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Continue reading →: Honey Maple Buffalo SauceMy husband and I have a deep and unsettling love for buffalo wings. Bad day? Buffalo wings. Hangover? Buffalo wings. Great day? Celebratory buffalo wings. It’s a problem. Not one of those problems that you’re really mad about, just a delicious mess maker of a problem that you’re kind of…
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Continue reading →: Freshly Brewed Ramblings
In the past 12 work days I have consumed over 60 caffeinated beverages. There’s really a perfect storm going on here that’s enabling my consumption and it’s that I started work in a customer service call center, I work until 8pm, and coffee and tea are FREE! I should have…
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Continue reading →: Lemon Yogurt CakeLemon is probably one of my all time favorite flavors. Lemon drops, lemon Italian ice, chicken piccata, lemon meringue pie, lemon squares, you name it I probably like it. This cake came about because I wanted something lemoney but simple since we were living in Brighton and our kitchen was…
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Continue reading →: Papa PancakesIf you know me and have ever wondered where my formidable streak comes from take a quick peek at my dad and Papa (my dad’s father). If you’ve ever been on the receiving end of a heated “discussion” with Papa and the hawkishness of his eyes as he reprimands you,…
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Continue reading →: Mostly-Veggie ChiliSee? Rob and I DO eat vegetables. Quite a lot of them, actually. This recipe originally started as a Weight Watchers recipe (one-point chili) and has evolved into whatever I want it to be on the day I make it. Sometimes I make it with ground beef, sometimes with steak,…
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Continue reading →: Apple TurnoversThey look beautiful, they taste nice, but after two days of this nonsense the novelty has worn off and I’m grumpy. This grump factor is easily avoided by not being the lunatic that makes your own puff pastry dough. I took the Cook’s Illustrated approach to this recipe to see…
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Continue reading →: Puff Pastry DoughThis entry is not PG-13. Puff pastry dough makes me want to grind my teeth and yell obscenities at it to make it do what I need it to. Oh wait, I did that. This morning after two cups of Starbucks Komodo Dragon Blend, a gift from my friend Rachel…
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Continue reading →: ApplesauceWhat do you do if you have two crisper drawers in the fridge full of apples on the brink of getting mushy? If you’re me, you look in a cookbook and say, “ooh I can make that, but first I need to make applesauce and puff pastry dough from scratch.”…
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Continue reading →: Welsh Cookies (Cakes) – Clarks Summit PAYesterday I went to the store. “Today is the day” I thought. “I have coffee beans in my basket, the store stocked lard, it’s my favorite kind of weather for baking, and today I will examine Nana’s recipes.” Well as you know that didn’t happen. I took the box down,…
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Continue reading →: Cloudy With a Chance of TreasureMy grandmother died three years ago this past summer. There are days where it feels like it happened just yesterday, and today is one of those days. It’s cloudy and cool with a breeze, and it’s exactly the kind of day we would go out to the Peninsula to search…
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Welcome to my chaotic, nostalgic, cozy corner of the interwebs dedicated to the recipes I have rattling around in my brain and squirreled away on scraps of paper around the house.
Cooking While Caffeinated 