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Vanilla Cake With Pumpkin Curd Filling and Burned Butter Cream Cheese Icing
This was a surprise hit at Thanksgiving in our home!
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Chocolate Cupcakes (from a Brownie Mix!) with Chocolate Burned Butter Cream Cheese Icing
I wanted to bake cupcakes but didn’t have a cake mix on hand. I also wasn’t in the mood to bake from scratch. However, I saw my brownie mix and thought, “Hmm, I wonder if those could make some interesting cupcakes?!” Lo and behold I was able to adapt my brownie box mix using this
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8 Tips on Foraging for Paw Paw Fruit
Paw paw fruit grows wild near rivers and streams in the forests of Ohio. They tend to ripen right around Labor Day. This posts help you forage for your own fruit, letting your nose be the guide.
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Gallery of Cakes: Because Life Sometimes Forces Us to Stress Bake
Homemade cakes, ice cream cake, cupcakes, and even my failed cakes! Some even have recipes to click on!
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Chocolate Banana Bread Cake with Meringue Crème Frosting: An Anytime Cake, Even For Breakfast!
I began making hordes of banana bread the year I was ravenously hungry while breastfeeding my daughter. I became so obsessed, I soon became inspired to make a cake using my favorite chocolate banana bread recipe.
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Vanilla Gluten-Free Cake With Berry Compote Filling and Lemon Icing
Liked by adults and kids! I’ve now made it for my lemon-loving one-year-old and a friend’s 40th birthday celebration!
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Easy and Moist Banana Bread: My Three Favorite Recipes
I’ve found the best regular banana bread, chocolate banana bread and gluten free banana bread recipes. And then I add fruit and chocolate chips depending on the season.
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Healthy Dorito-Flavored Veggie Pancakes (made with a waffle-maker!)
This dish is a combo of a few recipes I found online in an Asian veggie pancake form, known as Okonomiyaki. Cheese and egg hold the veggies together for a chip-like crunch!
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Asian Pear Smoothie Recipes to Reduce Swelling and Inflammation
Depending on what ingredients you might have on hand, below are a variety of tasty and healthy Asian pear smoothie recipes. They are tailored with specific ingredients to reduce swelling and boost overall wellness!
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How To Reduce Swelling in Legs and Ankles
I learned there are a few different reasons we may experience swelling in the body…
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How to Find Pawpaw Fruit in Ohio
Even though pawpaws are locally grown in Ohio, they are surprisingly difficult to come by! If you’re a non-local like me, you might be wondering, if pawpaws are native to the region, why can’t you just buy one in a grocery store? This is because the fruit must ripen on the tree, and once the
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Grammy’s ‘Waldorf Icing’: The Best Red Velvet Cake Icing
Grammy’s icing is a light yet creamy texture with a distinctive and subtle sweet flavor. It’s an icing that pairs perfect with red velvet cake without overpowering it, but can be used for other cakes, too. The icing can be adjusted to a chocolate, lemon, or strawberry flavor, and best of all, can be made…
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Grammy’s Secret Family Recipe: How To Cook A Turkey With Tomato Juice
I grew up thinking orange gravy was the norm! The blend of homemade broth created from veggies and giblets as well as tomato juice like V8 provide that umami flavor that you want to pour over your whole plate.
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Easy and Versatile Aioli Recipe: ‘Marie’s Joy Mayo’… Homemade in a Blender!
This tasty creation is used for a variety of purposes: dipping veggies, fries, or meats; as an aioli substitute; made into a salad dressing; added into a pasta salad; and the list goes on!
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A Playscape Plant: Cranberry Fliederfarben Pole Bean
I started growing this variant in 2017 from just a few seeds I was given at a local Ohio seed swap from a diehard seed collector.
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‘2020 Dumpster Fire Heat’ Hot Sauce: What to do With Extra Hot Peppers
Found yourself with a surplus of hot peppers? What better way to use them than to make up a batch or two of homemade hot sauce!
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