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The Very Best New Year's Eve Wonton Appetizer is a Caramelle

The Very Best New Year’s Eve Wonton Appetizer is a Caramelle

Let’s face it 2021 can’t come soon enough. We are all looking to celebrate a new beginning. Our guest list may be smaller, but our appetites for creating new, fun and delicious appetizers will always remain. So grab a glass of your favorite sparkling beverage and let’s make my recipe for Crispy Mushroom Won Ton Caramelle. This is my first holiday appetizer entry for the Twin Dragon Wrapper…

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Toasted Coconut Biscotti with Chocolate Espresso Drizzle

Toasted Coconut Biscotti with Chocolate Espresso Drizzle

Jump to Recipe Toasted coconut biscotti is one of those must-have Christmas cookies in my house. The trouble with making biscotti is dealing with a sticky dough that has to be shaped into loaves. I don’t know about you, but my loaves always turn out wonky and a bit uneven. So, when I saw that USA Pan created a biscotti pan I was all in. In fact, I bought two of them. Not finding a recipe on the…

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Surprise-Surprise-Fennel Apple Pie

According to google analytics my recipe for Fennel Apple Pie is trending. I’m old and not even sure what “trending” means, but I think it is a good thing. I wrote this recipe nearly 7 years ago, but just recently I saw a certain contestant on a popular holiday TV baking show create a version of this pie. It’s a delicious combination of seasonal flavors and it came as no surprise that the…

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Roasted Sesame Crusted Cod with Haricot Verts & Lemongrass Basil Sauce

Roasted Sesame Crusted Cod with Haricot Verts & Lemongrass Basil Sauce

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It’s all about that sauce

Are you ready for a quick and easy meal featuring fresh, sustainable seafood bursting with the tang and spice of lemongrass and basil? While we are at it let’s keep it clean, healthy and appealing for those on special diets like keto, paleo, gluten-free and pescatarian. Say “hello” to my Asian-inspired roasted sesame crusted cod with crisp tender…

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The Best White Thai Chili

The Best White Thai Chili

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mild coconut curry sauce

I am taking part in the Kevin’s Natural Foods Eat Clean Live Happy Blogger Challenge. It’s holiday time and I am delighted to share this recipe with you! It’s a bold new take on chicken chili, but can also be twisted up to use those Thanksgiving turkey leftovers.

only good ingredients

Aromatic and full of flavor my White Thai Chicken Chili features…

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Meringue Kissed Lemon Pudding Pie with Wild Berry Jam

Meringue Kissed Lemon Pudding Pie with Wild Berry Jam

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photo courtesy of Eggland’s Best

Bursting with flavor my Meringue Kissed Lemon Pudding Pie with Wild Berry Jam is one of my most requested family recipes. Friends and family from Hawaii to Massachusettes and places in between know this one is, “Better than Birthday Cake”. There is no finer compliment than to have someone try my recipe and share their photo creations with me. It…

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The Best Cauliflower Steaks with a Trio of Sauces

The Best Cauliflower Steaks with a Trio of Sauces

The crisp autumn weather has arrived ushering in a new bounty of one of my favorite vegetables. Do you love cauliflower as much as I do? Whether it’s riced, roasted or mashed this seasonal love of mine can always use a refresh. Say hello to cauliflower steaks with 3 new sauces. Talk about flavor, convenience and health.

This is my vegetarian entry for the Kevin’s Natural FoodsEat Clean Live…

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The Best Buttery Everything Bagel Bisquick Biscuits

The Best Buttery Everything Bagel Bisquick Biscuits

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I concede this is not my finest hour. Convenience products are not my jam, but once in awhile even I must admit they just make sense. I grew up in a household filled with an array of convenience products. Everything from canned soup to boxed cake mix was trendy back then. My mom fully embraced the ease of getting dinner on the table for 5 hungry kids using these products. She…

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Gold Star Moms and a Cookbook

Gold Star Moms and a Cookbook

Let’s talk about the real Gold Star community and not the current political nonsense. Just for the record when my son died in 2011 I wrote to the then President and the first lady. In my naivete, I thought the President might have some answers and the first lady, a mom like me, would offer some comforting words, but I got nothing. No personal response from those in the White House made me feel…

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For Your Meditation "Whenever someone sorrows, I do not say, "forget it," or "it will pass," or "it could be worse" -- all of which deny the integrity of the painful experience.

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The Best Sourdough Discard Banana Bread

The Best Sourdough Discard Banana Bread

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In these uncertain times there is one thing I know for sure. People find comfort in baking bread. Trending all over the internet are the most beautiful moist loaves of banana bread and artistic sourdough boules, baguettes and focaccia. Clearly, there are two kinds of bakers. Those who like to get a quick sweet fix in a banana bread and those that prefer the long, often days…

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Let's Meditate

Let’s Meditate

We cannot re-create this world…We cannot even, truly, re-create ourselves. Only our behavior can we re-create, or create anew. ~Alice Walker

Healing After Loss meditations by Martha Whitmore Hickman

All winter, in many parts of the country, the earth has lain brown and barren—or covered with chilling snow.

But beneath that apparently lifeless earth the roots of plants have maintained…

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The Best Strawberry Kropsua For Two

The Best Strawberry Kropsua For Two

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In a world where good news seems scarce let me simply share a sweet recipe guaranteed to brighten your day and put a belly-satisfying smile on your face. This recipe for Strawberry Kropsua is kind of a cross between a pancake, a crepe and a souffle, but reminds me most of a popover.

looks like a popover

Kropsua is Finnish for pancake

In the photos above you will notice how the…

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Garden Lessons Learned & The Best Rhubarb Tart

Garden Lessons Learned & The Best Rhubarb Tart

Earlier this month I trusted some internet information which led me to a huge garden blunder. I planted my much cared for indoor tomatoes outside too soon. The weather turned cold and especially windy just days later and being away from home I was unable to protect those beauties. Mother Nature took a toll on the plants, but they held on. Today, in spite of their ravaged leaves they continue to…

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Never A Good Time To Say Good-Bye

Never A Good Time To Say Good-Bye

Good and faithful friends are hard to find, but saying good-bye to one is even harder.

they shared the same birthday

It’s been 15 years since this sweet fur baby found her forever home with us. She was discovered abandoned in a box on a soccer field in Winston-Salem, NC. At the time, my daughter was a college student there at Wake Forest University, home to the Demon Deacons. With school…

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Strawberry Stuffed Sourdough Puffy Pancakes

Strawberry Stuffed Sourdough Puffy Pancakes

Yes, I can’t deny that I’m a day late and a dollar short on Mother’s Day, but I’d feel terrible if I did not share this one with all my strawberry and sourdough lovers. And if you don’t have an aebelskiver pan, well, you must go out (strike that due to COVID19), I mean order one on-line because serving this recipe to your friends and family guarantees you rock-star status in the kitchen.

Stra…

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Grab & Go Cranberry Crunch Bars

Grab & Go Cranberry Crunch Bars

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a healthy on-the-go snack

Healthy On-The-Go snacks are an essential for busy families. Whether you are a mom waiting on dance class to let out or a student suddenly having a snack attack during a long lecture, or just need a tasty break from work, having a handy, grab & go energizing snack can be a game changer.

However, quality store-bought snack bars can be expensive and…

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