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Each morning, I start my day the same as I did the day before…with breakfast.  I don’t think I’ve skipped breakfast a day in my life.  And every day, I have the same thing for breakfast– a bowl (or two) of some kind of healthy cereal, usually something with the words twigs or bark featured [...]

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All of the following went into the production of these delicious Lemon-Cream Cheese Cupcakes:  Laughter, tears, love, exasperated sighs, hugs, rolled eyes (that was me), encouragement and repeated requests  orders not to eat the cake batter.

I let my toddler help me bake them.  Don’t worry, nobody got hurt in the making of these cupcakes.  It can be a real challenge [...]

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I Suffer From PTCD

Posttraumatic Cooking Disorder, that is.  I thought I would never enter the kitchen again after my last cooking fiasco.  Thankfully I was wrong.  The recipe on the can of Libby’s pumpkin has been tempting me for months.  It took a visit from Matt’s out-of-town nephew this weekend to help me conquer my fear.  Here is [...]

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I Spoke Too Soon

Word to the wise: When a recipe says 6-8 hours, it’s a direction, not a suggestion. 

This is my attempt at Slow Cooker Orange Chicken (if you click on the link, you’ll see how it was intended to appear) after sitting in the crock-pot for 10 hours.  So instead of coming home to a scrumptious dinner, I ate a [...]

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I don’t cook very often.  When I do cook, I usually burn or otherwise harm the food.  So when I actually make a Luscious Four-Layer Pumpkin Cake that resembles the picture from the magazine and tastes delicious for my dad’s birthday, I like to document it with a picture:

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