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Apple-Blue Cheese Sa...

Apple - Blue Cheese Salad w/Toasted Pecans This is simply a great tasting salad that is good in both the summer and winter. I had a bought a big tub of blue cheese at Costco for another recipe and came up with this combination. The salad dressing really adds to the flavor of the salad...

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August 19th, 2010
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Lemon Surprise...

Lemon Surprise A few weeks ago my husband and I hosted a small group fellowship service in our home and I like to serve some snacks or dessert afterward in order to create time for more informal sharing with each other. I decided to fix something sweet and something savory. This lemon...

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June 30th, 2010
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Blueberry Streusel C...

Blueberry Streusel Coffeecake A week ago I volunteered to make some coffeecakes for a meeting we were having at church on Saturday morning. Just about everyone likes blueberries so I thought I’d try one using frozen blueberries. They worked just fine but be sure they are thawed...

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January 30th, 2010
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Green Olive Cheese B...

Green Olive Cheese Ball My son-in-law loves chopped green olives mixed with cream cheese and then spread on crackers. His grandmother used to make that when he was little so I think it conjures up many good memories for him. He wanted me to make Rotel dip for our tailgating venture...

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December 16th, 2009
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Pecan Cookie Bars...

Pecan Cookie Bars Ready to Eat . . . YUM! Ya gotta love cookie bars! They are so quick to make because you bake them all at once in one pan and then cut them into the size cookies you want and DONE! These bars taste a lot like pecan pie but without so much goo. They are crispy on...

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December 3rd, 2009
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Sweet N' Spicy ...

Sweet N' Spicy Sweet Potato Casserole We celebrated an early Thanksgiving with my husband’s side of the family. We also got to tailgate together at the Ohio State-Iowa football game! We divided food prep for our Thanksgiving among all of us and I was assigned my banana bread...

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November 19th, 2009
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Roasted Spicy Maple ...

Ready to eat! My husband was given this recipe by a woman who owned a walnut farm when he was in California on business. I made these for a party we went to to watch the Ohio State-USC football game. Go Bucks! They have a sweet, savory, spicy flavor that is wonderful! I’ve made...

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September 12th, 2009
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Double Chocolate Zuc...

Double Chocolate Zucchini Cake with Pecans Yum! Zucchini is in abundance!!! An anonymous co-worker is so desperate to get rid of some of hers that she left a bag of it in the faculty lounge along with a photocopied sheet of recipes! I fell for it and helped myself to some zucchini...

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August 24th, 2009
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