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Covering All the Bases

Covering All the Bases

I am covering all the bases on New Year’s Day today.  I have eaten Napa Cabbage Salad, Cabbage Rolls, Collard Greens, and Black Eyed Peas.  Four dishes to guarantee prosperity in the new year. At lunch I started with Napa Cabbage Salad. I’m thinking salad counts in this traditional cash-ensuring fare but  to be certain I made […]

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Banana Pudding and Ski Jumping

Banana Pudding and Ski Jumping

I just made some banana pudding. We were watching ski jumping. Those people are crazy.   Homemade Vanilla Pudding 2 cups whole milk 1/2 cup sugar 3 tablespoons cornstarch 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 tablespoon butter Heat the milk over medium heat until bubbles form around the edge.  Do not boil.  In […]

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Bacon Basket

Bacon Basket

I’ve shown bacon baskets on the blog before but can you ever really have enough bacon? Most people would say no. I like bacon although I am trying to eat less of it.  You certainly don’t find it on any 10 most healthful foods list.  But when you grow up eating bacon, or any food […]

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Graham Cracker Pie

Graham Cracker Pie

For me there is always one recipe in a book that sells that cookbook to me.  If I open the book and see a good one, then I will probably buy the book.  Basically I have a bunch of $10 and $20 dollar recipes because often I don’t make anything else out of the book. This recipe […]

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Pine Mountain and Practice Crackers

Pine Mountain and Practice Crackers

After lunch in Warm Springs we headed over to Pine Mountain.  It is the home of Callaway Gardens.  Usually we zoom into Pine Mountain to see the Fantasy in Lights show at Callaway Gardens and don’t stop at the stores along the way.  This time we did the opposite and shopped at the stores without […]

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Dearest Mel, Would You Care for Some Sugarized Popped Corn?

Dearest Mel, Would You Care for Some Sugarized Popped Corn?

We tend to run things in the ground around here. It’s all in fun, of course, but it happens frequently nonetheless.  Olivia and I have a running debate over the pronunciation of either and either.  Pronounced ee-ther or eye-ther.  I am in the ee-ther corner and she chooses the eye-ther corner.  We also have a […]

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Gingerbread

Gingerbread

I have a cookbook from my great grandmother and this is one of the recipes in it.  I started making it when Olivia was little and as it happened it was also featured in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution cooking section when she was a baby.  Since it’s Christmas I thought I’d share it with you. In […]

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Mini Cheesecakes

Mini Cheesecakes

This recipe comes from a fellow teacher at my school.  It was printed and placed in one of our paper organizers in the office.  I saw that recipe in there for months and kept wondering how it got there.  I snagged a copy and tried it and it has been a favorite ever since. I […]

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Chips and Dip

Chips and Dip

I unpacked my basket from the concert and was thrilled with my chips and dip platter. I had to make a dip tonight, of course. I wanted to give it a test run. Are you a dip person or a flavored chip person? I am definitely a dip person.  I think it goes back to […]

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Roasted Pecans

Roasted Pecans

An incredibly easy snack to make is salted, buttered, roasted pecans.  My friend Joanna makes these each year and my mom has been known to crank out a few herself.  I ran across this recipe tonight and thought I’d give it a try. On our way to Florida we stop in Vienna, GA at the […]

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