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Tri-Color Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

The first of the year I started cooking along with the “Cook the Books” Challenge, started by two bloggers Grow & Resist and oh, Briggsy. They choose a cookbook each month and then you select recipes and cook and share your experience with the cookbook on your blog. The April’s “Cook the Books” Challenge is […]

Fresh Blackberry Apple Jelly

If the word homemade jelly makes you think wow that’s a lot of work and looks so hard to do I am here to change your mind. I have been making my own jam for 30 years and I always thought jelly was a lot of work until I decided I was going to give […]

Apple Caramel Cake

Apple season started weeks ago here in Oregon and after a trip to Kiyokawa Family Orchards & Fruit Stand in Hood River, Oregon my refrigerator is bursting with apples. I left with 9 varieties of apples and have several recipes ready to share with you over the next few weeks. The Apple Caramel Cake is […]

The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap

This is my first year as a participant in the 4th annual The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap. Just around 566 food bloggers (That’s a Big Cookie Swap) from across the United States and 6 other countries participated this year. We each sent out 3 batches of our home baked cookies and received 3 batches of […]

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