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December 10, 2010

Stained Glass Cookies for Recipe Friday

Four or five years ago, I was baking cookies for Christmas and my son (who was 10 or 11 at the time) was helping. Although they are not a traditional Christmas cookie, I was making some peanut butter cookies because both my son and my...

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December 3, 2010

Pecan Pie for Recipe Friday

I took the day before Thanksgiving off this year to hang out with my son and do some baking. I knew I wanted to make coconut macaroon cookies, but I also wanted to make a pie for Thanksgiving. After all, Thanksgiving just isn’t Thanksgiving without...

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November 19, 2010

Apple Stuffing for Recipe Friday

Last week I bought a package of stuffing from my local Safeway bakery. The other night I decided to make it to go with the Cornish game hens my son was making. The recipe on the package called for adding onions and celery, but I...

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November 12, 2010

Polenta with Marinara for Recipe Friday

This is a new recipe that I just came up with the other night. I had purchased a roll of pre-made polenta at the store. I know, if you’re a purist you would cook your own polenta, but life’s too short and this stuff is...

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November 5, 2010

Beef Stew for Recipe Friday

Last week I posted a new recipe for Moroccan Beef Stew. Today it’s back to one of my old standards – regular Beef Stew. I made this on Halloween and a friend dropped by with her son, who was going trick-or-treating with my son. She...

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October 29, 2010

Moroccan Beef Stew for Recipe Friday

So far on Recipe Friday I have shared old standards of mine that I have made many times. But this week I have a brand new recipe that I just came up with last weekend. It came about by the convergence of two circumstances: (1)...

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October 22, 2010

Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes and Ham for Recipe Friday

I love scalloped potatoes and ham. It is great comfort food. I haven’t made it in a long time, but the other day at the grocery store I bought a ham steak so that I could make it some time soon. My mom used to...

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October 15, 2010

Green Beans for Recipe Friday

My all-time favorite vegetable is green beans, also known as string beans. When the farmers market opens in the spring, I go every week looking for the first green beans of the season. We eat them at least twice a week all summer long. So...

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October 8, 2010

Goulash for Recipe Friday

This is another of my favorite easy recipes. I always have the ingredients for this in the house, and my family loves it. There are a lot of recipes for goulash out there and this one probably doesn’t look like a lot of the others...

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October 1, 2010

Rice Stuff for Recipe Friday

I know, “Rice Stuff” isn’t a very good name for a recipe. But I made this last night and when we said our usual dinner prayer — “Come Lord Jesus, be our guest, and let this _______ to us be blessed” — in which the...

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