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Make Your Own Valentine’s Day Dessert!
For Valentine’s Day I wanted a simple dessert that you can make with ingredients you enjoy based upon a simple approach. Select a cake/brownie mix, fruit, topping, and decorative items. From the...
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Irish Potato Cake & Irish Sayings
If you are looking for a great cake for St Patrick’s Day then you will enjoy this Irish Potato Cake! It is easy to make and you can’t stop eating it! I have always loved Irish sayings and blessings...
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Irish Shamrock Chewy Cut-out Cookies
It is one week until St. Patrick’s Day! As I mentioned in a prior post, I love the wisdom and humor of the Irish. Although I have never been to Ireland, I love the picture books and travel programs...
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30-Minute or Less Pistachio Pudding Pie
This is a wonderful light and creamy dessert just in time for St. Patrick’s Day! I have changed it slightly from the traditional recipes to reduce both the time to make and some of the calories. It is...
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Chocolate Mint St Patty’s Day Cookies
Around St. Patrick’s Day we always hear about wearing of the green! Well here is a cookie that is wearing a bit of the green. Bite into this great cookie for a surprise burst of mint. Of course this...
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Irish Tea Scones and my favorite Irish author Maeve Binchy
One of my favorite fiction authors is Maeve Binchy. One can get lost in her books as the characters become friends and you become invested in their lives. Her stories are centered in Ireland with...
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Blueberry Antioxidant Protein Smoothie and our Wegmans Eat Well Live Well...
At work we are starting Wegmans Eat Well Live Well Challenge. The program is designed to get you moving and improve the amount of vegetables & fruits you eat every day. At work we formed teams...
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Chicken Quesadilla Spicy and Hot
Thursday is a nondescript day – it is not mid week and it is not Friday! What can I say about Thursday? I am looking for a quick “go to” meal. When I first started this blog, I posted a recipe for...
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Chicken Chili With Crunchy Tortilla Chips
I must admit this Chicken Chili rivals my Turkey Chili and has become my favorite! We tend to make our chili thick, therefore; if you prefer a more broth-based chili just add more chicken stock. This...
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Roasted Red Pepper Hummus
I am going through Hummus at an alarming rate as part of my Wegmans Eat Well Live Well Challenge. Hummus is made from chic peas so it counts as a vegetable. The first week has ended and the challenge...
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Mom’s Orange and Pineapple Cake
I finally started to read Maeve Binchy’s last book “A Week in Winter”. As I mentioned in my Irish Scone posting it is difficult to start reading her last book. It has been sitting on my reading table...
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Matcha Green Tea Ice Cream
I first had green tea ice cream at a Thai restaurant – it quickly became one of my favorite ice creams! There are a lot of different versions to make green tea ice cream. If you want a really quick...
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Tropical Getaway Cake & Into Darkness 3D for the second time!
Of course I had to go back to the theatre to see Star Trek Into Darkness 3D for a second time since there is always so much to take in that you need to watch it multiple times. And of course we...
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Strawberry Shortcake with Bourbon Whipped Cream
I hope everyone is having a wonderful week! We are still having odd weather where it is nice one day and the next it drops 20 degrees. Plus a lot of rain with flood warnings. Luckily last Sunday we...
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Strawberry Shortcake with Bourbon Strawberry Sauce
After making the Slow-Cooked Bourbon Chicken, I had bourbon left over and wanted to make a few other recipes. We love strawberry shortcake so I decided to try a couple of different recipes! Previously...
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Can you say Heavenly? Strawberry Shortcake with Whipped Chocolate Topping
I thought my other Strawberry Shortcakes were delicious – until I had this one! I could have just eaten the whipped chocolate topping and skipped the shortcake! This is a fabulous topping over...
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Strawberry Shortcake with Vanilla Orange Syrup
I hope everyone is having a nice week! The weather here is getting nicer providing some nice opportunities to get outside for walks and outings. It seems that summers are so much shorter than winter...
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Pomegranate Martini & Niagara on the Lake and Their Beautiful Gardens Part 2
Today I am sharing more pictures I took of the beautiful gardens from Niagara on the Lake and a recipe for the first martini I made for our Friday night cocktail. (Do not forget to view part 1 of the...
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Pomegranate Sparkling Martini & Niagara on the Lake and Their Beautiful...
I really enjoyed my first Pomegranate Martini but this one is excellent as it is lighter with eliminating the vodka and adding sparkling lemon water, which definitely will cut some of the sweetness....
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Lychee Berry Martini and Various Pictures from Niagara-on-the-Lake
I always enjoyed Lychee tea – so I figured I would like a Lychee Martini! And I was not disappointed. Lychee is an Asian fruit that has a “delicate, whitish pulp” with a floral smell and a fragrant,...
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