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The origin of Ranger Cookies is unknown, but here’s my theory. The recipe has been around since the 1930’s which coincides with the beginning of the radio program, The Lone Ranger. The Lone Ranger was a “serial” and Rangers contain “cereal” so maybe someone named them Lone Ranger cookies because of the cereal …
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I found this recipe 30 years ago on the back of a Golden Grahams box, and even though I was only about Fuzz’s age, I was smart enough to know that something made with dry breakfast cereal could never come close to the real thing; because If you think about it, s’mores are the perfect [...]
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I make homemade granola all the time, but I also like trying various packaged brands. I usually buy the ones with flax or hempseed, but lately I’ve been buying the granola from Cascadian Farm. It’s slightly lower in fat than some of the others, and it’s big and clumpy which makes it easier …
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I found this recipe in one of my stepmother’s cookbooks. It’s either from “Catholic Women’s Desserts” or “Sunrise Beach, We’re Still Cooking!” If I’d bothered to take notes I would be able to give you the exact source, but I didn’t match the recipe with the book. Luckily, my stepmother took some notes. In fact, [...]
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A few weeks ago, Fuzz went over to a friend’s house and ate dry Kix cereal for a snack. She liked Kix so much she asked me to buy a box. I did, and we’ve been munching on them all week. That they would eventually get baked into a cookie was inevitable. I’m not an [...]
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Before making OCG’s version of the famous compost cookie, I asked a few of my NYC based friends what they thought of the cookies…because naturally, they’ve been to Milk Bar multiple times. Reviews were mixed, but almost every person mentioned just how much she/he loved the composts cookie’s brother, the marshmallow corn flake chocolate chip [...]
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We went to visit my mother this weekend and she gave us a huge box of German cereal. It’s called “Multi-Fit” and it looks and tastes like Special K. I’m not sure why Austin grocery stores are selling German cereal, but I guess there’s demand because my mom said a friend told her …
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