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Cakes

One Bowl Vanilla Cake

…You can leave it as a one-layer cake and add 1 teaspoon of ground vanilla bean powder to the dry ingredients or you can double the dry ingredients and substitute…

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Culinary

Cuban Chicken With Sofrito

…chop ingredients into sizes that are small enough to fit into a food processor or blender. Place the chopped ingredients into a food processor or blender. Blend together all ingredients

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Afternoon Tea on Onomea Bay

ingredients, I also add 1 shredded apple and 1/2 cup yogurt). 3 teaspoon vanilla (Hawaii Vanilla is a good choice!) 1 cup chopped nuts Ingredients Mix dry ingredients set aside….

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Brunch

Roasted Mushroom Salad

…maitake contained cancer-preventing ingredients, but it appears that even domestic mushrooms are powerful healers. Combined with other healthy ingredients and a bit of vanilla, this is a Power combination that…

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Brunch

Lemon Trifle with Berries

…to save time.  Sprinkle the berries onto the lemon curd and then add a layer of lightly sweetened whipped cream. Repeat the layers until you have used up the ingredients,…

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Culinary

Easy Pie Hacks for Great Results

…in the sky.” Pie Hacks Quality ingredients are key for the best baked goods. Use unsalted butter, fresh flour, and good filling ingredients. Canned pie fillings are processed and often…

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Culinary

Caprese Salad

…Simple and delicious. That said I’ve had some pretty mediocre Caprese salads with less-than-ripe tomatoes and rubbery, flavorless mozzarella! How about you? It’s all about the right ingredients. For starters,…

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Culinary

15-Minute Pasta Dinner

…solutions for all kinds of daily culinary dilemmas and her 15 minute pasta solution is brilliant. Made with ingredients you are likely to have around (though I doubt everyone has heavy…

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The Magic of Chocolate

…of the other ingredients found in chocolate may work together to create the cravings many of us have for chocolate.  “Finding these active substances, combined with the known pleasurable effects…

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Appetizers

Toasted Pecan Everything Sauce

…the ingredients in the fridge and pantry and it comes together quickly, so what’s not to like about it, as even the most stubborn anti-broccoli eaters will chow down if you…

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Healthy Cooking

Asparagus and Sugar Snap Pea Salad

…one vegetable. I ended up with three ingredients: the peas, thin asparagus and shallots. If you disagree, then choose the sugar snaps, the younger the better.  I liked the salad…

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Pies & Tarts

Peach and Nectarine Pie

…tough. A couple of comments about ingredients. I’ve cut the sugar in the pie by about a 1/4 cup and it was perfectly sweet by my standards. If your fruit…

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Entrees

Chicken Salad Stuffed Artichokes

…Using a medium mixing bowl, assemble the ingredients for the salad and mix. Using a small bowl, blend mayonnaise, yogurt and other ingredients and mix well. Add to the chicken,…

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Brunch

Rock Star Maple-Vanilla Granola

…isn’t the same granola we enjoy today. It was homemade and nutritious but, we couldn’t find many of the unique ingredients that we have now. Think coconut oil, cocoa nibs…

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Culinary

Stylish, Delicious Winter Salads

…a cold, wet or snowy day! So, what’s the alternative? When you add hot, warm or even room temperature ingredients to greens, it completely changes the equation. So, here are…

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