Author: Tina

Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

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No Christmas is complete without crinkled cookies. Can you believe this is the first year that I’ve ever made a crinkle cookie?  I’m stunned.  I’ve made about a bazillion cookies and the crinkly ones never seemed to make the cut.  I’ve been missing out.  No mas. First of all these cookies are mad easy to make.  I don’t know about you but I could do with a little easy in my life, especially this time of the year and also especially when I’ve been making more complicated cookies. These are beautifully covered in my precious (aka powdered sugar) so of …

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Home for the Holidays

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Are you gearing up for the holidays?  I’ve been busy baking cookies (tons and tons), but I thought I’d pause for a moment to share what it looks like in our home for Christmas.  Some decorations are new and some are from last Christmas (or past years). This year marks the third year in our home.  Every  year my husband and I get our tree on Thanksgiving weekend.  That was a tradition that started with my family when I was kid.  Nothing beats that smell of fresh pine.  Every ornament has a memory or story associated with it, even the ones …

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Italian Meat Grilled Cheese

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How many of you need a Thanksgiving detox, like I do?  Just to avoid being misleading, this delicious sandwich isn’t going to work for that.  Oh well. I love the traditional Thanksgiving foods.  I really do.  But right now I don’t want to have anything to do with them.  After two big family dinners on Thursday and Friday, I’m ready to move on to healthier pastures.  Although I was singing a different tune the other night when I enjoyed some of my mother-in-law’s leftover pumpkin pie. Truth be told, today’s lunch will probably involve lettuce or yogurt or anything that resembles rabbit food.  These …

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Apple Pie

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Happy Thanksgiving! Yes, I realize that you’re probably out shopping on this Black Friday.  (Kudos to you if you got up early.  I have a date with my pillow.)  I also know that you may be sick of Thanksgiving foods.  But really, who could ever get tired of pie?!  Not me, yo.  So I declare the day after Thanksgiving to be Pie Friday. For the past two years (aka ever since I started my blog) I’ve wanted to share my mother-in-law’s apple pie recipe with you because it’s the best apple pie I’ve ever had.  I’ve actually been making it since way …

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2015 Holiday Gift Guide

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Last year I shared a list of some of my favorite things that I can’t live without in the kitchen.  This year I thought I’d share a list of great gift ideas, outside the kitchen arena.  Grab some coffee… are you ready? For the homebody.  My parents used to buy me slippers every year for Christmas.  Then about two years ago my husband bought me these Ugg Australia slippers.  I wear them all year long.  Seriously, even if it’s 90 degrees out, I’m still sporting them in the house.  They are a bit pricey for slippers, but they are mad comfy and …

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