Dessert
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Coconut Balls
Good morning! And it is a VERY good morning. Last night I finished a gigantic project. The moment I sent off the last file, I shut my laptop (my loaner laptop, that is. But that’s another story), wrapped a blanket around my shoulders, and went outside to stand in the cold and breathe in all that fresh air. A little later, I wrapped Gage up in that blanket and sat us both on the front porch swing to do some more of that fresh-air-breathing, and to listen to all the frogs. Gage and I decided that there must be at least eleven out there (his favorite number) 😀 This is…
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Perhaps the Moistest Chocolate Cake Ever
Seeing as how I’m going to be throwing a lotta lotta healthy recipes at you in the coming weeks (and hopefully, forever after that … fingers crossed!), I figured I’d better get this moist, decadent chocolate-ness out of the way right now. This is an old southern recipe that I got from who knows where. I’ve been making it since before my son was born, and he’s 23 (if that helps). Do your best not to scoff at the two secret ingredients, because if you scoff, and then you go ahead and make it anyway, you’re going to be mighty embarrassed after that first bite, and you’re going to fall…
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Chocolate Graham Cracker Eclair Cake
Happy almost new year! I’m spending today working on a book edit before heading down to church to ring in the new year with our church family. The organizers this year have established a Hawaiian theme for our party. Wonder if I still have time to make a grass skirt … (as if!) Today’s recipe has nothing to do with tonight (I’m using tonight as an excuse to rid my house of all the leftover cookies and candies we don’t need), but it did make an appearance at my sister’s house Christmas night. This is a favorite of our family, and it is one of those desserts that is so…
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No-Bake Mountain Bars … and a Dream
I had a dream last night … and let me tell you, it was a doozy. In this dream, I was in a foreign land, or so I thought, until I realized it was Brooklyn. Dave was there with me, and someone asked him to do a Catholic funeral at a place that was supposed to be a large church, but which ended up being big and expansive, like a sports stadium, except that it also felt like a small, intimate bowling alley. We’d been assigned the center four “lanes” for this particular funeral, but other funerals were going on all around us on the other lanes. Ours was the…
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Spiced Caramel Apple Pie … and a Story
Funny story. So I go out into our “orchard” the other day (Play along. Those seven trees are spectacular.) to harvest apples from our biggest tree. We planted it about twenty years ago, and it has been faithfully churning out apples ever since. Five varieties of apples are grafted onto that tree, and although I long ago forgot which limb produces which apples, it doesn’t matter to me. They’re all delicious. I’m picking away when I notice this one piece of fruit hanging all by itself on this one lone branch. And it looks … well … it looks like a pear. But this is an apple tree. How could…
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Spiced Pumpkin Bars
I had written all but the recipe by Sunday night, but then Monday and Tuesday we were down at the Pacific Northwest Pastors Conference all day, and this morning, I taught a writing class at the Bible College at Calvary Fellowship. I couldn’t get back to it until now. So just tell yourself it’s still Sunday when you read “this morning” and “today.” 😀 What a perfectly wonderful Sunday we had! It was flawless in every way. First of all, I came flying over the last hill on my way to church this morning and saw that the cornfields below our property were shrouded in a misty fog, which is…
