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.

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Lighter classic cheesecake.

Recently, my editor for the fitness and weight-loss website SparkPeople.com challenged me with a rather difficult assignment: Develop a feature story about sensible alternatives for desserts and sweet snacks. Now, this particular subject was hard to write …

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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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spring penne pasta with asparagus and mushrooms | writes4food.com

Penne with asparagus and mushrooms.

Here in Southwest Ohio, asparagus season is in full swing, about 3 weeks early by my estimation. And I’m planning to eat it weekly until either a) I’m sick of it, or b) it’s gone. Early …

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