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  • Book Review: The Most Beautiful Disaster

    I received a review copy of this book; all opinions expressed are mine. “This is a book about how God can take your brokenness and your mistakes and make something beautiful out of them,” Hope Carpenter writes in the introduction of her book, The Most Beautiful Disaster: How God Makes Miracles Out of Our Mistakes…

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  • Honoring and Remembering

    Photo by Karolina Grabowska on Pexels.com Home of the free because of the brave. —Unknown Today we honor and remember, with so much gratefulness, those who have bravely served and made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.

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  • Local Blueberry Crisp

    Depending on where you live, blueberry season may be here already or getting close. Whether you pick your own blueberries or buy them at the farmers’ market or grocery store, baking with fresh blueberries is the best! I first made this recipe for Local Blueberry Crisp when I did a review of The Freds at…

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  • Lemon Brownies with Lemon Glaze

    Here’s another recipe for all of you lemon-lovers out there—I recently did a post on Easy Lemon Bars, and these Lemon Brownies are full of lemon flavor, too! They have a dense, brownie-like texture with plenty of lemon yumminess in every bite! I adapted this from a recipe I found at Rita’s Recipes. I used…

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  • Wallace Station Pimiento Cheese

    If you’re not familiar with Wallace Station, it’s a popular restaurant just outside Midway, Kentucky. It’s one of the “family” of restaurants in that state owned by Ouita Michel, one of the authors of the new cookbook Just a Few Miles South: Timeless Recipes from Our Favorite Places (Sara Gibbs and Genie Graf are also…

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  • Lemon Curd Blueberry Cake

    I had some lemon curd I wanted to use up, and I came across this recipe from Good Housekeeping that looked so good! A lemony cake with lots of fresh berries—yum! And I could just imagine how good the lemon flavor would be with the lemon curd in this cake! I thought I made it even…

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