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For me, Christmas season starts as soon as the last trick-or-treater takes their candy and walks away from my front door. This year, actually, while I waited for the little ones to come I planned out Christmas decorations. Quinn, being the ever-loyal husband, followed me around [...]

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As anyone who has given this blog a good read-through knows, I adore pecans. They are by far my baking nut of choice. I do try to branch out to others occasionally, with the exception of walnuts, but I don’t have a freezer full of pecans for no reason.
Pecan pie is also one [...]

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I think that most of us have those recipes that we rely on for those times when we need something quick and easy. For me, this is one of those recipes. I’ve made it countless times and it always gets rave reviews.
It’s almost embarassingly simple. Butter, [...]

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A slight deviation from my norm, these bars don’t require baking. Reading through the recipe, I thought these sounded like a sure Quinn-pleaser. Chocolate, peanut butter, nuts, marshmallows, Rice Krispies… actually it sounded pretty good to me, too.
My version of these bars have pecans, since I [...]

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Our most recent discovery is Praline Liqueur, a pecan flavored liqueur. Quinn went in search of it to use in making my birthday cheesecake next weekend. In the meantime, we’ve discovered the wonders it does poured over vanilla ice cream or mixed with milk. Yum. [...]

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While making Chewy Graham Brownies the other day, my eye kept drifting to this recipe on the opposite page. Something about raspberries, oats, and brown sugar seemed specifically designed for summer.

These bars begin with a crust that is much like shortbread. Raspberry preserves are spread on top of that, with a [...]

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This is a recipe of indistinct origin that everyone I know has made at some time or another. I’m not sure if that’s a Southern thing or not. Regardless of that, this is one of those handy fall-back recipes when you want something with a high taste to effort ratio.
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At first look, this recipe doesn’t seem quite right. There are only 5 ingredients, and not one of them involves flour, sugar, or any standard baking ingredient. However, the combination of ingredients come together magically to become a very, very, very good brownie.

This recipe is from one of my most often [...]

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I bake with pecans more than any other nut. They are by far my favorite, but sometimes I get a craving for something else. That brings us to this recipe that I found in a clearance table cookbook called Hershey’s Chocolate for Every Season. A delicious combination of chocolate, vanilla, and macadamia [...]

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I found this really simple recipe at Land O’Lakes’ website. There was nothing about it that didn’t sound good. After all, I’m a fool for cream cheese.

The crust is baked first without the filling. The directions read to beat the crust ingredients together, but I found that a pastry blender worked much [...]

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