Homemade Granola Bars Recipe #writes4food

Homemade granola bars.

To date, I’ve posted four recipes for homemade granola made with agave, oats and other natural ingredients. Maybe I have some kind of granola fetish, I don’t know. I love it with milk for breakfast, out …

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Raspberry-almond bars.

These homemade raspberry-almond bars were so good I had to hide one in order to take a photo for the blog. This dessert is how I like it: not too rich or sweet.

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Savory cookies.

I have a professional crush on Dorie Greenspan, I’ll admit it—and not because her hair is cuter and even shorter than mine. Her feature in the November issue of Food and Wine, The Cookie Canapé, is …

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A family of cooks.

I come from a long line of cooks. My paternal grandmother was a confident home cook known for pies and comfort food; my maternal grandmother still preserves summer produce and has taught me about canning, pie …

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Peanut butter and jam thumbprint cookies.

I volunteered to bring cookies—lots of them—to Grandma’s 90th birthday fête this weekend. I had in mind to bake old-fashioned kinds of cookies; nothing too swishy, but rather the types of cookies she might have made …

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Almond-butter cookies.

My love of peanut butter runs deep, twined in the double-helixes of my DNA. I know this because my beloved grandfather never turned down a handfulorthree of peanuts. Family lore has it that he favored peanut …

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