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Keeping cool with Watermelon Margaritas
Like a lot of the rest of the country, we're melting here in Knoxville. It's been a miserable summer with dry, hot weather and since we live in an old house with only a few window units, we try to...
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Pretending Caramelized Onion, Peach & Brie Quesadillas Are Diet Food
I spent this past weekend with a group of the loveliest women imaginable at a spectacular food event called IFBC (recap coming soon). Let me quickly say that it was an amazing weekend full of fun,...
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Apple Loaf Cake – A Sweet Slice of Fall
Let me put my biases & handicaps up front. I am not a fan of most low-fat, "healthy" baked goods. I think they're usually one note as far as flavor goes and are crammed with so much sugar that...
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Winning over Pear Haters with Red Cabbage, Pear, and Cranberry Slaw with...
My husband has a severe aversion to pears. I’ve tried feeding him the most delectable, melting specimens of pears in order to woo him over to the pear side. How can you not like a fruit that gets so...
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Anniversary Apple Butter & Loving the Wrong Person
Loving the wrong person We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us, but if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors...
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Black Bottom Banana Cream Bars and Remembering Lester
Tomorrow, it will be a year since my Father-in-law died. A year that’s been full of watching my husband go through the hardest struggle I’ve ever had to watch him face. It’s one thing to think about...
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Buttermilk Pudding Cakes with Sugared Raspberries are Better than Eastern...
Last week I celebrated a birthday. I suppose I could be coy and not name the actual birthday but screw it, I’m 38 and all the secret Eastern European face lifts and Botox in the world isn’t going to...
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Watermelon Gin Fizzes Actually Repel Scary Thunderstorms
Please tell me that I’m not the only one here in Knoxville that gets panicky now whenever a thunderstorm heads our way? My childhood fears have crept back recently and I find myself getting anxious...
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Black Bottom Banana Cream Bars and Remembering Lester
I’m on a brief blog hiatus for the next little bit, so I thought posting some of my favorite posts from the past would be a good way to fill in until I got a new blog post up. This post is from May...
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Anniversary Apple Butter & Loving the Wrong Person
I’m on a brief blog hiatus for the next little bit, so I thought posting some of my favorite posts from the past would be a good way to fill in until I got a new blog post up. This post is from...
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Grapefruit, Pomegranate & Bathtub Gin Marmalade, or Why I Haven’t Snorted...
I would have made the perfect Annie. If I had to name my top ten favorite movies, I’d spend at least a couple of hours finalizing my list, picking through the films I love and figuring out which ones...
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TARDIS Blueberry Scones and How The Doctor Helped Me Beat Cancer
I have never been a big television person. Friends, The Sopranos, Parks & Recreation, Breaking Bad – I’ve watched all of these televisions shows at some point, but they never stuck. I’d start out...
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