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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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    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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    Cookie Slam-wiches

    Today the ROD or ‘recipe of the day’ is a sweet one.  These delicious filled chocolate chip cookies will satisfy any sweet tooth. The recipe is much like my original favorite chocolate chip cookie…

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    Drake’s Cake

    Yesterday we celebrated what would have been a very special little one’s birthday in my family.  I baked a cake and will officially call this kind of cake “Drake’s Cake”. It is…

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    cherry pie

    Last year my husband and I had a great time in Door County, WI with my best friend Brandi and her husband Ron.  We stayed at a beautiful resort and toured around…

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    Fluffy Biscuits & Fire Alarms

    Master’s Sunday usually equals = SuperNap Sunday in this house.  Couple the golf tournament on television with dreary/rainy conditions and this could have been a great nap-day. NO.  We didn’t nap at…

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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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    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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    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’…