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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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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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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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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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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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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I found myself going through some photos yesterday and I ran across quite a few from our commercial finishing barns that I had taken a few years ago. They are a flashback…
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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 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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This simple addition to cut fresh fruit elevates it tremendously.…
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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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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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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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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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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…














