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Technique Tuesdays: Double Boiler. Recipe: Creamy Lemon Curd
Technique Tuesday: Double Boiler Lemon Curd is a great companion to Irish Soda Farls that we make each St. Patrick’s Day. Curd is essential a fruit custard made with egg yolks. This recipe calls for a...
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World Wednesday: Irish Soda Farls
World Wednesday Have ever done genealogy? That’s where you track down your ancestors. A few years ago, I felt like giving a go and it consumed me. It’s like the most addictive puzzle ever created. My...
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Peanut Butter Brownie Torte
Have you seen that post floating around pinterest? It’s a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Cake…it looks exactly like a humongous peanut butter cup. Well, I thought it was pretty awesome and my...
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Sugar Cookies with Sweet Honey Icing
Easter is almost upon us. Maybe this year will be the year that I dig through boxes and find all of the Easter-egg dying kits I’ve bought over years on clearance after Easter. I always have good...
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Real-Food Remake: Celebration Potatoes (Funeral Potatoes)
There’s a recipe that has been used for generations in my family and the families of many that I know. They are called “Funeral Potatoes”. What a morose name. They are called that presumably because...
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Strawberry Mango Trifle
“Trifle” means something of little value. To me, “A Trifle” is of great value. Traditionally, this European dessert is layers of cake soaked in an alcohol of some kind, jam, custard and whipped cream....
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Nanny’s Oatmeal Cake
Cake. It’s used to celebrate, to comfort, as a door stop around Christmastime. I’m not much of a cake fan, and for birthdays at our house, the celebrant gets to choose their favorite dessert in lieu of...
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“Chocolate Covered Cherry” Sorbet
DISCLAIMER: The following blog entry involves discussion of non-REAL food. ;) When I was a little girl, growing up in Iowa, I would sometimes be lucky enough to spend a few days at a friend’s house who...
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Gooey Cinnamon Rolls
MEMORY MONDAYS It was a sunny summer Arizona day. I was a bored 13-year-old who had a serious hankering for something sweet. I had all day with nothing to do, most of my family were off doing whatever...
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Amazing Monte Cristo Sandwiches
Monte Cristo Sandwiches. A cross between a sandwich and french toast. I decided to make them for dinner tonight, and was disappointed that most recipes I found just had you dip the sandwich in egg or...
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