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Perfect Muffins

Recently I found a jewel of a recipe tucked in my mother’s old wooden recipe box. I “borrowed” the whole box a few years back. The recipe was cut from a magazine and glued to a note card. On the recipe was a sticky note from my mom saying, “I used to make these …click to continue Perfect Muffins

Spinach and Artichoke Pasta Bake

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This is an easy weeknight meal. Stand back and don’t faint when I say this: “Both of my children, one of whom still doesn’t eat anything that touches anything else, loved this.”

I made pasta because, 1) I needed something sort of easy, yet homemade. That’s always a good goal, right? And, 2) my …click to continue Spinach and Artichoke Pasta Bake

Whipping Cream Cake

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“Plain Cake” seems to be a very uninspired title for something as wonderful as this. But, a cake that you eat happily unadorned is rare. This cake, with perhaps the lightest sprinkling of confectioners’ sugar is a simple joy. I suppose this is technically a member of the pound cake family. The original recipe …click to continue Whipping Cream Cake

Oatmeal Pecan Coconut Maple Cookies

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I know that is a rather cumbersome title for a humble cookie, but this is a special cookie and each of those components is important.

I wouldn’t ask you to make a cookie unless I were serious about it. Cookies are personal. I really get irritated with marginal cookies, because, frankly, at 40 when …click to continue Oatmeal Pecan Coconut Maple Cookies

Baked Chicken Spaghetti Recipe

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I laugh at the roses in the photo behind this plate of spaghetti. Pitts has this saying about putting a pig in a dress. After all, this is just chicken spaghetti. But baked Chicken Spaghetti gets a complete pass in my book. To me, with a salad and some crusty bread, Chicken Spaghetti is …click to continue Baked Chicken Spaghetti Recipe