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Recipes and Cooking

A Spring Girl’s Night in Party

May 7, 2012
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I recently got the opportunity to host a Girls’ Night In party, so I asked my friend Tracey if she would like to help me out by having the party at her house. She has a beautiful dining room, and she was more than ready to get it spruced up for spring The party was [...]

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Tart Baking with Lauren

April 11, 2012
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My beautiful and sweet niece, Lauren, was home a few weeks ago and she was in the baking mood.  I’m so proud of her for cultivating her domestic skills so well and she has gotten into making these beautiful tarts.  She was going to a book club meeting while she was home and so she [...]

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Homemade Strawberry Pie just like Shoney’s

April 3, 2012
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Our family grew up going to Shoney’s.  A lot!  That was one of our favorite places to go after church on Sunday nights and we spent many evenings hanging out with the young people and older folks from our church.  Big Boys and french fries were my faves back then.  And there were many times [...]

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Philly Style Mac and Cheese

March 29, 2012
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Time for one more recipe with Knorr, using Knorr’s Beef Homestyle stock.  This one is a cheesy pasta bake, Philly Style Mac and Cheese that I found in the February/March Taste of Home magazine.  They have a lot of down-home style recipes that are crowd pleasers and this is one of them.  If you love [...]

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Asparagus Risotto

March 13, 2012
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It’s been fun to see what sort of recipes I could come up with using Knorr Chicken Concentrate Stock and this one is definitely a keeper.  I love Risotto, no two ways about it.  It’s fancy Italian rice and has a creamy, yummy texture and flavor.  Asparagus is at peak this time of year and [...]

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Beef Soup with Root Vegetables featuring Knorr

February 26, 2012
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Recently, I got together with my friend, Judy, for a little girl’s night in.  We cooked up a big pot of soup, she invited another friend over, and we had a wonderful comfort meal of soup around her harvest table.  This wintry weather we have had lately is the perfect time to cook up a [...]

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Bacon and Butternut Pasta with Knorr

February 14, 2012
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Happy Valentines Day! Are you dining in or eating out for the heart holiday?  In case you’d like to get cozy with a home cooked meal, here’s a great one for you to try, whether it is today or later on.   However you celebrate Valentines Day, I wish for all of you a wonderful day [...]

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Southern Living Hummingbird Bundt Cake

February 8, 2012
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The Southern Living magazine always gets my mom’s attention when the latest issue arrives in the mailbox, especially the recipes inside.  This one is in the current February issue.   She succumbs to trying out desserts often and when she spied this Hummingbird Cake, an updated version done in a Bundt pan, well…you can imagine how [...]

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Kickin’ Baked Rigatoni

February 1, 2012
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Pasta has always been one of my favorite comfort foods, and today I’m sharing a really great recipe with all of you that my family raved about. When the opportunity came along to try out a new recipe using PAM®, one of the staples in my kitchen for many years, I was eager to try [...]

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Apple-Cream Cheese Bundt Cake

January 5, 2012
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In the September Southern Living, on the cover in fact, is a beautiful apple cake with cream cheese inside.  It is delish!  My mom has made it a few times already this Fall and Winter and it’s definitely a keeper.  File it away in the recipes. It’s in the September issue of Southern Living and [...]

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Atlanta’s Mary Mac’s Tea Room

January 3, 2012
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With Christmas coming, I never had time to share my birthday outing and this place is worth sharing.   Callanwolde wasn’t the only stop we made that day. Dining out in Atlanta is a fun event and one of the spots that I have only been to a couple of times is Mary Mac’s Tea Room. [...]

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Chocolate Salted Caramel Pretzel Bark

December 31, 2011
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Sometimes I am just minding my own business, flitting through Twitter and I see a Tweet I have to check out.  That’s the case with this candy recipe treat I found last week and just HAD to make.  My Christmas was not going to be complete until I tried this yummy treat, so I got [...]

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Portobello Beef Stew with Cranberry Pilaf

December 27, 2011
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I’m back today, sharing the final recipe for the year with Knorr beef concentrate stock.  I found this recipe in one of my mom’s Taste of  Home magazine and it sounded so delicious and comforting for winter months.  I loved the sound of all the ingredients together. The older folks don’t always go for exotic [...]

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