March 2011

S’mores Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies

March 31, 2011 | 37 Comments | Email | Print
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Welcome to today’s guest blogger, Jenny! Jenny Flake is the author of the family friendly, home style cooking blog, Picky Palate.  She is a proud home cook and an on the go mom to 2 little boys and wife to her high school sweetie. Jenny loves creating original recipes, capturing food photography and sharing her [...]

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Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes

March 30, 2011 | 23 Comments | Email | Print
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Today’s guest post comes from my wonderful sister, Lauren! Lauren is an Entertainment Producer and Graphic Designer, and she maintains a blog with all of her current design projects at LiLoLa Designs. You can follow Lauren on Twitter @LiLoLaDesigns and become a fan on Facebook. Recipe and text from Lauren. Photos from yours truly. When [...]

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Baked Doughnuts with Cinnamon-Sugar

March 29, 2011 | 66 Comments | Email | Print
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Today’s post comes from Tracy at Sugarcrafter. Tracy lives in upstate NY with her husband, kitty, and brand new puppy. Her blog, Sugarcrafter, is a baking and cooking blog that features from-scratch recipes using wholesome ingredients with step-by-step directions to give you the confidence you need to conquer any recipe. She also enjoys canning, hiking, [...]

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Salmon Pierogies

March 28, 2011 | 43 Comments | Email | Print
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While on vacation this week, I have some of my favorite baking and blogging pals lined up to share some wonderful recipes with you. Dara is kicking off the week with these awesome pierogies! Dara Michalski is the food-obsessed hockey fan behind the blog, Cookin’ Canuck, which is packed with easy, innovative recipes and step-by-step [...]

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The Weekend Dish: 3/26/2011

March 26, 2011 | 5 Comments | Email | Print
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As you read this, I’m somewhere along I-95 heading south towards the sunny Florida shoreline with my Chief Culinary Consultant. Ahh, vacation and a road trip! A pretty good way to kick off turning 31! I’ll be enjoying vacation for the next 10 days or so, so I have some guest posts lined up for [...]

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Tiramisu Cupcakes {For My Birthday Today!}

March 25, 2011 | 176 Comments | Email | Print
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Today I ring in the big 3-1. No longer am I merely 30, but I am in my 30′s. So weird, especially since I still don’t really feel too much like a grown up And as I like to do every year, I baked something new and different to celebrate with. It sort of reminds [...]

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Salted Peanut Chews

March 24, 2011 | 53 Comments | Email | Print
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Usually all it takes is me seeing the words “peanut” or “peanut butter” in a recipe title to get me to save it immediately. And sometimes it takes even less time for me to get my butt in the kitchen and whip it up. For some reason, however, these beauties slipped through the cracks. Part [...]

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Fruit & Almond Granola + Cookbook Giveaway

March 23, 2011 | 564 Comments | Email | Print
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I love granola for much of the same reason that I have always loved granola bars – it’s hearty, sweet, and usually full of all kinds of great nuts and fruit. For a long time I bought granola at the store and stirred it into yogurt or would eat it by the handful as a [...]

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Oreo Cheesecake Cookies

March 22, 2011 | 100 Comments | Email | Print
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If you know me, you know that I absolutely, positively love cheesecake. Cheesecake anything. Cheesecake everything. I have sampled countless different varieties of cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory, and I always come back to the Oreo cheesecake. I love many of them, but I’m such a kid when it comes to Oreos and I totally [...]

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Waldorf Salad

March 21, 2011 | 26 Comments | Email | Print
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Waldorf Salad is said to have been created between 1893 and 1896 at the Waldorf Hotel (now the Waldorf-Astoria) in New York City. The fresh salad almost always includes chopped apples, grapes, celery and nuts and is dressed with a mayonnaise and lemon juice dressing. I first had this probably 10 years ago or so [...]

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