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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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Thanks to Taneka, who sent me an interesting recipe using Halloween candy, I’ve managed to pull myself out of the post-Halloween funk. Taneka first encountered these cookies on a dessert tray, passed around at a wine dinner. The chef was nice enough to give her the recipe, and I am glad he did because these [...]
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