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I was given this recipe years ago by a family friend. It’s the perfect cookie for this time of year. They are like a gingersnap – but without the ‘snap’ Molasses Sugar Cookies 3/4 C butter 1 cup sugar 1/4 cup molasses 1 egg 2 …
Over the past few years, I’ve backed off a bit on the pressure I place on myself to cook the most optimally healthy food I can. The operative word is is ‘can’. What I ‘can’ do now is vastly different from what I was able …
It’s tough to wax poetic about pumpkin muffins while not two feet away my cat is crunching on a grasshopper he brought in from the backyard. It’s a shame, because these are very good muffins. At least I can take double pleasure this beginning of …
I have to admit. I’m not a big fan of turkey, so for me it’s all about the side dishes, starting with the stuffing. For at least a decade, we tried a different stuffing recipe every year until we hit on this one. With the …
I’ve been meaning to make pancake mix for quite some time now, but I found a mix in the grocery store that we liked well enough, and that didn’t stray too far from our standards, so we started buying it. And just kept buying it, …
One of my favorite summer desserts is simply berries and cream in a Meringue Nest. I find they are fairly easy to make – more forgiving than Pavlovas anyway – and though they can be made to look more decorative with piping, I’m fine with …
There are other options for shortcake other than strawberry, and maybe one of these days I will try one of them. But when the days are lengthening, the air is warmer and we start finding bright red strawberries hiding in the leaves of our backyard …