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Delicious Nutty Ball Cookies
Holiday time wouldn’t be the same, at least in our household, without some holiday cookie baking. Each year, I always try some new recipes that I’ve torn from my cooking magazines or printed off from my favorite blogs. But I always open my tattered binder of family favorites…the ones that make a comeback appearance in the cookie tins I give as gifts each year. Nutty balls are just that – the type of recipe typed with a typewriter on a recipe card that reads “here’s what’s cookin'”. I don’t have the original card; that would be in my mom’s collection as I have been making them since I was…
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Banana Pumpkin Spelt Bread
Banana Pumpkin Spelt Bread I frequently make banana bread for my family because I feel better giving this as a snack to my children rather than a packaged granola bar or other processed food. The problem is our household of five consumes so many bananas that few ever make it to that over-ripe stage necessary for great banana bread. I have since learned to buy extra bananas at the store. I then hide three of them from my little monkeys and their monkey daddy so they may achieve their spotty brown stage for this scrumptious quick bread. Many banana and pumpkin breads call for large amounts of oil…
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Coconutty Chicken Tenders
When I first got married, I received a cookbook with recipes for two. Sixteen years, four moves and three children later, the cookbook has long since disappeared. But I recall the one standout chicken dish I made from it on a regular basis. The trick was to first coat the chicken breast with a butter/mustard mixture and then smother it in breadcrumbs and Parmesan cheese. I’m sure the breadcrumbs were from a cardboard container and the Parmesan, too, but the result was a moist, oh-so tender breast. Couldn’t this same technique be used to create a healthy, homemade chicken tender that my whole family could enjoy eating? Yes, thanks to…
