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wild blackberry banana ice cream ~ it’s vegan

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Hello summer vacation.  It is hard to believe that it has been a week already. Yesterday my son wanted to make ice cream, banana ice cream, for his brother.  Isn’t that sweet?  His brother became a brace-face and now his mouth is very tender.  This recipe was a total accident.  I still am shocked at [...]

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embrace the morning: green smoothie

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I was inspired by a segment I saw on the Today Show yesterday called Beating the Bloat.  I hate that feeling and according to Kimberly Snyder eating fruit on an empty stomach is a way to avoid that problem and to jump start weight loss. She reasons that fruit digests quickly and if you eat [...]

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herzlichen glückwunsch zum geburtstag Oma

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Yesterday would have been the boy’s Urgroßmutter’s (Great Grandmother’s) 90th birthday. Unfortunately my husband has just returned from her memorial service.  She almost made it.  She will surely be missed. We decided that we would honor her with a cake.  There was much debate about which cake should be made.  Most were clamoring for a [...]

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quick apple tart

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Are you pie crust challenged or those just looking for something a little different or lighter than a traditional pie?  This would look wonderful as an addition to your regular Thanksgiving desert options. This is the ticket. It is a perfect fall sweet. It takes just a few minutes to make and it is lighter [...]

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wild strawberry ice (cream) recipe

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As a child I was the weird one, I did not like ice cream. If it was take it or leave it, I usually left it. I tended to prefer sherbet over it’s creamier, heavier cousin.  The only times that I remember getting an option was at Grandma’s house. I hated going to grandma’s as [...]

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super lemony poppyseed snack cake

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If you are looking for the “perfect” make-ahead recipe for the long holiday weekend coming up I have just the thing for you. I made this cake on Tuesday and have left it on the counter, uncovered, for 2 days.  It is still moist, and better than the first day I made it.  Which might [...]

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plain jane chocolate chip cookies

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comfort food deluxe. I was actually trying to recreate some cookies that I had like 30 years ago, give or take…  I remember, sometime in the 1970′s, eating a cookie, well really like a batch of cookies, that were like nothing I had tasted before.  My Aunt Toni made a batch of chocolate chip cookies [...]

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a healthier chocolate muffin

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The whole idea of a healthy chocolate muffin sounds ludicrous.  Doesn’t it? In my head the word muffin is synonymous with healthy, I know that isn’t true but cupcake is supposed to be the bad boy.  However the only chocolate muffins I have ever had are those ginormous Costco versions that must have more calories [...]

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roadkill banana chocolate squirrel cakes

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don’t turn up your nose at the idea.  what do you think happens to all those poor things that end up alongside the road after a clear night and a full moon?  we make them into the most delicious cakes you have ever skunk sunk your teeth into. This tradition began years ago when the [...]

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chocolate coconut cookie bars

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Sometimes I’m in the mood for cookies, but I hate to make cookies because of the batch process.  The scooping, into the oven, rotate pans, out of oven, cool, start over, etc.  I inevitably burn the last batch.  So bar cookies it is.  This is my version of a chocolate chip cookie.  Great homework helper, [...]

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not nutella

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Today is World Nutella Day. What do you mean you’ve never heard of that? Any excuse for chocolate and hazelnuts blended into a creamy deliciousness is a reason to celebrate in my book.  My only problem with Nutella is that it is made with hydrogenated oils and I am a bit of a freak and [...]

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