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recipes 12.07
This is the best in the whole world and we make it every year for Christmas and Halloween…
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stamped shortbeard
Yield: Approximately 15 (3-inch) cookies 1 cup salted butter, softened 2/3 cup confectioners’ sugar, sifted 2 cups all-purpose…
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Make a good first impression with stamped cookies
Buttery and rich, shortbread and sugar cookies are among the most popular of all the holiday cookies of…
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Geo stamped cookies
Yield: About 1½ dozen (3-inch) cookies 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature 1 cup packed brown sugar…
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Pioneer Potluck: About an abducted Christmas tree
Christmas 1979 Anchorage, Alaska Reminiscence of Christmases Past Christmas 1979 was looking very bleak and lonely. Being the…
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Greet the season – with tomatoes and basil dishes
Even as we move deeper into the holiday season, after nearly a week of Thanksgiving leftovers, many of…
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Pioneer Potluck: About chopping down the Christmas Tree
Northern Colorado 1940’S This last Sunday, part of a sermon by Craig Fanning, about chopping down a tree…
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COOKING ON DEADLINE: Warm Brussels Sprouts Salad
I think this is (possibly) the best Brussels sprouts recipe I have ever made. They are roasted and…
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Pioneer Potluck: Different styles of fixing, serving food
The continued stories of holidays and the differences between Northern and Southern style of fixing and serving food.…
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The Kitchen Ade: Holiday desserts as easy as pie
Using ready-made pie crusts, canned pumpkin and peeled and sliced fresh apples can make baking for the holidays…
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Tomatillo salsa offers fresh approach to poaching salmon
The French love to cook fish by poaching it in a flavored liquid, usually a combination of white…
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Thankful for pumpkin in cheesecake and flan
I’ve made pumpkin pie from scratch – that is, with a filling that’s made with fresh pumpkin. It’s…
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Pioneer Potluck: About Olden Days on Farm Cookstoves
I had many comments of the old cook stove that sat in the corner of the old farm…
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Taking a break from gluten tastes – and looks – delicious
Last week’s column on natural sugar alternatives sparked many requests for ideas for gluten-free baking, especially with the…
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Pioneer Potluck: About cookin’ on a woodstove and the improvements in my 79 years
1937 TO 2016 Cooking on a woodstove is an art you have to learn. You already have the…
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Low sugar + naturally sweet = ‘groundbaking’ book
In late August, just seven months after the United States Department of Agriculture released new guidelines aimed at…
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Pioneer Potluck: About Bob rescuing our black cat named Frack and me calling 911
North Nikiski, Alaska 1990 I certainly hope everyone had a Happy Halloween. The following story is about our…
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Comfort food for family and friends – pot roast for supper, a Bundt for dessert
For many, comfort food doesn’t get much better than pot roast with mashed potatoes and gravy. Cooked stovetop,…
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Pioneer Potluck: About Trick or Treating
On a farm in Northern Colorado 1937 to 1955 and in North Kenai, Alaska 1967 I always smile…
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Winter squash bizarrely colorful, deliciously earthy and sweet
Although technically a fruit (they have seeds and grow on a vine), thick, hard-skinned winter squash are members…