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Roasted Butternut Squash Salad with Warm Cider Vinaigrette

November 4, 2011 |

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I owe you an apology. I have made this salad multiple times over the last two years and it is just now making it onto the site. Each time I made it was either for a Christmas or Thanksgiving celebration and as you might imagine, with a house full of people waiting to eat and [...]

Basic Pesto Recipe

July 19, 2011 |

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Fresh pesto is one of my absolute favorite summer indulgences. There’s nothing quite like picking basil from a container out on the deck (or from the bounty in your garden) and whipping up a quick batch. You can dress pasta with it, use it as pizza sauce, set it out as an appetizer with dipping [...]

Zucchini Pineapple Bread

June 21, 2011 |

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Although I’m not a huge fan of veggies, zucchini is such a comfort food of sorts for me. My grandfather passed away when I was 5 years old, and although I was young I was still old enough at that point to have some great memories of him. One is of him bouncing me on [...]

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 [...]

Nut Rolls

January 10, 2011 |

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I am a few weeks behind on the nut roll extravaganza that is usually reserved for the holidays, but as I mentioned a couple of days ago, the holidays just totally got away from me. I did a ton of baking for the week and a half leading up to Christmas, and a lot of [...]

Date, Coconut & Walnut Truffles

December 23, 2010 |

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This is yet another Christmas recipe from my childhood. My mom used to make these all the time back when I was growing up and she would bust out batches of cookies for the holidays. This is another oldie that I decided needed to be resurrected this year. The name on my mom’s recipe card [...]

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

November 29, 2010 |

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As you can tell from the picture, that trifle doesn’t exactly look like a cake. This was one of those “when life gives you lemons you make lemonade” situations. I was planning to make this carrot cake recipe for Thanksgiving dessert, to go along with the pumpkin pies that my great aunt was planning on [...]

Cranberry-Walnut Rolls

November 23, 2010 |

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These are phenomenal. Absolutely phenomenal. I was cleaning out my stack of Bon Appetit magazines from last year and came across this recipe. I have no idea how I missed it the first time around. As soon as I saw the combination of cranberries and walnuts in large-sized dinner rolls, I made it my business [...]

Russian Pound Cake

October 4, 2010 |

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There is something tremendously comforting about pound cake. It’s dense, buttery and, if baked correctly, supremely moist. This particular pound cake is kind of like pound cake on steroids. My mom said that waaaaaay back in the day when I was a mere apple in her eye, a lady she worked with brought this cake [...]