Recipe Rewind: Strawberry Shortcake Cookies

I wait all year for berry season.  Fresh fruit is my absolute favorite food – just about any kind of fresh fruit – and by extension, I’ll always choose a fruit dessert over chocolate.  I’m weird like that — what can I say?  So when I saw these cookies in the May 2009 issue of [...]

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Frozen Dark Chocolate Silk Pie

When we got married, hubby and I were on the young side – me especially.  I was 23, and hubby was 27.  Now we’ve been married for over 6 years and it’s safe to say we’re just as obsessed with each other now as we were then.  Possibly more so.  Of course, being married for [...]

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Cinnamon Applesauce

Put your hand up if you, like me, get absolutely crazed during the week between Christmas and New Year’s.  I’m currently preparing for houseguests (my lovely mother-in-law and her sister are visiting for Christmas 2.0 this coming weekend), which means I’m cleaning and organizing like a maniac.  Part of my organizing frenzy is the always fun [...]

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Maple-Date Banana Bread

Happy Thanksgiving!  Do you have your stretchy pants ready?  Marshmallows for the sweet potatoes?  Tofurkey roast defrosting?  Oh, who am I kidding?  Of course you do.  After all, Thanksgiving dinner is the meal we’ve all been preparing for all month, isn’t it?  You don’t need me to tell you what to have for dinner tonight.  [...]

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Minted Fruit Salad

Fruit salad is one of my favorite foods.  Growing up, it always seemed like a special treat to have fresh fruit salad.  Now that I’m an adult (according to the government, anyway), I get to have fruit salad whenever I want… and I want a LOT of fruit salad.  Several mornings a week, I’ll throw [...]

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Banana Crunch Bread

Over the weekend, I got the urge to bake.  That hasn’t happened in awhile, so I went with it.  I pulled some ripe bananas out of the freezer (I have a stash – impressed?) and looked for a fun new banana bread recipe.  I found a recipe for “Banana Crunch Muffins” in the original Barefoot [...]

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Apricot-Honey Tart

Honey, you will love this. Apricots.  Honey.  Ricotta.  Vanilla.  What else can I say? Oh, I can think of one thing: YUM. YUM seems to happen when my fabulous friend Rebecca is visiting.  She was in town recently and we squeezed in some kitchen time, as we always must do.  Sightseeing is important, no doubt.  [...]

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Pretzel Turtles

One of my favorite places to visit in the DC area is Old Town Alexandria.  I first discovered Old Town as a 1L.  I really, really needed to get out of DC and away from law school for a few hours one day, so I rode the Metro down to King Street and walked up [...]

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Cinnamon-Chocolate Fudge

Hubby had just one request for the Superbowl: fudge.  We saw Giada make this cinnamon-chocolate fudge as part of her football snacks episode on “Giada At Home,” and ever since then, hubby has been wondering how he made it through so many football games without fudge.  Now, I like chocolate fudge just fine – generally, [...]

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Angel Kisses

I’m going to put my money where my mouth is: these cookies deserve to be called angel kisses.  They are shaped like kisses, but they’re as light as clouds in heaven.  Not to mention that eating them is, quite literally, like being kissed by an angel.  That’s right, they’re that good. Okay, angel kisses is [...]

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