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Not Your Mama’s – “Jacked-Up” Banana Bread
I eat bananas at the peak of yellow…Not a shade before, not a shade after. The problem is I buy more than one banana at a time. Which equates to having a half-dozen bananas that have passed their shade of yellow. Now at shades of black, I toss them into a ziplock freezer bag, and
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Fat Chewy Delicious Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
I can dig good cookies. Big fat chewy cookies that make me belly up to the bar at 10:00 at night, with a glass of cold milk in hand. That is my kind of cookie goodness. Now you have heard me whine on my blog that my baking skills have a lot to be desired.
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Dirt to Table Experience: Fresh Summer Blackberry Cobbler
Blueberries were a bust this season. I still have hope that I can locate and score a few pounds for the freezer. What do you do if life doesn’t throw you summer blueberries? Change your game plan and find summer blackberries. By the way, the blackberries are rocking. Fresh Summer Blackberry Cobbler Serves 6-8 Recipe
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Dirt to Table Experience: Blueberry-Maple Spoon Fruit
Blueberry season has arrived here in North Florida. Each year, I take that trip to a local blueberry farm just east of Tallahassee, and pick enough blueberries to last me until the following season. Blueberries freeze very well. The idea is not to wash your blueberries before freezing them. Also, you don’t have to use
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Glazed Citrus Doodles
This is how you hit my sweet spot….Buttery cookies with citrus. Fresh from the oven Right to my plate Glazed Citrus Doodles Makes 36 Recipe from Everyday Food Ingredients: 2-3/4 cups all-purpose flour (spooned and level) 1 tablespoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon fine salt 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature 1-1/2 cups
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Simply Said….The Best Blueberry Pie
Each year, in early June, our family travels about 30 miles east of our home in Tallahassee to Monticello (a rural almost hip sleepy town) to pick fresh organic blueberries at Green Meadows Blueberry Farm http://www.localharvest.org/green-meadows-farm-M23232. We typically pick enough to last us a year. Last year, we picked by hand over 20-lbs of blueberries-drove