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Top 10 recipes: year 1.

Homemade chocolate pudding. Perfect roasted potatoes. The best granola. Orange chocolate-chip muffins. Here’s my list of Top 10 Recipes from the past year. Continue reading

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The best blue cheese dressing. Promise.

You can’t beat the classic “wedge” salad, and here’s the perfect blue-cheese dressing to top it. Continue reading

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Better than store-bought: Homemade strawberry jam.

Hard to admit, but I’ve never before made strawberry jam that I’ve processed in jars. As a kid, I’d go strawberry-picking with the family and we’d make freezer jam (super easy!). But I haven’t done the cooked-and-jarred stuff. Until now. … Continue reading

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Better than store-bought: Best homemade granola.

Well, at least I think it’s the best granola recipe. For proof, there’s the fact that I. Can’t. Stop. Eating. It. In a bowl with milk for breakfast, by the handful as a snack—I’m rather stuck on this stuff. I’ve … Continue reading

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Essential garden tool: the planting stick.

As an eager gardener who’s always learning what works and what doesn’t, I’m excited when I discover what works. And this works: a planting stick. Of all the tools in my garden bench and in the garage, a few are … Continue reading

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Summer corn and tomato pie.

There are two food-related (obsessed?) blogs that I wish I wrote: 100cookbooks.com and smittenkitchen.com. Neither fails me whenever I bookmark a recipe. So when I spotted this recipe for Tomato and Corn Pie on smittenkitchen.com earlier this week, I made … Continue reading

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