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  • Jumbo Oatmeal Cranberry Chocolate Chip Cookies

    I start thinking about making recipes with cranberries as soon as the fall season comes around and bake them all winter long, through Valentines Day! Cranberries, whether they’re fresh or dried, are such a classic fall and winter ingredient. It just wouldn’t seem like Thanksgiving or Christmas without cranberries, would it? And because these cookies have…

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  • Bite-Size Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies

    I never have enough time to make all the holiday cookies I’m wanting to! Because making those pretty, festive cookies does take up quite a bit of time. That’s where this recipe comes in handy. It’s easy, because cake mix makes up part of the dough, but these cookies still look pretty and festive with the…

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  • Cream Cheese Mints

    I love the taste of peppermint and mint–flavored sweets. If you like minty sweets too, you need to try these easy homemade Cream Cheese Mints—but watch out, because they’re kind of addicting! They have a rich, creamy, minty flavor and I like them more than I thought I would—which makes them dangerous for me to have around! So I’ve…

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  • Gifts that Change a Life from World Vision and a Giveaway!

    The Giveaway is now closed The Christmas shopping season has begun once again and gift-giving is on everyone’s mind…the perfect time to tell you about some gifts that help improve the quality of life for struggling children and families living in extreme poverty in the U.S. and around the world. The 2016 World Vision Gift Catalog invites you…

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  • Popcorn Cauliflower Nuggets

    This recipe had me at the word “popcorn,” being the popcorn-lover that I am. But it actually doesn’t have anything to do with popcorn; it’s a roasted cauliflower recipe, flavored with some spices that really give it some punch–chili powder, cumin, and paprika. I found this recipe in The Quick Six Fix, a cookbook by Stuart…

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  • Holding Tight to the Permanent One

    “How quickly things change. Life is a given until it isn’t,” writes Amanda as she shares about her father’s battle with cancer. “For a long time, nothing was certain except that life was uncertain,” Raechel adds, as she describes the brokenness in her childhood home. Two women, two stories–different, yet not so different from yours or mine.…

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