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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Granola Bars… errrmm.. Make that Candy Bars!

June 8, 2011

I have picky kids, and while I hate it, I do indulge them with what they want to eat at lunch time, and granola bars are one of the things I have been able to get them to eat with out too much fight. But I have to call them “candy bars”. And honestly, this [...]

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Sinful Chocolate Cake

June 1, 2011

Today, I just wanted to bake something, anything, just wanted to work in my kitchen. A friend suggested brownies, I decided that sounded good, but not quite what I wanted. Flourless chocolate cake was more on the money. All the players in today’s game. Chocolate chips, butter, sugar, cocoa powder, eggs, and vanilla. I decided [...]

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Darci’s 5 Alarm Enchiladas

May 25, 2011

I had been wanting to try my good friend, Darci’s Enchilada recipe for quite a while. And today, I did. I admit, I embellished the name of them a bit, but I think they deserve “5 alarm”. I toned my recipe down, didn’t add the jalapeno that she recommends, didn’t use nearly as much chili [...]

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Everything you want to know, and some you probably don’t want to know about me.

May 19, 2011

Where to begin? I suppose at the beginning, but I won’t go all Chunk on you from The Goonies I promise. I’ll start at the relevant beginning. My name, yes, I do have a name. My mom gave me the beautiful name Ami Nicole when I was just a peach-fuzzed headed baby. And even though [...]

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Scrumptious Strawberry Bread

May 18, 2011

First I must apologize for taking such a long hiatus- Look for the update on the reasons why very soon! I have missed baking, and now that things are settling down again, I needed to get back in the kitchen. I came across this recipe for Strawberry bread. I changed it up a bit and [...]

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