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Recipe: Beef Peach Pie

The apart­ment com­plex Ariesna and I live in is located directly behind a gro­cery store. The store is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (except for a cou­ple of hol­i­days). Given it is only about a 5 minute walk to get inside the store; we tend to leave the deci­sion of what […]

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Fruit Trifle

Ingre­di­ents 1 Pound cake 3/4 c Straw­berry jam 1 cn Pit­ted apri­cots (1 lb,14 oz) — drained and pureed 11 oz Man­darin oranges — drained 1/2 c Marsala or cream sherry 2 c Vanilla cus­tard 1 c Heavy cream 1/4 c Superfine sugar Direc­tions Split cake into thin lay­ers, spread with jam and half the apri­cot puree, and […]

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Chocolate Butterscotch Scotcheroos

Choco­late But­ter­scotch Scotcheroos Ingre­di­ents: 1 cup corn syrup 1 cup peanut but­ter 1 pkg. choco­late chips 1 cup sugar 6 cups Rice Krispies 1 pkg. but­ter­scotch chips Direc­tions: In large saucepan, cook corn syrup and sugar over medium heat, stir­ring fre­quently, until mix­ture begins to boil. Remove from heat. Stir in peanut but­ter. Mix in cereal. Press in but­tered 9x13 pan. […]

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Spinach and Egg Pancakes

This is a favorite of Manzabar’s and mine. It is a recipe that goes good with a nice salsa to top off the pan­cakes. It roughly makes six reg­u­lar pan­cakes alto­gether. This is sim­i­lar to a recipe in a low carb cook­book but I added some extra good­ies. Spinach and Egg Pan­cakes Ingre­di­ents: 8 oz […]

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Honey Puff Pancake

Here is the recipe from the Bed and Break­fast that Man­z­abar and I stayed at in Dav­en­port. This one pan­cake can eas­ily feed 4 peo­ple. Honey Puff Pan­cake Ingre­di­ents (serves 4) 1 c. milk 1c. flour 6 eggs 1/2 tsp. salt 3 T. honey 1/2 tsp. bak­ing pow­der 3 oz cream cheese 3T. but­ter Honey But­ter Spread: 1/2 […]

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