Tag: from the kitchen
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S’MORE GRILLED CHEESE PLEASE
Ok, I just want to say this is not very healthy-that’s my disclaimer, I will take no responsibility for breaking anyone’s diet. But this is a yummy treat that you can spoil yourself with every once in a while 🙂 While I was in Cincinnati my husband and I stopped by Tom + Chee. We saw…
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LAYERED ICE CUBES
We love making homemade popsicles. And the other day my 4-year-old asked if we could make some popsicle ice cubes-as he calls them. They are so easy and a perfect little treat for the summer. We used grape juice, orange juice and limeade. I just put about a teaspoon of each juice in the ice…
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SHORTBREAD COOKIES
Recently I saw these shortbread cookies made with beet frosting and I thought they looked cool so I decided to make some like it. I decided to skip the beets and go with a raspberry, orange and lime glaze instead. I had never made shortbread cookies before and they were really easy and pretty good…
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APRIL FOOLS’ DAY MEAL
A few years ago I made this meal for my kids for April fools’ day. Now, they want this meal all the time especially when we have people over for dinner. Everyone we serve it to loves it and the kids love trying to trick the guests by telling them that we get to eat…
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ST. PATRICK’S DAY CUPCAKES
I really wanted to try making a marshmallow buttercream frosting because I had some leftover marshmallow from the s’more donuts I made. Also, we have a little stockpile of Girl Scout cookies, so I wanted to incorporate those some how. I ended up with these yummy chocolate cupcakes. For the cupcakes I used this box…
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CHERRY BBQ PULLED PORK SANDWICHES
When I was in Northern Michigan, I stopped by one of my favorite stores, American Spoon. I picked up some preserves and cranberry mustard, along with this BBQ sauce. I found one of the American Spoon recipes for this BBQ Sauce, some cherry BBQ pulled pork sandwiches. Cherry BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwiches: (recipe inspiration here) 5 cloves…
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peanut butter chocolate chip cookies
We all know I love sweets, especially chocolate. These are some of my favorite chocolate chip cookies. These are the chocolate chip cookies my mom would always make, so needless to say, I have had quite a few of these in my lifetime. {I put some in a little mason jar to give away to a friend}…