PSA: Sweet Corn

August 10, 2011

This is a Public Service Announcement: Sweet Corn on the Cob is a vegetable. Please stop over cooking  your vegetables. I grew up a country girl, and if there is one thing I know, it is sweet corn. Corn on the cob was something my whole family looked forward to. First, you must have patience. [...]

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Yes, I am a space cadet!

August 4, 2011

I completely forgot I needed to write a blog for yesterday. So here is my pathetic attempt to make it up to you.  A little update on the hubs and the kids and I. So, we’ve moved! Yeah, it is kind of old news, considering we moved the last week in April, and it is [...]

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Food Fail #2 – Raspberry Crisp

July 27, 2011

I am not sure if it is me, or if my favorite go to people for recipes are just letting me down. This time I was looking for some sort of fruit baked good, and while perusing The Pioneer Woman’s Cooking Blog I found what looked like a magnificent raspberry crisp. It really is true, [...]

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Cookie Muffins

July 20, 2011

Over the winter I went on a recipe bookmarking rampage, anything and everything that looked remotely good got bookmarked, and promptly forgotten. In the last few weeks, I have been trying out these recipes. One such recipe is “Oreo Muffins” straight from Kraft Recipes. The ingredient list is simple, but magic happens in these muffins. [...]

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Food Fail #1

July 13, 2011

I was hoping today, to show you the gorgeous lemon meringue pie that I made for the hubs. Alas, it was not to be. Aftersome much deliberation if I should even share my fail here in this blog, I decided it would make a great story, and from now on my food fails will be [...]

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Lemon Curd Cheese Cake

July 7, 2011

You may remember my predicament from last week. The nearly 1 full cup of lemon curd being left over, and me having no idea what to do with it. I decided on cheese cake, just a simple plain cheese cake, swirled with the luscious lemon curd! Here are the step by step instructions on how [...]

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I have conquered Lemon Curd – Tomorrow, the WORLD!!!

June 29, 2011

Muahhhahah Ok, that was a bit sinister. Really, though I did try my hand at lemon Curd. Alton Brown’s Lemon Curd to be exact. The recipe was actually pretty easy. Not sure why I was afraid of it. Ok, so I did cheat a bit. Lemons are crazy expensive right now, so I had a [...]

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Recipe Review “Easy Homemade Double Chocolate Pudding”

June 22, 2011

Easy Homemade Double Chocolate Pudding by Lynn’s Kitchen Advendtures. I was in the mood for some chocolate pudding, so I went to my cupboard, and my cupboard was strangely and sadly barren of any type of pudding mix. My first reaction was to PANIC! How could I be out of such a staple? What was [...]

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Orange “stuff”

June 15, 2011

My family was in town, so of course that meant pretty much eating 24/7. One of our favorite picnic-y food is what has always been referred to as “orange stuff”. So many people assume it is ambrosia. Please do not make this mistake. It is not ambrosia. I can not stand ambrosia, I will never [...]

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