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Lately, I’ve been trying to be more prompt about making recipes I find in the obscene number of magazines I receive every month. Most of the recipes I want to make get filed away for future reference, but there always seems to be a few that are just [...]

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As I told you recently, I came into possession of several new cookbooks. This recipe comes from one of those books, simply entitled Cobblers and Crumbles. When I first saw this book, I thought to myself that those are two things I just don’t make frequently. [...]

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I shared one of my most well-received recipes a while back. It is so, so simple. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. It’s just that when you slave over something that is pretty involved, it’s a tiny bit disheartening when something you threw together in 10 minutes gets a [...]

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I don’t watch much Food Network anymore. Somewhere along the way, it has lost its appeal to me. A few weeks ago, I accidentally watched Giada (in my defense, she does come on after Paula) and she made these wonderful-looking chocolate souffles. Not only are they [...]

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Being a big fan of Williams-Sonoma, you can imagine that I am an even bigger fan of the Williams-Sonoma outlet about 90 miles from here. I try to keep my visits to a minimum, but I do love perusing the aisles looking at all of that lovely, mostly [...]

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I am still intrigued by those World Peace Cookies. The addition of sea salt to them really makes them much more interesting than a traditional cookie. When I found this recipe in a Cooking Light magazine, my salty cookie interest was heightened.

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Now, that’s a recipe title. These brownies have it all. While I like brownies that are over the top chocolate, I think my favorites are the ones loaded with other flavors, too. This recipe certainly offers a little bit of everything.

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After listening all day to Quinn saying that we hadn’t anything sweet in the house in days, I finally caved late last night and made these cupcakes. The recipe appealed to me because it was simple, quick, and mixed in one bowl. Their simplicity, in preparation as [...]

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The last time we visited our friends in North Carolina, Tonya and I visited Foster’s Market for lunch. Our lunch was fantastic, and the market offered so many delicious looking items that I wanted to take them all home and give them a try. While Tonya was [...]

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As we entered 2008, most of us with great designs on making this a better year, I thought what more appropriate recipe to make than Dorie Greenspan’s World Peace Cookies? Nice sentiment for the new year, right? I thought so, anyway. So, I pulled out Baking: [...]

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