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Fruit & Almond Granola + Cookbook Giveaway

March 23, 2011 |

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 [...]

Waldorf Salad

March 21, 2011 |

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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 [...]

Blueberry Bagels

February 21, 2011 |

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There are few things in the kitchen that bring me a greater sense of satisfaction than baking with yeast. Whether it’s bread, rolls, English muffins, pastries or bagels, I just adore it. I made my first batch of homemade bagels almost three years ago and still can’t get enough of them. I began with the [...]

Banana Cupcakes with Vanilla Pastry Cream

January 21, 2011 |

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Since I have embraced summer in January this week, inspired by the S’more Nut Bars, I thought I would follow up with these banana cupcakes. As I have mentioned pretty much every single time I make a cupcake recipe, I am a huge, huge, HUGE frosting fan. Adore frosting. Eat it by the spoonful when [...]

Apple Cinnamon Bread

January 7, 2011 |

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Still no chocolate or copious amounts of butter or sugar to be found in the Brown Eyed Baker kitchen. I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m still operating in non-sweets mode over here. After the oatmeal muffins yesterday, I continued on with this ah-mazing quick bread recipe. Seriously amazing. As with just about all quick [...]

Homemade Caramel Apples

October 29, 2010 |

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Halloween weekend is upon us and if you’re looking for a last-minute treat to whip up for some of your favorite Trick or Treaters, these caramel apples will definitely fit the bill. Growing up, I adored caramel apples and although I only ate maybe one per year, I was always excited to try a different [...]

Banana Nut Bread

September 17, 2010 |

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Growing up, there was never a lack of things to eat at my Grandma’s house. There were tins filled with pizzelle and biscotti that were never empty. I mean, never. They were always sitting, filled to the brim, on the last step near the dining room. One of my favorite days were the ones when [...]

Dutch Apple Pie

September 15, 2010 |

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I can’t think of a better way to welcome fall with open arms than with a piled-high-to-the-sky apple pie. When it comes to apple pie, I’ve always fallen sort of in the middle when choosing between double-crust and Dutch crumb. It’s no secret that I love crust, so the more crust the better (which was [...]

Banana-Nut Oat Bran Muffins

September 7, 2010 |

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These healthy banana-nut muffins are the very first recipe that I can remember learning how to follow and bake. My mom began baking these when my dad found out he had high cholesterol, and soon they became a weekly ritual. I always wanted to help make them, and at first I was given the job [...]

Toasted Almond and Candied Cherry Ice Cream

August 20, 2010 |

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Well, I finally polished off the Fresh Strawberry and Chocolate Fudge Swirl Peanut Butter ice creams, making lots of room in the freezer for a new flavor. A couple of weeks ago I was thumbing through The Perfect Scoop while sitting with my grandma and she asked what types of ice cream recipes were in [...]