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Italian Tortellini Soup
This is one of the recipes that I “stole” from Dee’s house, from a Gooseberry Cookbook that she had out. What a great soup and a very easy soup to have on hand during the fall! 1 lb mild Italian sausage, casing removed 1 cup onion, chopped 2 large cloves of garlic, chopped 6 cups… Read more
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Three Sisters Salad
During our vacation in California these past 4 weeks, I had time to go through a friends stack of cooking magazines (which is one of my favorite things to do) and ended up taking a armload of them to make copies! So I came home with lots of new recipes that are on my “to… Read more
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Vacation Blues & Bloating
We just returned last night from a month of being in California and Arizona. What a wonderful time we had…but we are back to reality of grocery shopping, washing clothes and going through piles of mail. As we drove through Arizona and New Mexico, we had lots of time to reflect on this past year… Read more
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Apple Cake
We are hangin (trying to sound like a true valley girl) out in California waiting for cooler weather to arrive in Texas before going back. Randy is going ahead and buying our burial plots here as he doesn’t think that will ever happen. Anyhow, going thrierough a friends stack of cookbooks I just found this… Read more
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Chimichurri Sauce
We are at some of our precious friends home for a couple of days out here in California. Last night they treated us to amazing grilled steaks with this awesome sauce. Dee is kind enough to share recipes with me and when she showed me this recipe, I knew that I would be making this… Read more
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Orange Pound Cake (taken from Barefoot Contessa)
1/2 pound unsalted butter at room temp 2 1/2 cups sugar,divided 4 extra large eggs at room temperature 1/3 cup grated orange zest (about 6 oranges) 3 cups flour 1/2 teas baking powder 1/2 teas baking soda 1 teas kosher salt 3/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice,divided 3/4 cup buttermilk at room temperature 1 teas… Read more
Chocolate Castles 