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Clean Out Your Pantry Banana Bread

You might start to think that I love me some banana bread.  After all this is the second time I have posted a banana bread recipe.  The truth is that I love bananas and usually end up buying way too many of them so into the freezer they go.  More often than they turn into [...]

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Grilled Cream Cheese and Strawberry Soup

Robin and Danielle have challenged food bloggers to a Recipe Remix. They gave us a list of classic dishes and called upon us to choose one of them to remake. I decided to take on my favorite of the list: Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup. I decided to take it on a [...]

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Food That Makes You Happy: Quadruple Chocolate Cookies

I have been meaning to post recipes and my food pictures here for a long time now. If you visit my flickr page, you might have seen some food pictures appear from time to time. I have wanted to share the recipes with you, but have just let life get in the way. [...]

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Whole Wheat and Flaxseed Bread

Ingredients
1 1/3 cups water
2 tablespoons honey
3 tablespoons butter, softened
1 cup bread flour
2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1 1/2 tablespoons dry milk powder
3 tablespoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons active yeast
1/2 cup ground flaxseed
DIRECTIONS

In a food processor, add the flour, flaxseed, salt and yeast and process for about 5 seconds for it to mix.

While running, add [...]

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Chicken Soft Tacos

For dinner tonight, I already had the multi-grain Mission tortillas, pineapple-mango salsa and shredded Mexian blend cheese. I really like this combination, especially the pineapple-mango salsa. It combines the sweetness of the fruit with the salty of the cheese and chicken. Also, the multi-grain tortillas were a bit on the sweet side. All around a [...]

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Roasted Red Pepper, Garlic and Tomato Soup

I made this for dinner tonight because I am trying to clear out my cupboards of things that have remained there for the last 6 months! A lot of this stuff I really didn’t measure out, so the following are estimates
Ingredients

2 tsp olive oil
1 – 2 garlic cloves (depending on how garlicy you like [...]

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M&M Cookies

Ingredients

1 cup butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups plain M&Ms (or chocolate chips)

Directions

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in the vanilla and eggs one at a [...]

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Pineapple Coconut Cookies

This is my first attempt and making a cookie recipe! This tastes a little bit more like a cross between a cookie and a biscuit.
INGREDIENTS

1 cup butter
3/4 cup white sugar & 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs
1 cup crushed pineapple (drain out the juice)
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon [...]

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