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Food gifts for the holidays

12.10.2010 Preserving

Who doesn’t love to get a delicious homemade gift for the holiday’s? If you are looking for an easy to make gift this cocoa is the one for you. Your friends will love it and think you are really something for making it from scratch. Not only is this jelly festive in color but is […]

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Homemade potpourri from your kitchen

12.07.2010 Tidbits & Miscellaneous

One of my favorite things about the holidays are the wonderful smells that come from the kitchen, like apple pie cooking or pumpkin pie with those yummy spices. When I was making apple bread I realized I could save the skins and cores of the apples and use them in some homemade kitchen potpourri, so […]

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Mini~Quiches

12.03.2010 Breakfast

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Best Apple Bread

12.01.2010 Breads

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Oatmeal White Chocolate Chip Cookies with Dried Cranberries

11.29.2010 Sweet Things

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How to make a Lemon Cream Crostata~a Daring Bakers Challenge

11.27.2010 Daring-Bakers-Challenge

November Daring Bakers Challenge was to master the crostata which is an Italian pastry or tart. Typically a crostata is a pastry filled with jam and a lattice top crust, but there are many variations. If your reading this and find yourself asking “what’s a daring baker’s challenge?’. It is a monthly challenge where […]

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What’s on my Thanksgiving table this year?

11.24.2010 Tidbits & Miscellaneous

Since 2002, we’ve hosted Thanksgiving at our house. That was the year we moved in, and my in-laws left the country for three years, leaving us “out-laws” in charge of the ranch. Even though they’ve long since returned, my sister-in-law and I never handed back the reins when it comes to this holiday. Each year, […]

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