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    Dutch Letter Bars

    My sister bakes the best bars in the world. So much better than anything I can turn out. A couple of weeks ago she mentioned she wanted to bake a bit more (music to my ears)…

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    The Best Peach Jelly

    I’ve been on a canning kick lately. Through this, I’ve realized.  I ONLY enjoy canning jams and jellies. I canned pickles this week and they were ‘dill-licious’, but not as fun as beautiful jams…

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    Homemade Chicken Alfredo

    This meal of simple comfort food takes hardly any time to prepare and requires very few ingredients. We love the cellentani/cavatappi noodles in this dish. They hold their shape well and cling to the delicious homemade sauce. …

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    One Roast : Three Dinners

    One Roast = Hot Beef/Pork Sundaes, Beef & Noodles AND Crispitos… Sitting around the family dinner table seems to be a lost art to some folks. The amount of activities that our children are…

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    Iowa Sweet Corn

    This has got to be the #1 easiest recipe I’ve ever put out there for you all.  Iowa Sweet Corn is the best thing going, if you ask me.  This time of…

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    Blueberry Pie

    For all of the pie-purists I know, a two-crust fruit pie (meaning pastry crust on top and bottom) is the most cherished pie of all.  As a pie baker, if you are…

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    Peanut Putter Pie & Pig Show

    This is one of my favorite ‘easy-as-pie’ recipes to make.  It is sinfully rich and everyone loves it.  There’s ‘nary a crumb leftover.  Drink with a tall glass of milk.  I’m saying…

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    2 minute hot fudge

    Old fashioned hot fudge can be one of the most difficult things to create in the kitchen.  Cooking a mixture with butter, sugar, cream and chocolate to temperature (ie: soft ball stage)…

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    Simple Syrup Lemonade

    I’ve posted a few times about “Lemonade“, the real kind, my favorite drink ever.  (When I don’t have raging heartburn.) This is a recipe quite like that but I love it even more! Today…

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    Berry Lemon Sangria

    Sangria happens to be one of my favorite things that I don’t get to drink very often, mostly because I didn’t have a recipe.  My favorite part of Sangria: eating the fruit in…

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    The Bodacious BLT

    This past week we’ve butchered, cured, and smoked our own pork belly turning it into some of the finest bacon I’ve ever had.  It was amazing.  We’re going to tweak that recipe…

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    Ultimate Pork Breakfast Burger

    A while back I made the plain and simple “Dynamite Pork Breakfast Burger“.  My husband said it was the best thing he’d ever eaten.  He likes simple food and what dude wouldn’t…

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    Cream Cheese Surprise CCCs

    CCCs = Chocolate Chip Cookies.  Just throwing that out there to ya. Ever since my tour of the Blood Family Dairy in State Center, I’ve had milk-on-my-mind.  Cookies and milk are one…

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    Bacon Wrapped Crab Stuffed Shrimp

    Days like this are perfect for trying new recipes.  I love to do that when we’re locked in the house.  We were supposed to have a family day out with Dad, helping…