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Strawberry-Walnut Spinach Salad
This easy-to-make salad is tossed with a homemade honey-sweetened dressing that is so good! Although this is a spinach salad, you can substitute your favorite mixed salad greens for the spinach if you like. It’s a good and healthy way to enjoy fresh strawberries in the summertime!
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Carrot-Zucchini Bread
I’m a big fan of carrot cake and zucchini bread, so I came up with this recipe that combines the two! It’s a really tasty way to eat your veggies! 🙂 Topping this moist, flavorful bread with a yummy cream cheese frosting just seemed like the right thing to do, and I decided I might…
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Seasoning a Cast Iron Skillet
I really like using my large cast-iron skillet. When I first bought it, I didn’t realize I would have to season it (this was before the seasoned versions came out). It sounded time-consuming, so I put it off for awhile. But when I finally took the time to do it, I discovered how easy it…
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Raspberry-Lime Freeze
Today the high was 96 degrees, so I was really ready to have something nice and cool. In this Raspberry-Lime Freeze recipe, the raspberry and lime flavors go so well together…it’s really refreshing!
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Honey-Balsamic Peas and Carrots
I never used to be a big fan of peas and carrots. When I was growing up, our family would eat those frozen-packaged peas and carrots (the ones with the carrots cut into little block shapes). Putting a pat of butter on them helped a little, but it was hard to get excited about having…
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True Wisdom
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. —JIM ELLIOT
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Basil Mayonnaise
The first time I had basil mayonnaise was over 10 years ago, when I bought a jar of it to try out at Williams-Sonoma. As soon as I tasted it I was hooked! It was my new favorite thing to spread on bread and use in sandwiches.
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Blueberry Buckle
I never understood why a Blueberry Buckle was called a buckle until I made this. But I’ll get into that later. 🙂 I had heard of Blueberry Buckles, but had never made one or eaten one. I looked up a lot of buckle recipes and combined the things I liked best about these recipes into…
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Never Too Old
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. —C. S. LEWIS
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Banana Pound Cake with Banana Glaze
I had two bananas that were getting really ripe the other day. Just for a change, I wanted to make something a little different than the typical banana bread. After a little searching, I found a recipe from Taste of Home that only used two bananas, so it was the perfect time to try it…
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Sprinkles’ Strawberry Cupcake Recipe
A few days ago, I did a post about Sprinkles: The First Cupcake Bakery. And now I’m posting the Sprinkles recipe for their delicious strawberry cupcakes! I didn’t get the recipe from Sprinkles myself…my friend Stephanie told me I could find it over at MarthaStewart.com. Somehow, Martha was able to get ahold of this wonderful recipe! 🙂 I…
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Sprinkles: The First Cupcake Bakery
I had heard about the wonderful cupcake cafe in Beverly Hills called Sprinkles, but had no idea that it was the world’s first cupcake bakery! The owners were sure on to something when they opened in the spring of 2005…the cupcake craze continues to grow and so do the number of cupcake bakeries. Sprinkles itself has…
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