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Baking

  • Cookies, Dessert

    Blue Tin Butter Cookies

    These rich and tender cookies are simply made and easily eaten. They transport me to simpler times. I’d like to think (though my cooking contest recipes would disprove this idea) that basic recipes, prepared…

  • Dinner, Lunch

    Authentic Focaccia Bread

    In my kitchen, you’ll seldom find me happier than when I am baking bread.  Yeast breads are the comfort food of my youth and something I truly enjoy baking.  Focaccia bread is…

  • Dinner, Lunch, Snack

    Sandi’s Butter Dips

    The recipe for Butter Dips is one of the most coveted family recipes that I’ve gained in my recipe book in the last year. These delightful tender biscuit like fingers go with virtually…

  • Food & Swine

    2014 Top Recipes

    These are the top reader-selected recipes on my blog for 2014.  There are still a few out there that I may include in a later post, but for now, all of the recipes…

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    Grandma Madeline

    This week I lost a very special person in my life.  My Grandma Madeline passed away on Monday morning.  She was the inspiration and motivation for many of my different baking adventures.  She…

  • Food, Food & Swine

    Sugared Jam Tea Cookies

    This cookie recipe is one that I’ve always kept my eye on in the first baking book I received for my birthday a few years ago.  It is still the best baking book…

  • Food, Food & Swine

    Little Farmer Cake

    This week, my son turned 3 years old.  The build up to his birthday was nothing crazy, but he had a definite opinion about his birthday cake.  He repeated over and over…

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    Giant Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Giant Chocolate Chip Cookies are the favorite cookie of this house as of late. I’ve tinkered with this recipe from the original Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chip cookie recipe you’ll find on the…

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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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    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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    Simple Farmhouse Bread

    If you possess a fear-of-yeast and have little to zero baking knowledge or bread baking experience, Simple Farmhouse Bread is a great basic recipe to start with. This bread is soft, tender and makes the…

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    Caramel Pecan Rolls & Cinnamon

    Caramel Pecan Sticky Rolls: With the earnings of this winning recipe, I bought a show pig.  “Cinnamon” (the mythical female pig) was on my mind for a long time after I’d banked some…