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Upside Down Pear Crunch Coffee Cake for #TwelveLoaves
So if this is a bread group, what the heck am I doing posting a coffee cake? Well…I might sorta be the kind that likes to push the envelope anyhow…but if Joy of Baking considers coffee cake to be a...
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Gingerbread Kahlua Date Nut Bread with White Chocolate for #TwelveLoaves
I’ve got the holiday spirit…or spirits if you will! It’s time for the monthly #TwelveLoaves challenge and it should come as no surprise that I lobbied for BOOZE in BREAD! Not that I knead (some bread...
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Whole Wheat & Honey English Muffin Bread with Cranberry Apple Butter
This month’s #Baketogether challenge with Abby Dodge seemed easy enough but it’s the holiday season and nothing is easy during the holidays is it? So many obligations it can feel like anything but...
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Eggnog and Bourbon Bread Loaf – A True Gift from the Heart
My birthday was last Monday and this post was supposed to simply be about the bread my daughter made for me as a gift for that day. But life changes in an instant and I would be remiss if there was no...
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Pecan Sticky Buns with Orange and Bourbon Glaze
This is a special post and it’s been a long time coming. It all started this past summer when I got a tweet from Sommer who tweets as @GagneFoods letting me know she was in Denver sampling some of...
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Omelets with Goat Cheese and Raspberries
Over the last couple of years I’ve kept my holiday preparations much easier. I’ve decided that being a slave to the kitchen does not equate to a day off for the cook so I like to make dishes that are...
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Best of ‘Not Forgotten Favorites’ for 2012
I’ve done it before and it’s sort of standard fare to see a lot of food bloggers ‘Best of the Year’ lists to wrap-up the year. I did one last year. That list started with the first cocktail that I...
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The Best Blueberry Coffee Cake has Crown Royal Maple Finished Whiskey
I love this blueberry coffee cake. The cake is light and delicious, it’s filled with double the berries of most and the crumb topping is the perfect blend of a sweet and spicy crunch. The original...
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Cream Cheese Stuffed French Toast with Pomegranate & How to Clean a Pomegranate
Although I would be hard pressed to claim that I love this time of year for a long list of reasons, two things help make it a time I look forward to. Is is snow and skiing? Nope. Neither is it a sport...
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Le Peep’s Gooey Buns
I don’t eat out often; it’s just not my thing, much preferring to throw something simple together at home than pick up food to go. But moving changes EVERYTHING and I simply can not impress upon you...
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Blueberry Lemon Scones and a Colorado Gift Box Giveaway
If you don’t know already then let me tell you how much I love Colorado. Not from here originally, I grew up in a suburb of St. Louis. As a young married woman I moved with my husband to North...
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Apple and Cinnamon Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting and El Salvador Coffee...
These apple and cinnamon cupcakes with cream cheese frosting may seem more of a Fall dessert in the US but if weather plays a role in our food choices, when my daughter made these last weekend,...
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Citrus and Vanilla Bean Butter from the book ‘Flavored Butters’ by Lucy...
This was a tough assignment for sure; this reviewing of a book all about compound butters. First there was the huge effort of deciding sweet or savory…that was almost unfair so I decided to try both...
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Cherry Nut Loaf
Cherries. Fresh, ripe and wonderful cherries. Sweet, succulent and gorgeous cherries; a love so strong that years ago I gave into this being not just cherry season but embracing that my fingertips...
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Pumpkin Beer Bread with Pumpkin and Honey Butter for #FallFest
One of the first regional foods I made when I moved to Colorado over 25 years ago had nothing to do with chiles or fajitas; elk or antelope. Nope…it was for Coors Beer Bread. I had never seen nor...
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Boozy Snickerdoodle Cake with Apples
I’ve long loved Snickerdoodle cookies; sure I made them for my kids when they were young but they never had to pull my leg very hard; they were a family favorite we all enjoyed. Still, with the advent...
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Boozy Bread Pudding and a Pioneer Woman Cookbook Giveaway
OK, so maybe this is not really a cocktail for Friday Cocktails but the term boozy is not to be taken lightly. The contribution that bourbon makes to this dish is heady stuff and just a perfect...
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Maple, Bourbon and Balsamic Caramel Sauce
Caramel Sauce…love it or hate it? Truth is it wasn’t until the other night that I met someone who doesn’t care for it. I immediately put my hand to his forehead to see if he was feverish; that could...
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Maple Roasted Butternut Squash Risotto with Bacon and Brown Butter Sage Topping
I am a lover of all things maple. When others were enjoying their PB&J sandwiches as kids; mine were always PB&MS – Peanut Butter and Maple Syrup. Haven’t tried it? Go. Now! I STILL love it to...
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The Original German Pancake – This is no Dutch Baby!!
This post was originally published several years ago and I was inspired to bring it out of the archives for two reasons. I was reminded of my Grandparents home the other day when my friend Kristen at...
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