Hanging with the Cake Creators
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12, 2020
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08, 2020
Things-We-Love Mashup
I love crepes! I love Nutella! I love whipped cream, although it's more of a supporting actor in this yummy Nutella Crepe Cake. This project was not hard at all. Crepe-making is easy, if time-consuming. Otherwise, I didn't work any harder than mixing together creamy good things. I nabbed the recipe from www.sweetenquick.com, a now-inactive website. Nutella Crepe Cake 24 to 28 crepes [...]
7
06, 2020
Kid-Friendly, Hot Weather Yummy
This Strawberry Cream Dessert dirtied a lot of bowls. However, I made it with the help of grandchildren, who not demonstrated great graham-cracker-smashing skills, but excellent bowl- and spatula-licking skills. We also fed some to a fellow whose only solid food so far has been strained carrots. It may be hard to go back to the carrots.
10
05, 2020
English Muffins Died For This
I wasn't sure family members would go for this dessert. But, said my daughter, "You had me at 'bread pudding.'" Bread Pudding Pear Pie smelled wonderful coming out of the oven. Kinda wish a subsequent batch of French toast smelled that good. We'll just make this one a photo essay.
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04, 2020
The Oven Broke But She Persisted
As if any of us need extra disasters, challenges or roadblocks right now, here they come anyway. At our house, it was the oven. My husband, cradling a raw chicken in his hands, hit the pre-heat button and heard something go POP! And the oven died. He is the handyman type, also the web-savvy type. If things break, he tracks down the hoses and [...]
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11, 2019
Book vs. Brownie. Who Wins?
Let’s just get this straight, first off: You won’t like this week’s book. I read James Baldwin’s book — actually it’s more of an essay, or a couple long letters — The Fire Next Time just because I’m up for hearing people out. Baldwin is a black writer and an angry man. One can see why. We know blacks have suffered generations of indignities [...]
7
09, 2019
Yes, I Do Love Cookie Dough
I slip out of town now and then, and I need friends who will perform my duties at church while I'm gone. I sure want these people to know how much I appreciate them. The last time they helped me out, I delivered a little Edible Cookie Dough (chocolate chip version) to their houses. This stuff is easy and I always have the ingredients [...]
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08, 2019
Like a Ding-Dong Cake
We weren't likely to get Ding-Dongs as treats in my childhood home. Why would Mom buy treats in a box when she could talk us into baking them ourselves? But who knew how to make a Ding-Dong back in the Nixon era? Anyway, I feel a tad deprived. Now we have internet cooks who offer up the cake version of a Ding-Dong. [...]
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07, 2019
When Bananas Die
Bananas come to my house to die. I have good intentions. I know the potassium is good for lots of things. Still, I turn around one day and there they are, brown, squishy and dying. I know, I know, make banana bread. Except I don't particularly like banana bread, not enough to use up that many bananas. Banana bread brownies, however, just might catch on [...]
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07, 2019
Salted Caramel Fix
I don't know if you have boarded the salted-caramel flavor train, but I climbed on it long ago. The gateway drug was Sanders salted caramel chocolates, which you can buy at Costco (Don't order these wonderful things. Go. To. The. Store. Chocolate doesn't ship well, and certainly not in July). I haven't had my fix lately, so this recipe for Salted Caramel Apple [...]