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Salmon on Toast with Honey Tarragon Cream Sauce

Salmon on Toast

A few days ago, I needed to go to Rex’s Seafood to ask a few questions about their hot smoked salmon. I wondered how I could also turn a chunk of their delicious salmon into dinner. The short answer is, “Unwrap it and eat it, dummy.” It is that good. You don’t …click to continue Salmon on Toast with Honey Tarragon Cream Sauce

Mocha Chocolate Chip Cookies

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I made coffee extract with Dripping Springs vodka and Noble Coyote coffee beans, two Texas businesses that I admire. I’m always looking for fun ways to utilize fun local products in my baking. Several years ago I happened upon the notion of making my own vanilla extract, and now I use it all the …click to continue Mocha Chocolate Chip Cookies

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

Esquites

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I have been forbidden by my family to cook another dish involving limes for the foreseeable future, so enjoy this while you can. I’ve been going a bit overboard. I can admit that. But, before the ban, each and every member of my family expressed great love for this.

My trip …click to continue Esquites

Hooky Cookies: Blueberry Cream Cheese Cookies

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There was once a cookie shop in Wichita Falls called Grandma B’s. They served huge, hot, fresh cookies to the masses. I can’t even remember when that spot closed but I will always remember their cookies. I loved the chocolate chip. But the 2nd most talked about cookie that they made, at least amongst …click to continue Hooky Cookies: Blueberry Cream Cheese Cookies