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Today’s recipe is a cookie tribute to a candy bar loved by dads across the country. Or at least that’s the hasty conclusion I’ve drawn based on the fact Beth Colvin’s dad loved Zero Bars and mine did too. So at least two dad’s like Zero Bars. If you’ve never heard of Zero Bars, they [...]
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I never latched on to the new Pretzel M&Ms…..something about the pretzels displacing the chocolate bothered me, even though I very much like pretzels with chocolate. But now there’s this. The M&Ms people (or maybe this is all Ms. Green’s doing since she’s featured so prominently on the bag) have mixed their candy with almonds, [...]
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Baby Ruth bars used to be everywhere — at the grocery store, gas station, car wash vending machine and the bait store near my granddad’s house, right between the Lance Crackers and the Chick-o-Sticks. Acquiring the Baby Ruth for this cookie recipe was about as challenging as as finding Skor Bars, and like …
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Today’s cookie was inspired by an old Pampered Chef recipe which called for one of their special batter bowls, a stoneware pan, spatula spreader and probably another product I missed while scanning the directions. What I was interested in was the dough, which turned out to be a great vehicle for miscellaneous Halloween candy. …
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Earlier this week, Judy from Judy’s Kitchen challenged me to a peanut butter cookie taste test. She wanted to put her candy filled peanut butter cookies up against my (not so) humble criss-cross cookies. Fine, I said. Then I looked at her recipe. Frankly, it’s an apples-to-oranges situation and won’t work …
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Growing up, we had a tradition of buying my dad a big carton of Whoppers on his birthday. They were his favorite, and he’d keep them on his dresser along with other off-limits items like his wallet and watch. Let me tell you, Whoppers taste better stolen off dressers. I’ve had to change my ways, though. Neither Fuzz nor [...]
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I’ve had Lady Bird Johnson on my mind today, so I decided to cook up a few of her specialties. I found her famous lemon square recipe and was all gung ho on on trying her version, but I only had one lemon and couldn’t go to the store because Fuzz had a friend over. [...]
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