July 2011
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Strawberry Jam Babycakes + baking when it's so...
…I call cupcakes babycakes when they are minis.
I haven’t made these cupcakes in almost a year but was feeling like strawberry is a good summer taste.
“But Cora, it was 100+ degrees, why on earth did you turn the oven on?” you say… well, I broke it up. On Friday, wearing my bathing suit and apron, I made the batter.
I also made a mess. I haven’t gotten...
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Variations On A Cookie Dough OR Sugar Cookies: 2...
On Saturday I baked. I finally used my new *stand mixer and was so very happy to start my day with sugar, measuring cups, summer tunes and more. I began with a snickerdoodle recipe from my Flour book.
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Anyway, so I made the dough and was forming it into little balls and rolling them in my cinnamon sugar mixture and because I was making them little, I had about a...
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Birthdays are my favorite.
Last week I turned a quarter of a century and had a lovely couple of days celebrating my birthday. As a whole, I like birthdays, I like them a lot, and of course, I like my birthday the most. I think I get this from my mother. She believes employers should let everyone take their birthday off and always made me feel extra special and reminds me of “the journey we started together”...
There's a large box in my room.
It’s my birthday present to myself and it came in the mail today. I am so unbelievably excited and can’t wait to tell you all about it.
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Making, but not baking: Simple Summer Salads 2 of...
This one is called Shoepeg Corn Salad, and has even less ingredients.
Ingredients:
cherry or grape tomatoes
fresh parsley
shoepeg corn (it’s a sweeter, usually lighter-colored corn, and is labeled shoepeg)
mayonnaise
This salad involved a little bit more prep work, but not much.
Half the tomatoes and chop up the fresh parsley. Usually I use about 1-2 containers tomatoes, and 1-2...
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Making, but not baking: Simple Summer Salads 1 of...
To me, my mother is the queen of thinking of interesting things to combine and make tastey. She’s also really good at whipping up gigantic delicious meals in a really short period of time.
I bring you what we call: Broccoli Slaw Salad
Suggested* Ingredients:
broccoli slaw (you can buy this in a bag in the produce section)
pecans
sunflower seeds
dried cranberries
mayonnaise
Mix it...
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