Cooking, Creating, and Everything in Between
It’s summer, and summer means a bounty of fresh, in season fruit. There is no time better for luscious, perfect produce than these “hazy, lazy, crazy days of summer.” Peaches and Cream French Macarons take the beauty of a perfectly…
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I have always loved pecans. And toasted pecans? Gahhh. A revelation. There is something so deliciously earthy and fallish about them. So when you make homemade Pecan Sandies (tell yourself it’s really because you have to try out a Christmas…
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Dark Chocolate and Peanut Butter are kind of like the high school sweethearts that everyone always knew belonged together. They just really work, somehow. These bars are both easy and beautiful– perfect for taking to a picnic. No one will…
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Yum Death by Chocolate Brownies are the cure for just about anything. Heartache? No problem. Breakup? Take two and call me in the morning. Bad day? Feeling blue? Check and double check. These are the true chocolate lovers’ brownie, based…
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Yum It’s a tradition almost as old as Christmas– making classic Hershey’s Kiss Christmas cookies, AKA Peanut Blossoms. I can remember even as a child helping to make these cookies with my Mom in the kitchen– and feeling so important…
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Yum It’s no secret that we are cookie fiends at my house. There is very nearly always some type of cookie cooling on my counters for church, school, or someone’s upcoming birthday party. One day I looked at the scads…
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Yum There is a very teeny window each year for one of my favorite fruits– the blissfully tart cranberry. I go crazy for cranberry while these little ruby gems are in season, and then I always buy plenty to freeze…
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Yum When the dog days of summer finally start giving way to the crisp, cool evenings of late August and early September, I start dreaming of fall. I dream of big, cozy sweaters and plaid shirts. I dream of favorite…
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Yum Sometimes, when I’m having a chocolate craving, I sit there and think to myself, “I’d love to have a chocolate chip cookie.” Other times, I think, “I’d just adore a gooey, fudgy brownie.” I think that some stressed out…
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Yum If you’ve never heard of a Springerle cookie, you’re not alone. Springerle is an old time, traditional type of German cookie which is so ornate that you almost can’t believe you are looking at edible cookies. The classic cookies…
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