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Buttermilk Ranch Dressing Mix

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You have to have a few tricks up your sleeve. You have to have some magic shortcuts in the pantry. Because you, one day, will come running around the dining room table in a mad search for someone’s swimming goggles and kick a chair with your pinkie toe and look down to find it …click to continue Buttermilk Ranch Dressing Mix

Curry Chickpeas & Polenta

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Curry is a mystery to me. It is not one of my native foods, so to speak. I don’t think I ordered a meal containing curry until I was in my 30′s, and I surely never cooked with it. It was simply not in my view. My mother-in-law used to mix bottled curry powder …click to continue Curry Chickpeas & Polenta

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

Coffee Extract

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I’m goofing off a bit here. Usually I try to make sure I know exactly how things work out before I go bellowing on about them. But 6 weeks is a long time to wait and I know that my plan is working so far, so why not share.

Here is how the story …click to continue Coffee Extract

Roasted Cranberry Sauce

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Ah, Thanksgiving. It is that time of year when I come face to face with the fact that I really don’t like cranberry sauce all that much. In fact, I think it is fair to say that I make cranberry sauce for others, meaning that I never spent much time really tasting it and …click to continue Roasted Cranberry Sauce