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Mom’s Glazed Blueberry Tarts
Easy tarts spread with softened cream cheese or mascarpone, piled high with fresh blueberries, and drizzled with blueberry glaze. When my mom got married, she moved directly from her parents home...
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Farmstand Cornbread & Blackberry Buckle
A twist on a blackberry buckle: easy cornbread cake covered by a blanket of luscious blackberries, topped by oat streusel. I’ve had a hankering to make a blackberry buckle for a long time. Every...
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Blueberry Bars with Peaches, Lemon, and Coconut
Secret Recipe Club: soft bite-sized cake bars topped with a smear of lemon curd, then packed with blueberries and peaches, and finished with a crumb topping. Clearly I was in a fruit bar mood when I...
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Polenta Cake with Honey Yogurt and Peach Preserves: #SundaySupper
With Valentine’s Day upon us, I wondered where and how this day of celebrating love and romance began. Unsurprisingly, it’s all a bit murky. First of all, there were at least two, and maybe three,...
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Nut-Free Anise Biscotti with Chocolate Chips
Bringing a new life into your family is cause for celebration. It changes your life, expands your world, and deepens the relationship with your spouse in ways you didn’t expect. For me and my husband,...
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Strawberry Oat Crumble Bars: #SundaySupper
In celebration of Memorial Day weekend, #SundaySupper is celebrating with Red White and Blue dishes. You’d think this would be an easy one, right? I mulled around a bunch of ideas for almost two...
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Strawberries and Skinny Yogurt Cheesecake Dip
Skinnified cheesecake-turn it into a dip, use low-fat cream cheese, and switch out the cream for Greek yogurt. Serve with strawberries for dipping. This week’s theme for the Food Network blog, FN Dish...
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Coconut Shortcakes with Grilled Pineapple: #SundaySupper
Summertime BBQs may be my favorite way to entertain. They’re casual and less structured than a winter dinner party, and I’m not constrained by how many chairs I can fit around a table inside our home....
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Summertime Cooking with Kids!
Cooking with kids in the kitchen reaps many rewards for everyone! My newest post published on Parade this week is about getting your kids into the kitchen with you this summer. The benefits are long...
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Plum Frozen Yogurt with Blackberries & Sage
Plum frozen yogurt with blackberries, honey, and sage – perfect treat on a hot summer day. The first year I got an ice cream maker, I made ice cream every weekend. In truth, I went a little crazy. I...
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19 Ways to Eat Cherries All Day, Every Day
The cherry season is way too short for me. So while these little beauties are in the markets, we snack on them in the car, add them to salads, purée them into soups, and add to grains dishes. They’re...
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Summer Peach Cake: #IsabelsBirthdayBash
Do you like surprises? I find that people usually have a position on this, and I admit I fall in the ‘don’t like’ side of the surprise issue. I don’t remember any horrible experience, and don’t think...
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Moscato Zabaglione with Strawberries
Zabaglione is an Italian dessert – essentially a beautiful little stove-top custard of eggs, sugar, and wine, made frothy by whipping tons of air into it. In France, it’s called sabayon, but getting...
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Sgroppino al Limone (an Italian Sorbetto Cocktail) | #SundaySupper
One of my favorite things about travel is discovering new dishes, and bringing them into my kitchen. I’m not talking about celery root foam, or other molecular gastronomy tricks. I mean dishes...
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No-Bake Pie: Margarita Pie with a Pretzel Crust
No-bake pie that tastes like a margarita, complete with salt from the pretzel crust! Sometimes I beg my husband to go to a Mexican restaurant just so I can slurp down (in a ladylike way) a good,...
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Spanish Tapas: Chocolate Toasts with Apricot Jam | #SundaySupper
Spanish tapas ready in under 15 minutes – Cinnamon Raisin toasts, smeared with apricot jam, and topped with melty chocolate for a quick dessert! I can be lazy. Maybe you know what I mean. The...
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Mini Strawberry-Rhubarb Crisps | #SundaySupper
Mini strawberry-rhubarb crisps with ginger and coconut, perfect for any party. The theme this week at Sunday Supper is Potlucks. Can you remember your first one? There may have been potlucks earlier...
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Grilled Peaches with Ginger a la Mode
Best way to make grilled peaches coated in ginger and butter, served with dairy-free coconut ice cream, and crumbled ginger cookies. Have you ever thought that the peaches you had in August tasted...
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Lagkage (Danish Layer Cake)
So this is it. The end of our Secret Recipe Club parties. Yes, sadly, this is the final month for Secret Recipe Club. And I baked a cake as a farewell gift to one of my favorite monthly rituals,...
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Strawberry Oat Crumble Bars
In celebration of Memorial Day weekend, #SundaySupper is celebrating with Red White and Blue dishes. You’d think this would be an easy one, right? I mulled around a bunch of ideas for almost two...
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