December 22, 2010.   Categories Cookies from Home, Desserts, Giveaways!.

Share Your Favorite Christmas Dessert Recipe – Cookie Cookbook Giveaway! UPDATE:  Christmas Day, 2010 – Entries for this are now closed. The winner is Marni Kaner!  Congratulations Marni! For several days I’ve been struggling with what holiday desserts to make.  When I sent it out to my Facebook fan page, many fans had some great ideas!  I wanted to share them with my readers and preserve the recipes for next...

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December 13, 2010.   Categories By Holiday, Christmas, Cookies from Home, Desserts.

Wyatt’s Christmas Cookies 2010 marks my son’s 5th Christmas and I’ve been feeling nostalgic about it.  What happened to the era of binkies, cribs and pureed food?  It also made me realize that in the not too distant future, I’ll be looking back wondering what happened to this five year old little boy.  Bottom line:  enjoy each moment.  We’ve been lucky, there have been lots of wonderful Christmas moments...

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October 15, 2010.   Categories By Holiday, Cookies from Home, Desserts, Halloween, Thanksgiving Dinner.

Pumpkin, Cranberry Pecan Cookies 3/4 cup pecan halves 1 stick, unsalted butter 1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar 1 large organic egg 2/3 cup pumpkin puree, canned or homemade (but not flavored pie filling) 1 tsp pure vanilla extract 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp baking powder 1.5 tsp ground cinnamon 1/2 tsp ground allspice 1/2 tsp ground cloves pinch of salt 1 cup dried cranberries Method: Preheat the oven to...

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August 2, 2009.   Categories Cookies from Home, Light / Healthy.

Favorite Homemade Granola Protein Bars Adapted from a recipe by Alton Brown Ingredients: 2 cups old fashioned rolled oats 1/4 cup whey protein 1/2 cup raw sunflower seeds 1 cup sliced almonds 1/2 cup wheat germ 1/4 cup flax seed 1/2 cup locally made organic honey 1/4 cup packed dark brown sugar 1-ounce unsalted butter, plus extra for pan 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 6 1/2 ounces chopped combination of your favorite...

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August 2, 2009.   Categories Cookies from Home, Desserts.

Best Peanut Butter Cookies I love good peanut butter cookies.  When I make them, I make a lot of them to give to other people.  This recipe will make about 5 dozen cookies.  If you don’t want to make that many, you can simply cut all ingredient quantities in half. I opted for a larger recipe as many of these cookies are being made by military families who want to send cookies to Iraq or overseas.   This recipe was...

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July 28, 2009.   Categories Cookies from Home.

Gingerbread Cookies Recipe by www.tasteofhome.com Today a very nice reader asked me for recipe suggestions for cookies she could send to her son in Iraq.  It’s a difficult journey for perishable items with an approximate two week shipping time and temperatures as high as 130 degrees.  I wanted to help her so I did some research and found this recipe online.  It was part of a heart-warming story about a mom’s quest to send cookies...

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