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Stollen Bread, a German Christmas Tradition

  Each Christmas I make Stollen Bread.  It’s a traditional German Christmas treat.  My grandmother taught me to make stollen when I was in college but it took me several years to master it.  Since we just make it once a year I couldn’t use my normal practice makes perfect cooking strategy.  I was beyond…

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MMMonday | Coconut Icebox Pie

Back before there were Refrigerators there was the Icebox. My grandmother told me about the Icebox they had when she was growing up.  It was a wooden cabinet that sat in the kitchen.  There was a funnel in the floor of the house under the ice compartment where the water would drip so it run…

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Crack on a Plate | Robinwood Photography Cookbook Project

Crack on a Plate.  It’s really crack.  I mean you will be addicted.  You won’t be able to stop. Then you will have a tummy ache. Please be warned that this dessert is addicting.  It will make you sick because you will eat too much.  You have been warned.  I accept no responsiblity for your…

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MMMonday-Apple Salad

Sundays out at Robinwood were magical.  We would play all day long, running through the woods, shooting our BB guns and riding on the tractor.  Around two o’clock my grandmother would stand on the deck and call us all in for Sunday Supper.  The bar was transformed into a buffet of steaming bowls of delicious…

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MMMonday | Ice Cream Sundaes

When I was in the second grade my mother got a job at Baskin Robins Ice Cream.  She got a scoop of ice cream for free each day.  She’d save up all her scoops and bring home all 31 flavors at the end of the month.  We ate a lot of ice cream during the…

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MMMonday Old Fashioned Caramel Cake

I am a blog-a-holic.  I easily have 40 blogs that I follow in my Google Reader.  I ran across this recipe about 3 weeks ago and I knew I HAD to make this cake.  How can you go wrong with tons of sugar, butter and sour cream!   This cake lived up to every yummy dream I…

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MMMonday-Cinnamon Pull Apart Loaves

I was a Home Economics Junkie.  I took Home Ec for 6 straight years.  I started as a 6th grader taking FA/PA (fine arts/practical arts) which was a survey of art, home ec and drama.  I then added regular Home Ec in 7th grade and Advance Home Ec in 8th grade.  In High School I…

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Almond Joy Cake-YUM!

Friday night we join some friends for dinner and a nice visit.  I took this cake for dessert.  My grandmother found the recipe in the Houston Chronicle on September 15, 2010.  She was kind enough to save it for me.  I do think she had other motives for cutting it out though.   I will have bake…

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You Capture-Fresh

I love the weekly You Capture assisgnment.  This week the theme is Fresh. The other night I made The Pioneer Woman’s Monkey Bread.  My fiance’ said that it smelled like love. I love the smells that come from the kitchen as I bake.   Nothing smells as good as fresh baked dessert!

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