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cooking with friends
Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies With white chocolate chips, cranberries and coconut
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Blueberry Bread, A Reflection of Life
Sometimes things just don't go right in the kitchen. Last week, it was as if a bomb exploded in my oven. As smoke rose and the aroma of burnt blueberry bread swirled about the kitchen, I watched a disaster form in my new oven. What do you do when you have an epoch food failure? Or really any kind ...
Cooking with Friends Party Time!
A few times a year I will donate my time for a charity event. Last night it was for a group of twelve fellow fifth grade parents who won a Cooking with Friends evening at a silent auction. When I run a cooking party, my life stops for two straight days as I'm hyper focused on prepping and ...
Marscapone Cream Filled Strawberries
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Busily Baking with Barberries
When I get a new ingredient to bake with, I'm always eager to call my friend Suzy to help me create new recipes. She's the ideal friend to test and taste since she's always honest and will tell me what she really thinks. Yesterday, still soaring with excitement after my successful dinner ...
Barberry Orange Scones
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Sweet and Salty Seared Shishito Peppers
Sweet and Salty Seared Shishito Peppers. Say that three times in a row! This couldn't be a simpler and more scrumptious snack to throw together. The combination of brown sugar and sea salt balances the pungency of the peppers perfectly. (Say that three times!) Sorry for all the alliteration -- I ...
Sweet and Salty Seared Shishito Peppers
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Fiddle-de-Diddle Fiddleheads
What are those strange looking tightly curled up things? The ones that look like "rolled up asparagus" to my ten year old. Fiddle de diddle, they are Fiddleheads, a strange and wondrous vegetable that look and taste like no other. And they are in season, farm fresh, here in the Garden State (New ...