Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me. -Audrey Hepburn Leap through my time warp back to my childhood. Every birthday that was had… The best chocolate explosion cake was served. My mother even shipped me this cake when I was away working …
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A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. -Benjamin Franklin 7-Up Cake might sound a bit strange but I assure you it might be one of the most moist bundt cakes you’ll make. It has a light tangy lemon lime flavor that will blast you back to holiday dinners …
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“If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.” -Robert Browning There is an advent calendar that is sweeping the internet. This isn’t the kind where we get to open a little cardboard door and get a chocolate that day. Nope. It is about friendship, love, food …
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath. -W. C. Fields It is not hard to make a cheese crispy. Takes about six minutes to make them start to finish. My crew loves a cheese crispy with a homemade soup, stew or salads. Just another fun addition to a meal …
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I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land. -Jon Stewart I know how meals go down at my place but I often wonder what is really being served around those tables elsewhere. …
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“Opie, you haven’t finished your milk. We can’t put it back in the cow, you know.” – Aunt Bee Taylor Warmed hazelnut vanilla milk came from our love of Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf’s steamed hazelnut milk. I had to give up my passionate love affair with coffee (for health reasons), a few months …
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“It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding.” -W. Edwards Deming This rice pudding recipe could be considered a “lighter” version of the old traditional rice pudding that I grew up loving. Nothing wrong with whole milk and butter at all, in moderation. It ends up so creamy and great anyway, …
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Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time. – Henri Frederic Amiel Our kids love hot chocolate, especially as the winter months bring cooler temperatures, when we go camping, during “s’mores nights” by the fire pit and …
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Penny: I’ll tell you what, next french toast day, I’ll make you oatmeal Sheldon: Good lord, are you still gonna be here next french toast day? – The Big Bang Theory French Toast is not a hard dish. It requires ingredients and patience. If you wait for your pan to warm before you begin, you …
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“Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on Golden Delicious.” Frosted Apple Cake is dense, moist and also made from most things found in the pantry. When I get a great deal on apples, this is one of the first apple treats coming out of my oven. It definitely …
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“You have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake. It needs to be the yeast.” -Mallika Sarabhai One of the kids had a sick pal so we dropped off her school work at her house. When her mom opened the door, the chocolatey scent drifted out to the porch with us. I asked …
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If you look over the years, the styles have changed – the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it’s really the same. – John Oates This may be the easiest most delicious cake you’ll …
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“Your mind has turned to applesauce.” -Steely Dan For years I purchased the convenience of applesauce in a jar at my local market. Honestly, I just never gave any thought to making it myself when it was so handy. Fall often brings excellent prices on apples and my crew starts requesting that I make hot …
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“Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.” – Thomas Aloysius Dorgan This little gem was brought to us by locusts, oops… I mean teenagers. What happens when you have made a delicious dinner for your family and suddenly the number of people in your …
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“Newman, you wouldn’t eat broccoli if it was deep-fried in chocolate sauce.” -Jerry Seinfeld to Newman in ‘Seinfeld’ TV series When we order out for Chinese food, we always get an order of beef and broccoli too. It is a favorite of most of the family. Except Luc, he’s going through an anti broccoli phase …
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