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A friend sent me this recipe in the mail. She got it from a friend who mailed it to her along with this note. What’s not to love about a review like that? I had to bake them, so I picked up some instant vanilla pudding mix and made a batch this morning. Todd said “They’re [...]
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Peanut Butter Caramel Swirled Brownies are from a Bobby Flay Showdown. It was Bobby Flay against a little company in Vermont called The Vermont Brownie Company and as usual, I missed the show. Bummer, because Gesina was on this episode as a judge — I need to watch more TV. Luckily, somebody told me about [...]
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I forgot to mention that the snow has melted. Fuzz is disappointed, but at least she experienced the joy of building a snowman. Snow had accumulated on the trampoline so she tried to build it there, the poor thing. Some day I’m going to show this kid some real snow!
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After starting my quest to clone the Publix Calypso Crunch cookies, I received some email from people with links to this post on Judi’s blog. Judi, a Calypso Crunch fan, made her own version and posted a photo. Unlike the original, her cookie contains dried pineapple and oatmeal. At first I was determined to leave [...]
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I’m snowed in! Okay not really, but it did snow this morning and that’s always an event here in Austin. I wish Fuzz had been home for the selfish reason that I missed seeing her reaction, but the snow didn’t start falling until after the last school bell rang. Along with being pretty, the snow [...]
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We had people at the house yesterday so I decided to try a few new recipes – not experimental, just tried and true recipes from other people. I wanted to go with crowd pleasers and made sugar cookies, oatmeal cookies and chocolate chip. The sugar cookie recipe wasn’t worth mentioning. Bleh. But I’m not going [...]
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They’ve arrived! After a two day trip from South Carolina, my Calypso Crunch Bites appeared in the mail box late this afternoon. I was so excited to try them and happy they arrived at what I call “the hungry hour”. Here’s a photo of how they were packaged… …and here’s one sitting next [...]
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A few weeks ago I got an email from a reader who wanted the recipe for “Calypso Crunch Bites”, a cookie she’d found at Publix grocery store. I’d never heard of the cookies and asked her for more details. She said they were thin, crispy, and the ingredients included coconut (listed twice), butter, flour, sugar, [...]
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