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Beringer Great Steak Challenge Giveaway (Recipe: Strawberry Mint Gelato)

June 22, 2010

Every summer, I say I’m going to throw a Summer Solstice party, and every summer Summer Solstice sneaks up on me and I totally miss it. Summer flies faster than any other season of the year. Winter tends to crawl along, Spring flows along at a normal pace, Fall kicks in and always seems to [...]

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Fun at the Drive-In (Recipe: Homemade Kettle Corn)

June 19, 2010

Ahhhh Drive-In’s… what says summer better than a night out, under the stars, watching a movie on the big screen? Really? Not much else does. I don’t know why drive-ins are a dying breed because I can’t think of a much better way to watch a movie in the summertime! I remember my first drive-in [...]

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Summertime Memories (Recipe: Cherry Chocolate Float)

June 17, 2010

Summertime… when the living is easy. Or at least it was when I was a kid. I have fond memories of playing Red Rover, having dance contests to politically incorrect songs, working lemonade and brownie stands on 30th Drive, playing Wonder Woman in my underoos. Life was easy and carefree. As I got older, playing [...]

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For the Love of Bars (Recipe: Sugar Cookie Bars)

June 15, 2010

I married into a family of bar lovers. No – not the “let’s go out to the bar” lovers (although there are a few of those)… the other kind. The kind that you bake and eat. For every occasion or non-occasion when we are all together, you can bet that there are at least a [...]

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War of Weight Loss (Recipe: Vidalia Onion Bake)

June 13, 2010

Leah is now a year, and I haven’t even come close to losing the weight I gained when I was pregnant with her. I’ve never been one of those lucky women who get to watch the pounds just melt away simply because they are breastfeeding. If I want to lose the baby weight, I really [...]

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Dancing Queen Gone Unseen (Recipe: Rosemary Bread)

June 6, 2010

The evening really did start off nicely. The girls and I were be-bopping around in my bathroom to some of our favorite tunes. I was on hair, makeup and costume duty getting my daughters all ready for their dance recital performance that they had been working on all year long. The excitement was overwhelming… neither [...]

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Mastering the Grill (Recipe: Lime Grilled Shrimp)

June 3, 2010

Don’t miss your chance to win an apron from The Hip Hostess! Check out the giveaway on my Peanut Butter Pancake post! Show me a kitchen, and I’m right at home. Take me out to the grill and I freeze up without a clue as to what to do with the thing. My husband is [...]

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The Hip Hostess Apron Giveaway (Recipe: Peanut Butter Pancakes)

May 31, 2010

Post Update – The Random Number Generator winner of The Hip Hostess Apron giveaway is…. Melissa from Baking for the Boys. Congrats, Melissa! I hope you love your apron as much as I love mine! When I was little, my parents called my Grubby Gert. I came by that nickname quite honestly, from what I’ve [...]

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The Dark Side of Angel Food Cake (Recipe: Chocolate Angel Food Cake)

May 29, 2010

I’m sure that I am breaking all the blogging rules by posting this on the weekend… and a holiday weekend at that, but I can’t wait a second longer to share these recipes with you. If you have a Memorial Day party to go to this weekend and you are looking for the simplest of [...]

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Ode to the Cherry Pitter

May 28, 2010

I made a purchase last night that will forever change my life and pretty much take any semblance of fun out of the lives of my kids. I’m a little thrilled by the prospect. Let me start at the beginning. My kids love cherries. Every summer, we buy cherries by the boat load and every [...]

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