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quick and easy

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    Old Fashioned Lemonade

    I love real honest old fashioned lemonade.  Not the fake kind with millions of ingredients.  Simply: Lemon, Sugar & Water.  That’s all. My daughter has the same love for simple lemonade. She…

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    Hasselback Potatoes

    This is one of my favorite fancy-sounding side dishes.  These potatoes are so easy to prepare and use a very limited amount of ingredients and are customizable, which as you know… I…

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    Banana Monster Muffins

    Muffins: the perfect excuse to eat cake for breakfast.  I love muffins and I certainly love cake.  These delicious muffins are the perfect way to use up those ripe (or even overly…

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    Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies are exactly what they say: cookies with three kinds of chocolate.  They are divine, if you want a rich decadent cookie.  The lower flour content makes these cookies…

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    quick garlic cheddar biscuits

    If you’ve ever been to the chain restaurant “Red Lobster” you’ve probably gorged yourself on these delicate little biscuits.  I’ve changed the recipe up a little bit, using a touch of dill in…

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    Healthier Ham Balls

    I think you’ll be hard pressed to find a recipe that is more ‘Midwest’ than this one.  Ham balls are one of my favorite childhood recipes.  My Mom makes divine ham balls…

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    Soft Little Snickerdoodles

    This week I ran out of (gasp!) butter. That has happened one time in my last 4 years of dedicated baking. I always have lard on hand and needed to make some cookies for some…

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    Light Shrimp Pasta

    This recipe is for my beautiful, sweet and caring friend Tiffany.  I promised her a seafood dish today (since it is Friday during Lent, you know) and this is one of my favorites.  It…

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    Healthy Korean Style Beef

    This is one of my favorite quick cooking beef recipes, a modification of this recipe won a blue ribbon at the Iowa State Fair for the “Healthy Beef Appetizers” division, sponsored by…

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    Peach Crisp

    If you’ve attended one of my pie classes you’ll know my affinity for a nice crumb topped pie.  This very topping minus the pastry bottom is exactly what I go for when…

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    Lemon Ricotta Pancakes

    When I traveled to NYC this past October with my husband for being a winner in the Kenmore Honored Harvest Time Recipe Competition for their 100th Anniversary I met a city that I…

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    Chicken Pesto Pasta

    Here’s the first of many (hopefully) 10 Minute Dinners I plan on featuring at my blog. I’m always into anything that is quick and easy and incorporates the ‘stuff’ I tend to…

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    Corn Muffin Thumbprints

    This recipe was awarded one of the first blue ribbons I ever took away from the Iowa State Fair (2010) cooking and baking competitions.  I won the breads class within the “Fresh Corn…

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    scotcheroo puppy chow

    How did I miss that it is National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day?  (I already missed the National Pig Day memo… sheesh). I gave 8 softball pitching lessons today and 9 if you count the…