This apricot-cherry slab pie is perfect to take on a picnic, because you can eat it with your hands if you like.
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Classic Shortbread Cookies
If Autumn is a man, then Winter is a woman. Especially when the first snow dusts the ground giving her an elegant mink coat,sparkling in the late afternoon, crystal earrings hanging from her evergreen lobes.
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English Christmas Trifle
I have warm memories of Christmases spent in England. We’d drive up from London for a few days to my friend’s family home in North Yorkshire. The dining room in the “house” was large enough to hold one long table which sat
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Poire Belle Hélène {Poached Pears w/ Chocolate}
Poire Belle Helene is a simple, yet decadent dessert that will make you feel as though you’re eating in a Parisian cafe.
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Apple Walnut Bread
This Apple Walnut Bread is a simple, not too sweet, dessert or snack, perfect with a dab of Maple Butter! Is it me, or does it seem like “pumpkin spice season” is getting earlier and earlier? Back in “the day”, anything pumpkin usually started appearing in magazines in the October issue, but these days it seems…
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Peppermint Bark Cups
Like me, you’ve probably gotten that glossy catalog of beautiful, but over-priced kitchen goods in the mail too. I love skimming through it, and writing an imaginary list of things I don’t really need, but would be so fun to have. Around the holidays, this same company pushes their “famous” peppermint bark.
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