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Christmas wreath cookies are, hands down, my absolute favorite cookie. In fact, I rarely make them because by the time they are all made, I’ve literally eaten half the cookies. Then the half that did make it, are generally eaten
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I saw a post on Confessions of a Cookbook Queen‘s site and was instantly reminded of this my mother-in-law’s Caramel Marshmallows. This is an old school recipe and were put out every Christmas. They are probably my second favorite Christmas
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Tis the season for bountiful fruit and veg and that includes pears. Neither the husband or myself are huge “must have pears!” people, but when I was at the market, these pears were laying there. Perfect and unbruised, they were
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I offered to bring a dessert to a friend’s BBQ and was originally planning on bringing frozen lemon squares. But as I had a bunch of apples and a couple peaches to use up, I decided to go with apple
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The original recipe for this pie was a rhubarb cream pie of my mother-in-laws. Rhubarb or strawberry rhubarb were the only flavours she made. She thought I was totally thinking outside the box and it was crazy wild when I
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This batch of lemon curd was intended to be filling madeleines, but I found that there wasn’t enough being injected into the cookie. As a filling for a cupcake or spread on a piece of toast, it would be stellar.
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I came across this recipe for lemon posset through Facebook and by the pictures alone I knew I wanted to make it. The facts that it was made with three ingredients, looked like a lemony, silky, spoonful of heaven, and
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It was years ago when I first heard of trifle. A bit of research ended up showing some disturbing jello and fruit concoction, I’m not sure where it came from, but I knew that it wasn’t the trifle I’d tried.
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This is the second year I’ve made licorice caramels. Last year they were lightly salted and this year they ended up being vanilla-licorice. I originally found the recipe for salted licorice caramels in the Holiday Special Edition of Bon Appetit.
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This is another one of those recipes where you take a bit from one recipe, a chunk from another, add a bit of hope and throw it all together. The bonus of making deep dish pumpkin pie is in using
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