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    Old Fashioned Dinner Rolls

    Do you need a Thanksgiving dinner roll recipe?  Here’s the best dinner roll recipe I’ve ever made, and it is all yours!  This recipe (or some form of) is responsible for over 20%…

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    Easy Pumpkin Mousse Pie

    Move over Pumpkin Pie.  Your creamier, dreamier, luscious cousin is going to steal the show this Thanksgiving.  You still reign ‘standard’ in the lineup of desserts on the spread of the Thanksgiving…

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    Snowball Cookies & Sows

    Russian Tea Cookies, Mexican Wedding Cookies, Snowball Cookies… they are one in the same. An old fashioned, tender little cookie that is quick to pull together and bake. My Grandma always made these when we…

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    Homemade Bread Bowls

    One of my very best friends brought the idea to me that I should host a baking class on homemade bread bowls and hearty soups.  Instead of hosting the class, I’m going to…

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    Ginger Spice Cookies

    This is the favorite ‘seasonal’ cookie in my trusty recipe book.  These soft, rich cookies, flavored with molasses, ground ginger, and cinnamon are surely going to be a family favorite of yours. …

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    Pumpkin Pie

    Pumpkin Pie… need I say more?  This is a deliciously perfect recipe for pumpkin pie and it happens to be the first recipe I ever shared on my blog.  I use lard…

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    Tallest Chocolate Cake

    This weekend, my Dad had a birthday and I have made it tradition to bake birthday cakes myself.  I don’t bake cakes often (birthdays only, usually), so when I do… I want…

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    Mom’s Fresh Apple Cake

    Fresh Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Caramel Sauce is the most delicious cake I’ve ever eaten. In fact, this may be my MOST favorite recipe to date.  I promise. Growing up, each fall when…

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    Comfort & Cornbread

    My ultimate comfort food is any type of yeast bread (see: Simple Farmhouse Bread), but quickbreads like cornbread and apple bread come in a close second.  This cornbread recipe was born out…

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    Homemade Bacon

    Pork Belly + Whiskey + Honey + Curing and Smoking = Bacon Fantasia.  Seriously, could life get any better?  We butchered a pig recently, a Duroc barrow (Cookie Dough’s bro) and we…

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    Top Secret Kettle Corn

    Sweet and salty Kettle Corn is our family’s number one, favorite snack.  My husband grew up eating lots of popcorn and he’s passed down his love for it to the kids.  A couple…

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    Pumpkin Caramel Pecan Rolls

    As promised!  The sticky-roll version of pumpkin cinnamon rolls.  These were the favorite of my Dad.  I snuck him a warm roll up into the combine and he took a mini-break to…

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    Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls

    I have been nipped by the ‘baking bug’ as I’ve spent quite a bit of my time recently with my family, helping bring the crops in for Harvest 2014.  Time in the…

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    Caramel Apple Sundae

    Perfect caramel sauce is hard to come by.  This sauce is wonderful for dipping apples, or for making a caramel apple sundaes. It comes together easily and pretty quickly too!  Candy thermometers need…

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    Meat & Veggie Skillet & Fall

    We’re deep in the heart of harvest time and as many of you know, that leaves little time to get healthy meals on plates at the end of the day. I frequently get asked…