Peanut Butter Cups A few weeks ago, Husband and I went to Jackson Hole to fly fish The Snake River. On our last day, we stopped in town before our flight home. We treated ourselves to a scrumptious homemade peanut butter cup we bought at a tiny ice cream shop on the town square. Needless to say, I’ve had peanut…
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Spiced Cherry Compote
If summer has a flavor it’s cherry. I spend my fair share of time pitting cherries in the summer – an invitation to slow down. Spiced Cherry Compote may be one of my favorite experiments of the summer. A dollop of this compote on a generous serving of Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla ice cream gives new meaning to happiness with…
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Rustic Fruit Tart with Blueberries and Peaches
Husband has a charming habit of sending me links to recipes for inspiration. Generally these love notes coincide with longish plane rides and I pray have more to do with his longing for home than his boredom in the skies. I keep these recipes in a Husband Pleasing file in Evernote. If I was a really good wife, I would…
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Orange Sorbet
Knock. Knock. Who’s there? Orange. Orange who? Orange you glad we’re making sorbet? Orange Sorbet 1 orange, peeled and halved 1 tablespoon agave nectar 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 cups ice Place all ingredients in a VitaMix (or heavy duty blender) in order listed and blend for 30 – 40 seconds, until the consistency of a perfect sorbet. PRINT RECIPE…
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Vanilla Chia Pudding
Think she likes it? Littlest polished off the Vanilla Chia Pudding almost single handedly. Please forgive the manners. She doesn’t always eat this way. Sometimes she forgoes the spoon altogether. If your eyes glazed over the word chia in the recipe title, fix your gaze on these nutritional facts for the super seed. Ancient Mayan and Aztec cultures treasured…
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Nutter Butter Bars
I’m pretty sure this recipe came straight from Heaven. Heaven by way of The Amateur Gourmet’s community website which attributes the recipe to Susan Silberstein’s cookbook Hungry for Health. When I gave the Littles a taste of these delicious bars one of them exclaimed, “These are even better than Nutter Butter Bars!” After several test runs, I made only minor…
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