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Real life continues….

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! We had such a sweet, wonderful holiday, full of family and friends who are near and dear to us, so it was terrific! You can NEVER get too much LOVE, but one thing we did get too much of was food-food-food. We always over-estimate how much we will need [...]

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Holiday baking & baking & baking . . .

Couldn’t stop myself from baking some of the little ‘snowball’ cookies we always look forward to at Christmas each year. They are such a common cookie in many families, I’ve found, and the recipes are very, very similar. My mother always cooked them until they were ‘done’, with no soft doughy center, and that’s the [...]

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Gingerbread…..Continued…..

Failure! I got a recipe from my fav site, Joy of Recipes, and this time it wasn’t very tasty. Not gingerbready enough, and the texture was dense. Also, they had a lemon glaze on it, which is a bit unusual to go with gingerbread. So, the gingerbread cake is lurking in the kitchen, probably feeling [...]

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Baking Gingerbread Today . . .

It has been overcast and dreary out all day, and I’ve been thinking about gingerbread. Maybe it’s because I watched the White House Christmas last night and saw the huge gingerbread house on display. No matter, I’m getting ready to bake again. Will post about the yummy (or not) results soon.

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Check out the “Cooking & Recipe LINKS” page!

I love to cook and I have tons of cookbooks full of wonderful recipes. Yet, I find myself looking on the Internet for even MORE recipes! Research is pretty time consuming, that’s for sure! Anyway, I have started an “I Love to Cook” page that you can access at any time. I plan to add [...]

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