Lordy. It’s been FIVE months since my last post? I am surprised I get any hits at all, and thank goodness for search engines! Continue reading
Tag Archives: baking
August 4, 2016 · 12:35 pm
Too Hot for A Campfire? Try S’mores Bars!
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Tagged as baking, chocolate, dessert, friendship, graham crackers, marshmallow fluff, Snacks
March 9, 2016 · 8:48 am
Train Treats for the Orchesquad: Dulce de Leche Cookies
My son Ken attends a parochial Catholic high school after eight years in our county public school system. The biggest adjustment for him was not academics, but his school orchestra program. Continue reading →
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Tagged as baking, cookie tray ideas, dessert, dulce de leche, friendship, high school, Snacks, strings orchestra
December 17, 2015 · 4:33 pm
Christmas Dinner 2015 and Grace’s Favorite Cookie
Yes, the annual Christmas dinner debate is over. The only discussions were minor because I announced I was going “back to basics”: Continue reading →
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Tagged as baking, Christmas 101 book, Christmas cookies, Christmas dinner menu, dessert, friendship, Holiday baking, pecans
December 10, 2015 · 9:21 pm
Christmas Is Calling…With Cranberry Oat Bars!
It is a shame you can’t buy fresh cranberries year-round. My BFF Grace likes to buy extra bags around Thanksgiving and freeze them to make coffee cake. Me, Continue reading →
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June 20, 2013 · 10:12 pm
My First German Chocolate Cake For My Sister Tina
I’ve mentioned in the past that I am the family birthday cake baker. Continue reading →
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Tagged as baking, Birthday cake, boiled icing, Cakes, Coconut, dessert, evaporated milk, German chocolate cake, pecans, Sour cream
May 21, 2013 · 8:58 pm
Spring Desserts: Rhubarb (and Strawberry) Crumble – Grace’s Recipe
Rhubarb is one of those food items (officially deemed a “fruit” instead of a vegetable through a 1947 NY law because it was cooked into pies) that I never ate growing up in DC. Strawberry pie, of course, but rhubarb? Continue reading →
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a cougar in the kitchen 