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Classic Napoleon: Easy Entertaining
Classic Napoleon I’ve packed our freezer full with boxes of Pepperidge Farm® Puff Pastry sheets, because I’m going to make a LOT of Classic Napoleon this holiday season. No self-respecting Armenian...
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DIY Faux Fireplace – No Power Tools Needed!
Our 1925 home must’ve looked really different when it was first built or so I imagine. Thinking about what the rooms looked like back then made me wish there were more fireplaces around. That’s when...
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Grape Lemonade made with Welch’s 100% Grape Juice
Old Timey Goodness Like most kids, Daisy’s takes juice over water ever chance she gets. We usually water it down and try to moderate her intake, but it’s often a challenge. Lately, she’s has been...
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Cream-filled Puff Pastry Carrots
The Royal Party Technically Spring isn’t here yet, but the fragrance from blossoms already perfumes the evening air. Daisy’s birthday is coming up and I am putting together everything for a small, but...
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Persian Rose Milk Pudding: Iranian Food Writers on Norouz, the Persian New Year!
Persians are romantics. Even the most ordinary expression of gratitude in exchange for a glass of water is presented as “Merci, aziz-eh dehl am,” meaning “Thank you, dearest of my heart.” While this...
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One-Pot Rustic Beef Stew
The Simple Life The older I get, the more I am convinced the secret to happiness is in the countryside. The simple life. That’s how I’ve been cooking and baking lately, only a few steps using...
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My Favorite Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
A Touch of Whimsy You know those fuzzy little chicks with orange plastic feet? I just love them. They always remind me of a scene in the children’s book Coco Counts where “…. 5 chicks are hungry and 6...
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Mom’s Apple Cake
This Calls for Cake My little brother (friend at the office) had been off-site for months and we were all excited he was returning to our little village of cubicles. The occasion called for cake. (Of...
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Cute Halloween Party Ideas
Let’s Party! I love this time of year when the leaves turn golden and a chill sweeps through the air, but mostly because it’s the season we celebrate childhood, starting with Halloween. My parents...
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Indian Pudding
This is quite possibly my favorite time of year. Autumn paints the world in bright, warm colors and announces the coming of the holidays. I owe you an apology, because, I was so busy stuffing my face,...
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Lasagna with Parmesan Cream Sauce
Reviving Old Traditions Sundays are for relaxing with the family. I’m always looking for something cozy and comforting to put onto the table and Lasagna with Parmesan Cream Sauce always fits the bill....
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Burnt Cheesecake
The Impatient Cook New York is one of my favorite places (my fav uncle lives there), but I never understood how people enjoy its namesake cheesecake plain – no cherries, berries, chocolate sauce. That...
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Butterscotch Pudding
Years ago, my sister took Mom to the posh kitchen and bath shop. Later that night, I got a phone call, expecting to hear about all the fancy sinks, faucets, cabinets, but, instead, all I heard about...
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Cowboy Skillet & What You Need to Know About Cast Iron
Somewhere deep in the crevices of my mind lives a farm girl with messy hair, muddy overalls and well-worn leather boots. Maybe that’s why tater tots hold a dear place in my heart. No one can resist a...
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Rose Milk Tea and Homemade Rose Petal Syrup
Spendy Little Habits One morning, on my way to work, I coasted past a boba place and, as evil little thoughts of stopping in flooded my brain, I made a deal with myself: If there was a parking spot...
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Churro Waffles
Souvenirs Who says you can’t have sweets for breakfast? Most breakfast food qualifies as dessert, anyway, plus you have all day to work it off. And, now that everyone’s throwing all kinds of stuff into...
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Far Breton: French Pudding with Rum-Soaked Plums
The first time I heard of Far Breton was on Anthony Bourdain’s visit to Brittany years and years ago. He was invited to someone’s house for a cozy home-cooked meal the only part of which I distinctly...
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Aquarium Cookies
Having children means you’re going to “need” pets, oh, all sorts of feathered, scaled, furry, slimy organisms. Young ones will say anything to get you to agree, promise to feed them, entertain them,...
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Slice & Bake Penguin Cookies
The holidays are here and every morning, I just want to wake Daisy up so we can run to the kitchen and bake all day in our PJ’s! First up are the whimsical Slice & Bake Penguin Cookies which,...
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Parisian Hot Chocolate Recipe: Chocolat Chaud
It’s still winter for a few more days. So snuggle down under the blankets, read bedtime stories and wrap your hands around a warm mug of Parisian hot chocolate. If it’s neither windy or chilly, I...
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