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If you have a celebration coming up or are just looking for a flashy but easy fruit dessert, I heartily recommend the Triple Berry Mousse Tart from Orchard’s Finest. After trying it this week, Todd proclaimed it one of the best desserts ever. (!!) Now he could have meant one of one hundred best [...]
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Today’s recipe is an old family favorite and one I don’t make often enough. It’s called Millionaire Pie, and I first tried it years ago at a cafeteria here in Texas. I like to play around with the recipe and prepare it various ways, but today I made the traditional version with crushed pineapple, sweetened [...]
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This weekend I had dinner at a Cuban restaurant in Atlanta. The dessert offerings were key lime pie and mango pie, but it was one of those dinners where everyone eats so much that by the dessert hour, no one really cares about it no matter how enticing it sounds on the menu. But …
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After all that talk about Top Chef: Just Desserts, I missed it! We recorded the show, but after settling in to watch the Top Chef finale, I drifted off to sleep before the new Top Chef was even announced (though I did wake up briefly to find out who it was). So I’m a day [...]
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One of my mom’s favorite pies which definitely falls into the “better than the sum of its parts” category is Luby’s “Butternut Brownie Pie” which has nothing to do with brownies at all. It’s a pie made with baked egg whites, graham crackers and lots of nuts and it’s delicious. I like it so much [...]
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Some days there’s nothing better than a bowl of chips, salsa and an ice cold margarita. Or that’s what they say. I never order margaritas. I always order beer or wine with my chips because margaritas are more of a dessert and they fill you up and ruin the meal. This pie is perfect because [...]
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Today’s recipe has been endorsed by the Better Homes and Gardens Test Kitchen! Well, sort of. I entered this into BHG’s monthly contest (Theme: Chocolate Syrup). It didn’t win and it didn’t get published, but it made their honor role. They sent me a framed certificate and a stack of hole-punched recipe pages designed to [...]
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Grasshopper Pie 1 1/4 cups chocolate cookie crumbs (32 Famous Wafers) 1/3 cup butter, melted 4 cups mini marshmallows 1/4 cup granulated sugar 2 tablespoons butter 1/3 cup crème de menthe (green type) 1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 1/2 cups whipping cream 2/3 cup Andes Mint Chunks –or- 6 ounces of Andes Mints Stir [...]
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