Cooking, Creating, and Everything in Between
This Easter Blessings segment was brought to you as a collaboration between Jill from Argyle Cottage, The Handmade Table, and yours truly. 🙂 Easter Blessings I still remember the magic of a childhood Easter. The day started with church– new…
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Yum Cinnamon Roll Pound Cake? Did I hear you correctly? Yesssss. We have a little electric company leaflet that gets handed out each month in our neighborhood, and in it they feature favorite reader recipes. I added a little breakfast…
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Yum Ah, carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. I start to think about you, with your glorious, toasted pecans, when the winter starts to get long. I dream of spring– of that delicious new green that seems to happen when…
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Yum On a recent trip to Cracker Barrel, I saw a new item on their menu– the Cinnamon Roll Biscuit. Intrigued, I ordered one. It was divine– light and flaky, with swirls of cinnamon sugar and these amazing little pockets…
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Yum There are few meals more impressive than a Garlic Roasted Rack of Lamb. The presentation, whether done in a crown or just a rack carved into chops at the table, is exquisite. Lamb is a beautiful, subtle meat with…
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Yum Hot Cross Buns have long been an Easter tradition in my family. We always had these sweet, slightly spicy little buns nestled into a basket on the holiday table. Tradition says that in the old days (NO, my childhood…
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Yum There is something so deliriously and deliciously spring-like about carrot cake. Let’s face it– nothing pleases the Easter bunny more than good old fashioned carrots– especially if they are baked into a mouth-watering treat. But if you are short on…
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When I was a kid, my siblings and I had a newspaper route. I remember on Easter Sunday that the newspapers had to be delivered especially early. We kids would crawl from our beds in the wee hours and fold…
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Yum Hot cross buns! Hot cross buns! One a penny, two a penny, Hot cross buns! If you have no daughters, give them to your sons. One a penny two a penny, Hot cross buns! Hot Cross Buns are an…
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Yum This past Christmas, my wonderful Aunt Diane treated us to a Honeybaked Ham. Oh my goodness . . . the excitement, the glory . . . the absolute RAPTURE when we opened that classic red and gold foil and caught a…
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