Remember these cookies? At the time, I was thinking of all sorts of variations besides lime and cocoa nibs. It took me a few months, but I finally got around to trying a couple of different combinations.
The first combination I tried was chocolate with coconut. I made the basic cookie dough recipe, but left out [...]

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Here’s the story of the dessert that almost wasn’t . . .
Once upon a time, I offered to provide dinner (with dessert, of course) to Bryan’s niece who just had a baby. Along with a huge pan of lasagna, I planned on wowing her with Finamore’s Chocolate Whipped Cream [...]

I haven’t been doing much baking lately because it has been too hot. But we’ve cooled down over the last couple of days, and I started feeling the baking itch. During my internet surfing, I came across this recipe from the Food and Wine Magazine website. It looked pretty easy and I had all the [...]

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Who would have thought that a marinade that contains a lot of beer might make the meat taste like beer? Duh! Apparently not me. Neither Bryan nor I like the taste of beer, so after a few bites of this steak, we politely pushed it aside and concentrated on [...]

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I couldn’t admit that I had gotten smacked down by some shrimp and bacon, so I was determined to give this recipe another go, with a few modifications.
This time around, I used jumbo shrimp so it was easier to wrap the bacon around and secure everything together. I also [...]

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So far, this is my favorite recipe from Tasty. It was quick and delicious and takes advantage of all the wonderful summer produce that’s available.
You start out by cutting the kernels off of three ears of corn and sauteing them in some butter. Once the corn is cooked, you [...]

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Why make English muffins? Well, why not? I had the ingredients (flour, yeast, salt and water) and instead of heating up the house with the oven, these little babies get cooked on a cast-iron griddle on the stovetop.
The simple dough is mixed up and left to rest overnight in [...]

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This is a simple side dish, albeit one that takes four hours of simmering on the stovetop. The beans (I used great northern beans) are cooked until tender with an onion, a couple of whole cloves, a couple of carrots, a stalk of celery, some rosemary and a bay [...]

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Pork tenderloin is so easy to cook, but it can end up bland and boring, so I’m always looking for ways to spice it up. In this recipe, Finamore has you spread a mixture of Dijon mustard and herbs over a tenderloin before rolling the meat in bread crumbs. [...]

For more than eight months, this recipe has been sitting in my “to try” pile. But instead of making it during the dark, cold days of winter when we craved comfort food, I had to wait until the hottest week of summer, in a house with no air conditioning. There’s something wrong with me, I [...]