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St. Patrick’s Day Food: Irish Soda Bread and Shamrock Pretzels

March 9, 2011 | 18 Comments
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We continue our St. Patrick’s Week today with some traditional Irish Soda Bread and kid-friendly Shamrock Pretzels. Yesterday I shared some recipes for Appetizers and Main Dishes. Do you cook a St. Patrick’s Day Dinner? These Shamrock Pretzels are easy and fun to make, starting with dough in the bread machine makes them even easier. [...]

Homemade for the Holidays: Cranberry Bread

December 7, 2010 | 17 Comments
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Welcome to another great day of Homemade for the Holidays! Yesterday, I shared Homemade Peanut Butter Cups, an easy but impressive gift. This Cranberry Bread recipe comes from my Grandmother. Unfortunately I don’t remember her baking it, although I do remember my Mom baking it for Thanksgiving and Christmas every year. Giving a gift from [...]

Banana Bread

April 27, 2010 | 9 Comments
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Banana Bread is a favorite at our house. Lately I’ve had to hide a few bananas just to be able to bake the Banana Bread. Seems like the boys go in spurts, first I have tons of leftovers bananas, then they are eating them up like crazy. It’s funny how things in life usually come [...]

Irish Soda Bread

March 10, 2010 | 16 Comments
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Baking special treats and making Holidays fun, has always been important to me. Irish Soda Bread is a traditional bread served on St. Patrick’s Day. Wondering why they call it Soda Bread, I used my handy Swagbucks toolbar, and searched around, this is what I found from the Society of Preservation of Soda Bread (yep, it really does exist ) “Just like the bagpipes [...]

Christmas Cookies~Jam Cake~Day 9

December 9, 2009 | 4 Comments
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Today I’m sharing my Mother-In-Law’s recipe for Jam Cake.  She made this treat for Christmas for many years, in fact, the recipe I have says that she received the recipe in 1957. Last weekend, after my husband received a call from his brother, I realized just how important traditions and baking go together. You see, [...]

Farmhouse Biscuits from Susan Branch

December 2, 2009 | 8 Comments
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Susan Branch is my all time favorite author. Whether she is sharing a great recipe or a cute craft, her whimsical style is such a pleasure to read. I have several of her books and I especially enjoy pouring over the Christmas books that I have, this time of year. Back in October (I think [...]

Holiday Food Fest ~ Banana Bread

November 18, 2009 | 16 Comments
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Welcome to our third week of the  Holiday Food Fest! If you missed the last two weeks, I shared my Pumpkin Mousse Pie and Veggie Twist. Today, we are sharing Gifts of Good Taste over at Cents to Get Debt Free. Do you bake or make your own gifts for the Holidays? Since I bake every week, and often share with [...]