sharing my recipe box and a little everyday life...
My first experiences with chicken pot pie were of the frozen variety. You know the kind…the ones that come in a little disposable pie tin, packaged in a thin cardboard box. They were a special treat when our parents were away for the evening. And I thought they were awesome! Fast forward a number of [...]
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My youngest sister Jessica had raved about a cream cheese pound cake she’d been making the last few years, a recipe she found in a Penzeys catalog. She would keep asking me if I had made it yet, and I would reply again, meekly, that I still had not. So last July, when our family [...]
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Do you have any idea how many times during any given week that I am asked to make macaroni and cheese?! I’m sure it’s a very common request among households with young kids, but as a mom who prefers it homemade, and with a little different twist each time, I’ve had to come up with [...]
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I’m cuckoo for marshmallow, did you know that?! I’ve been making homemade marshmallows for a number of years, and have acquired a nice little collection of recipes incorporating marshmallow, both homemade and from the package. This time of year, with Easter just around the corner, these recipes from the past are sure to bring a [...]
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Each year, come March, I ask our oldest daughter what she’d like for a birthday treat. Never once has she requested any kind of a traditional birthday cake. In recent years, we’ve done Fudgy Mini Brownie Fruit Pies with Almond Cream Cheese, Snickerdoodle Cupcakes, brownie towers, and make-your-own ice cream sundaes. I love the variety [...]
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There’s something so comforting about a big chocolate sheet cake sitting on the counter to cool. Its thin single layer deserves bragging rights of great proportion, but instead it chooses to humbly whisper only of nostalgia and simple home baked deliciousness. This unpretentious cake is always the biggest of winners. I recently baked a chocolate [...]
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One thing’s for certain. In the weeks surrounding Easter, you’ll find egg salad in our fridge, ready to be spread for a sandwich. Or scooped up by crispy salty barbecue flavored potato chips, a chips and dip appetizer disguised as my main course. It’s true. Egg salad on chips makes the perfect lunch! I don’t [...]
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Neither Blake nor I have 1 ounce of Irish blood coursing through our veins (Update! Mom just informed me that I DO have a teensy bit of Irish in me, from my Grandma Renelt. Why did I not know this until now?!?!), so St. Patrick’s Day doesn’t hold a particularly personal place in our family’s [...]
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I am so excited to be working with Land O’Lakes this year! And I’m LOVING this giveaway! The gift package includes: one full-value coupon for any Land O Lakes® Butter Half Sticks one full-value coupon for Sauté Express® Sauté Starter (We LOVE the “garlic and herb” flavor!) one beautiful and hardworking Le Creuset cast iron skillet gorgeous [...]
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Have you ever created a recipe at home, completely out of necessity? Because you ate it while on vacation far, far away, or a store has stopped carrying a product that you love? And you simply can’t live without its utter fabulousness in your life on a regular basis?! Well that’s how this Curried Cauliflower with [...]
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You know how much I love my brownies. I have a couple super good recipes that I tend to always fall back on…the brownies I grew up on, a recipe from Mom that’s moist and chocolatey and casual…and then a brownie that’s a bit more grown-up, all dark and dense, with a hint of coffee [...]
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With no real plans to share this recipe here, I almost didn’t take a picture of our “big red pot” (what we call our beloved oval French oven from Le Creuset) prior to setting it on the supper table for my family. But then, at the last minute, I decided to snap a shot. Because [...]
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