Classic carrot bars that get their supremely smooth texture from an unexpected ingredient: baby food! Working on this blog and writing a cookbook about cherished family recipes passed down through the generations, I have come across many cake recipes with “interesting” ingredients: Tomato soup in a spice cake, mayonnaise in a chocolate cake, pudding mix for a coffee cake. Maybe it was because certain ingredients like eggs or milk were…
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Continue ReadingAll the flavors of a BLT in a dip! Even though I don’t grow tomatoes (or anything for that matter), I am always excited for this time of year to see all the amazing ways people make use of their bounty of homegrown produce or…
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Continue ReadingSnickers Salad, served as a dessert or a side, features chopped Granny Smith apples and little bites of Snickers bars that are mixed together with cream cheese and Cool Whip. Snickers Salad?! Yes, you read that right. It’s another dessert-like salad that frequently pops up…
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Continue ReadingA vintage coffee cake, Sour Cream Somersault Cake starts with a yellow cake mix and a package of instant vanilla pudding and includes sour cream (thus, the name!) and then layers in a mixture of cinnamon-sugar and nuts that creates swirls of sweetness throughout the…
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Continue ReadingA one-dish version of a Reuben sandwich, Reuben Casserole includes layers of corned beef, saurkraut, Swiss cheese, Thousand Island dressing and rye bread. St. Patrick’s Day has a special place in my heart! While I appreciate any excuse to throw back a pint and eat…
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Continue ReadingIt just takes four ingredients and two mintues for pure dip perfection. Sue’s Dip is creamy, it’s cheesy and it has a slight kick from the picante—making it the perfect texture and flavor combination to coat your tortilla chips or other preferred dip-dunking vessel. When…