I used to equate healthy with taking lots of time and costing more. It still may not be as easy as just tearing something open but it can be pretty quick. This morning I made fruit and yogurt parfaits. They were YUM and filling. I simply started out thawing some frozen blueberries  I picked myself.
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I titled this first of several posts “hidden treasures” because they are every where, you just have to seek them out. I discovered this hidden treasure close to where I live. It is a “pick your own” blueberry farm. You may think that “pick your own” doesn’t sound like a treasure but I really enjoy
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If you are looking for a great chocolate sauce/glaze, then here is one that is awesome and easy.  This sauce is amazing over ice cream, glaze for brownies, over petifaroles, banana splits  or whatever your heart desires. I used mini semi-sweet chocolate chips for the chocolate for quick dissolving smooth chocolate  and kaluha to give
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I enjoy cooking healthy and light.  A favorite place for me to try recipes is Cooking Light. I even try to go lighter then their light. In this recipe I substituted most the sugar for Splenda Sugar Blend and used Land O Lakes Light Butter. I simply left out the almonds in the crust because of family
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I do some writing for a hyper local site in my community. One of the recent posts I wrote was about taking the opportunity to buy from local farmers and farmer markets.  This year I am fortunate enough to have a garden, but I can’t say many years has been that season in my life.
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Well we  planted our garden yesterday. That just gets me in the mood for some of my Homemade Salsa Recipe. Last year I found a good base recipe online and I have been tweaking it ever since. This brought me to the conclusion that  salsa is a recipe of ones individual taste. That means you
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Spring is here so break out the Peanut Butter Pie. What can be better than a cool piece of rich and yet delicately sweet peanut butter pie resting in a chocolate cookie crust. It is soothing on a warm spring day. It gets your taste buds going and yet satisfies them at the same time.
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It is a good habit to cook and experiment with fresh herbs. When I am trying a recipe and it calls for a fresh herb, I love having it within reach. I have come to find that I usually like recipes with many of the same fresh herbs so I like to have my own
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I love family traditions. That includes getting together for family meals and events like the one coming up this week, Easter. Probably like most families, we eat certain things for some family traditions. This Easter Meal we are Breaking Out of the Proverbial Egg and trying something different. We will still have ham and the fixings
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Meatloaf is usually just meatloaf. Most of the time I would always hear friends and family say their meatloaf was too tough, dry and chewy. My reply would always be, “You’re cooking it to long.”  I think common mistakes when it comes to meatloaf are cooking it to long, letting it dry out by not
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