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Posted March 30, 2018in Recipes
These are a wonderful treat for picnics or brunch. The crust is my version of the family pie crust recipe. I streamlined it a little and made it easy to remember. The key is the order of the ingredients. Each one is half the amount of the previous. If you
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Posted February 23, 2018in Recipes
Springtime is finally just around the corner! I believe that one of the many reasons the spring season is so wonderful is because of the anticipation of warmth and sunshine after the long, cold days of winter. In thinking about a recipe to contribute, I always think of my current
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Posted January 30, 2018in Recipes
Brrrrrr… Baby, it’s cold outside! And to me, cold weather equals soup weather. Although I could eat a different kind of soup every day during the winter and never tire of it, my husband is a bit more particular. He likes soup — but only certain soups. So, in looking for new recipes,
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Posted January 03, 2018in Recipes
Lasagna recipe is a family favorite Everybody knows how to make lasagna, right? Or, if you’re like me, you think you do. Mine tastes OK, but it generally comes out soupy and just not quite the way I think it should. I was searching through my recipe files recently, found
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Posted December 01, 2017in Recipes
Here is an updated and very lucky recipe for New Year’s Day. Traditionally, Hoppin’ John is eaten in the southern U.S. on New Year’s Day. The dish has rice, bacon and black-eyed peas. I have always felt that the dish is bland and unattractive, so I came up with this
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Posted October 27, 2017in Recipes
Winter weather is almost here. We love comfort food when it’s cold outside. It’s good to hunker down inside with a creamy, steamy, delicious casserole that just warms you up from the inside out. A few weeks ago, one of the ladies at our church asked if I would make
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Posted October 06, 2017in Recipes
Impress your friends and family with the best of the Midwest Recently, as I was preparing to host friends from out of state for the weekend, a conversation took place about meal “must haves” during their stay. As is usually the case, pork tenderloins were one of the “local” foods
Read More →I’ve been enjoying the “Great British Baking Show” lately. I am not generally a baker, but I have been inspired by some of the recipes from the show. The one for Povitica brought back so many memories. I was about 10 years old, biking with my special basket to Mrs.
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Posted July 26, 2017in Recipes
Tis the season…..for zucchini! We love it-raw, fried, roasted, grilled, zoodles, lasagna, zucchini bread, (bikini bread according to Emily, our granddaughter), and now my almost favorite — zucchini brownies! Who would have thought that this versatile green veggie would be involved in the most delectable fudgy desert? We generally plant
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Posted June 28, 2017in Recipes
A semi-homemade favorite A few years ago, I used to watch a cooking show on Food Network called “Semi-Homemade.” The program’s title described it well as the show’s hostess shared recipes and techniques using a variety of store-bought convenience items to easily create a “homemade”-type meal. Although this recipe didn’t
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