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  • Food & Swine

    Peanut Butter Bars

    Do you share your recipes? This recipe is one of the first recipes that I thought enough to ask someone for way back in July of 2009. (Before I began baking more…

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    Oatmeal Fudge Ribbon Bars

    A great pan of bars is extremely nostalgic to me, as my Mom was the queen of baking them. Aluminum 9×13 pans flanked every church picnic, potluck and birthday party of my youth. This…

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    Pretty Oreo Pops & Party

    Last weekend I got to throw a party for the arrival my beautiful new niece.  She is so special to me and I just can’t get enough of her. The recipe I…

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    Cream Cheese Mints

    This is one of those recipes that was on my list of ‘oh I couldn’t possibly make thaaaaat’.  My excuses ranged from not having mint molds to not having candy-finesse and finally…

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    EASY Red White and Blue Crisp

    Today was a big day of helping my Dad in the field, cleaning house and preparing to leave next week for the Sutter Home Winery’s Build A Better Burger competition.  I’m so…

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    Perfect Cheesecake

    I will be the first to admit that cheesecake *wasn’t one of my favorite desserts before I created this recipe and wrote this post today.  I studied a few recipes and noticed…

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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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    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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    Perfect Lard Pastry & Pear Pie

    I couldn’t call this blog Food & Swine without giving you a fabulous recipe for Perfect Lard Pie Crust and a recipe for my favorite pie. Lard is my second favorite ‘pork product’…

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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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    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…