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Gingerbread Granola
It has been awhile since I have posted a granola recipe. It has been awhile since I have made granola. I needed to remedy this issue. Granola makes great gifts and I usually have a jar or two under the...
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Mulling Spices
What smells like Christmas to me? That’s easy…cinnamon, cloves, and allspice. What tastes like the holidays to me? That’s easy…something warm, spicy and mulled. These mulling spice mixes are easy to...
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Grilling Rubs (in a cool gift box)
Over the years, I have cobbled together different spice rub recipes. They are copied on envelopes, written on receipts, torn from some long ago published magazine. Some are emailed to me from...
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Elixirs for Xmas: Winter-Spiced Vodka
I have always been fascinated with infusions but I have never attempted any. This year it will be different. I am planning on giving many liquid gifts this year and have been doing some early...
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Spiced Grape-Orange Jam
Last year our grape harvest was a bust with the Japanese beetles eating their fill and leaving little to none for us. This year, I was able to harvest a colander full for grape jam. (In years past,...
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Maple-Chai Pumpkin Muffins
The Halloween pumpkin that I decorated with a stick-on mustache, google eyes, and a crooked drawn-on smile yielded lots of pumpkin purée. This pumpkin purée came in handy this weekend as I baked and...
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Two-Potato Vindaloo for Food ‘n Flix
Food ‘n Flix is partnering again with Cook the Books. (The last time these two great clubs got together was all the way back in January 2013 for The Hunger Games.) This time around, our assignments...
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Christmas Simmering Spices
I love making wassail during the holidays, mostly for the aroma that permeates throughout the holiday house. It would be mighty expensive to keep a wassail bowl simmering throughout the season....
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“In My Kitchen” March 2021
By the time this posts, I hope that I have seedlings of tomatoes and peppers popping up in the green house. I cannot wait to get out and garden especially after the two weeks of snow and below...
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Healing Spices review and a roasted cauliflower recipe
It’s rare that I do a book review that is not a part of Cook the Books Club or TLC Book Tours or Book Club Cookbook. Today I am reviewing a book I received for Christmas. Mom told me about it but...
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