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Chicken Pot Pie
A friend once told me that one night each winter his whole family gets together for Pie Night. Everyone brings a pie. Some bring dessert pies, others bring meat pies. Pies are so wonderful in the winter. Pies stay warm for a long time and warms the heart all night. Pie Crust This is the…
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Cranberry Apple Crisp
It’s Christmas Eve, the wee one is asleep and we’re finishing up the last of the presents. Time for a little midnight snack. This Cranberry Apple Crisp makes kissing by the Christmas tree taste so good! Ingredients: 3 organic granny smith apples, peeled, cored and sliced into 1/2 inch strips 6 oz fresh cranberries 1/4…
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Gingerbread Cookies
It’s the afternoon before Christmas Eve, and my 8-year-old daughter is itching for something to do. Presents are wrapped. Too early for a movie. We turn into Cookie Monsters and bake up a batch of Gingerbread Cookies! Ingredients: 3/4 cup (or 1 1/2 sticks) organic butter 3/4 cups organic brown sugar 1/2 cup molasses 1…
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Crunchy Pizza
Shakey’s Pizza in the Philippines has this super awesome pizza on their menu: Pepperoni Crunch. It’s a thin-crust pepperoni pizza with potato strings on top to make it crunchy! We’d order that with a tall tower of rootbeer and some mojos. Delish! Now that we’re back stateside, we miss it. So I got out my…
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Granola Recipe
Warm freshly baked granola is a breakfast treat. Cold not so freshly baked granola is fun snack. You could put it in a mason jar and give it away for Christmas too. Here’s how to make it. Ingredients: 4 cups old fashioned rolled oats 1 cup raw wheat germ 1 cup chopped walnuts 1/2 cup…
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Halloween Party Food Menu
Every year we throw a Halloween party to celebrate my daughter’s birthday. We have a big family with many young cousins, so that alone makes the parties pretty big. In addition, my daughter likes to invite her whole class to the parties as well. Not everyone comes, of course (whew!) but we usually get at…
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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
This recipe was passed on to me from my husband’s grandmother, who sent us care packages of her special Pumpkin Cookies every Halloween. Mammie used Crisco Oil and it made her cookies very moist and last for weeks. I used organic canola oil as a healthier alternative, and this makes the pumpkin cookies moist, light…
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Banana Crumb Muffins
I love bananas, but sometimes a bunch of them start turning brown in the fruit basket and they have to be rescued, stat! If I have only two bananas left, I make Banana Bread or this basic Banana Muffins recipe. If I have at least three bananas, this is what I do: Ingredients for Muffins:…
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Strawberry Tart
Ingredients: 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour, unbleached 1/2 cup finely ground almonds 1/3 cup organic sugar 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind 1/4 teaspoon salt 6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) organic butter, cut into pieces 1 egg, free-range and organic 1 teaspoon vanilla 3/4 cup seedless strawberry jam 1 teaspoon lemon juice 2 pints organic strawberries, hulled…
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Banana Bread
Ingredients: 5 tablespoons butter, softened 1 cup organic sugar 1 large egg 2 egg whites 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 very ripe bananas, mashed 1 3/4 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon baking powder 1/3 cup walnuts Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease bottom and sides of a…