Telling food stories, one kitchen at a time
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Tell me these don’t deserve a gold star.
I was searching for Christmas Cookies on Pinterest and found a photo of Pecan Pie Cookies that looked 7 Days of Christmas Cookies worthy. Then I remembered a Bourbon Dark Chocolate Pecan Pie I made for Thanksgiving one time.
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Oatmeal Lace Cookies are dangerously crispy and light — yeah, you’re gonna eat a lot of these! This easy recipe for warm, caramel-y cookies will soon become a family favorite.
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It’s 2:43 am. I can’t sleep.
Which is so frustrating.
I was tired when I went to bed last night! And I’m tired now!
Maybe it was the four (large) cups of black tea between 4 and 8 pm last night.
Or that I left my favorite pillow in the next town over.
Or that my stomach is growling for the first time since Thanksgiving. (Yes, finally!)
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I finished this dip off yesterday on top of a thick piece of pumpernickel. Happy Healthy Sunday. Uh huhh.
Keleigh at Where There’s a Meal has been such a great blog friend! She posted Beet Dip recipe two of two on her blog today. Click here for the recipe. To read what I have to say about Keleigh, click here. To read what Keleigh has to say about herself and her blog, click here.
Expect to see this lady’s name and face and blog again — I’ll be asking her to do a guest post for me soon too!
Something short and sweet for you this weekend!
My favorite thing about ice cream is that it melts. I love to skim my spoon right over the top of a scoop to get that just-barely-frozen mouthful. I’ll order a cone and wait for it to get drippy, licking from bottom to top before it gets too messy. When I order a cup, I tip it to the side to spoon out that melty, shlurpable ice cream floating in the bottom.
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Check out my friend Keleigh’s blog, Where There’s a Meal, to get this recipe for Roasted Red Beet Hummus.
Keleigh is a wife and mother who writes that for most of her life, she hated almost all fruits and vegetables. (Whaaaat. –> veggie-lover talking here.) Her blog is about trying new foods (and lots of fruits & veggies) and it’s about making kid-friendly and picky-eater-friendly meals. If she is willing to eat beets, I feel like she has come a long way. It’s inspiring!
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We all know I’m a fan of the open-faced sandwich. I don’t think I’ve eaten a sammie with two pieces of bread since Mom packed me lunch in the 7th grade. By the way, when I was in the 7th grade, she used to send me to school with some kick-ass bagel sandwiches with horseradish. That’s right – horseradish. I was a cultured 7th grader. I probably haven’t eaten a whole bagel since then either. Now I’m just into halves. Or open-faces.
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My friends are growing up. We all get older, but I reserve the term “growing up” for those life events that are life-changing. Graduations. marriages. births. promotions. heartbreak. even travel can be life-changing.
In my experience, life-changing moments = abundance of food. And this weekend I was hit with two of those life-changing-decadent-table-spread-open-bar events – a baby shower and a wedding. Even my best intentions and pre-party pep talks of “You don’t have to eat cake just because there is cake” were not enough to actually keep me away from the cake. Or from the vino.
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