This dessert makes an incredible summer favorite topped with ice cream or a comfort warm winter treat. The peaches have a perfect balance of ginger and almond, topped backed with with a cinnamon sugar topping . You don’t have to wait for peach season for this southern specialty. Print Cinnamon Crusted Peach Wraps Author: Vickie
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Peanut Buter Cookie Cups or Peanut Butter Cup Cookies. Either way they are the EZ and the SHIZ. You need: miniature peanut butter cups, break and bake cookies, cooking spray, mini-cupcake pan and I use the silicone mini-cupcake molds. Pre-heat oven to 350F Unwrap PB cups and place in freezer (yes freezer) until ready to put
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  This is an good Old Fashion Lemon Meringue Pie that is easy and it has such a great balance of tart and sweet that it will be hard to stop eating. WARNING: Do not eat alone. Have someone near by to stop you after one piece. Print Old Fashion Lemon Meringue Pie Author: Vickie @
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  I love pumpkin pie.  I would never eat someone’s homemade pumpkin pie because Mrs. Smith’s Custard Pumpkin pie was my absolute favorite. It was sad to me that a frozen store bought pie tasted much better, yet the calories (GUILT with every bite). Then in a Cooking Light issues I read how I could
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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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