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Todd’s been a little fixated on Key lime pie. He kept looking for it on menus at Disney World (because we were in Florida, and that much closer to The Keys), and lately he’s been talking about going to Key West just to eat pie. Sounds fun, but expensive. We have to save for Fuzz’s [...]
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This is our favorite butterscotch pie recipe, and since the last time I posted a 7 inch version, I decided to re-post the recipe for a more useful size (9 inch) pie. Hopefully some of you will try it, because it’s a very good rendition of classic butterscotch pie. Sue shared this recipe a few [...]
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In honor of Julia Child’s Birthday on August 15, today’s recipe is a tribute from one of her past students, Chef Janina O’ Leary of Austin’s Trace restaurant. Chef O’ Leary, who trained at New York’s French Culinary Institute and had the opportunity to study with Julia Child, was advised by Child to apply for [...]
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Would you believe this rich, creamy, chocolate ice cream is made with only three ingredients? Okay, four if you count the fact I made one tiny addition. But the original recipe is comprised of JIF Chocolate Hazelnut Mocha Spread, Cream of Coconut, and half-and-half. I found the recipe on JIF’s website (while …
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This recipe is from a Costco cookbook acquired on a Black Friday at Costco. Not by me, because you’d never find me at Costco on Black Friday, but by a kind friend who let me have it when she saw me looking wistfully at it in her kitchen. The Costco cookbooks (she actually gave …
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So I recently acquired another outstanding cookbook — Perfect Pies: The Best Sweet and Savory Recipes from America’s Pie-Baking Champion. The “pie baking champion” being Michele Stuart, National Pie Festival champ, Bobby Flay’s Throw-Down contestant, and owner of Michele’s Pies in Norwalk, CT. One of these days I’ll try the Chocolate-Pecan-Bourbon Pie, the Maple Walnut Pie, [...]
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As promised, here is the link to the Super Simple Homemade Ice Cream we made at Smucker’s. You don’t need an ice cream maker to make it and it calls for very few ingredients, so I’d say it lives up to its name! The basic recipe is for vanilla, but using the tricks I …
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Delta Airlines made the Biscoff cookies famous; or at least in my mind. I remember flying somewhere on Delta and being served this really good cookie. At the time, I wasn’t as obsessed with cookies and forgot the name, but luckily others were more astute and I began to see the name “Biscoff” referenced as [...]
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