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  • Food & Swine

    Mini Corn Muffins & Harvest

    We’re celebrating the upcoming fall harvest today in our house.  Corn Muffin Thumbprints are delicious little bites of heaven, with delicate pieces of fresh corn studding each muffin. They are baked, cooled and…

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    Double Chocolate Whoopie Pies

    Whoopie Pies are one of my favorite desserts. I’m more of a cake girl, than pie girl… I’ll be the first to admit.  These cookie-pies (that’s my son’s nickname “Cookie Pie”) are…

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    Snickerdoodle Muffins

    Snicker-doodle Muffins are lightly spiced, tender, cinnamon muffins with sweet spiced cinnamon sugar streussel on top.  These are easy to throw together and my kids absolutely attacked them.  They are delicious warmed…

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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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    Recipe: $2,000 Cherry Danish

    $2,000 = Tender yeast dough + Lemon Cream Cheese Filling + Cherry Red Raspberry Filling + Vanilla Almond Icing = Cherry Danish Long version of the recipe: “Cherry Red Raspberry Cream Cheese…

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    $2,000 Cherry Danish

    Yesterday was a big day in the Food Department at the Iowa State Fair for me.  Opening day is always a high dollar contest day there.  I entered the Tone’s Spices Recipe…

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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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    $3,000 Pie

    My pear pie brought $3,000 at an auction. Read on. Last night I had the privilege of attending the Corndog Kickoff with my husband, Mom, Dad, cousin Erin and her husband Ryan. …

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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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    Champion Cinnamon Rolls

    Cinnamon rolls could be considered my ‘best recipe’.  They were the first contest I’d ever entered and the first contest I’d ever won ($500).  Lucky me, I guess.  This recipe has been…

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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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    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…