he prefers canned fruit
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I love crabapples. With their tart snap and their crunchy texture, I always wish that they came in large apple size. When my sister offered to give me all the crabapples on her tree, I immediately said yes. What I
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I had quite a few citrus fruits left over from making jam and cooking fish. The Hubby and I enjoy a good bourbon cocktail and I asked him to pick out a recipe that would use up the fruit. He
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I should name this post Adventures in Jamming! I must admit I went on a bit of a jamming bender this year and I don’t think it will be stopping any time soon. There is such a wide variety of fruits
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I made blueberry maple jam using this recipe a few years ago and when I ended up buying 5 lbs of early blueberries this week, I knew it was time to make it again. I use Bernardin’s No Sugar Needed
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Our friends recently gifted me with a couple of giant stalks of bay leaves. As there is no way for me to make enough dishes in a week to use up the leaves, I decided to dry them. As no
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