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January 10, 2013 · 7:51 pm

Blue Cheese Dressing

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After doing as little shopping one of my favorite places to have lunch is Prime at Lenox Square.  I just love their Cobb Salad with blue cheese dressing.  I am happy to say that I have found the recipe so now all of us can enjoy it at home.  It packs a lot of flavor and you’ll find you only need a small amount so guess what – a reduction in the amount of calories.  I can go for that!  I just put together a chopped salad  including chopped romaine, cucumbers, grape tomatoes, and hearts of palm.  I placed all the vegetables in a container with a top and added about a heaping teaspoon of dressing.  I put the top on it and gave it a good shake.  Oh my Gosh!  So help yourself to the greatest salad dressing and it is just a shame that it is so easy to make.

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April 25, 2012 · 2:45 pm

Strawberry Buttermilk Sherbet (Ice Cream)

I made my first ice cream of the year this weekend to reduce the number of strawberries that were overflowing in my refrigerator and wouldn’t you know that the temperature would drop to the low 4o’s.  March was a record high 80′s.  What’s up with this ridiculous range of tempts?  But, no matter what the weather is outside the strawberries are coming in like crazy and there are just so many that I can eat before they go bad.  Southern Living came to my rescue with their winning recipe for ice cream, sherbet, or frozen yogurt.  Whatever you want to name it make sure that you put the word scrumptious in front of it.  It is the easiest ice cream you’ll ever make and what is even better is that it is low in calories.  You might want to hide any straws.  The mixture is so good you’ll want to drink it like a milkshake.  It is that good!

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April 12, 2012 · 8:19 pm

Strawberry Lemonade Muffins

Do you love strawberry shortcake?  I have just the recipe for you, but less trouble and less calories.  This is a fabulous muffin recipe and I know because I have made my share of muffins with high school students.  Since  I just received my first strawberries of the season in my CSA box I was searching for a great recipe.  I did not have to go far.    The new issue of Southern Living coincidentally featured strawberry recipes ranging from strawberry pie to strawberry curd this month.  There many great looking  recipes using strawberries.  I didn’t have to make a choice because my friend Syble mentioned to me that she tried these strawberry lemonade muffins which were divine.  I was sold .  Her word is gold and I love it when I don’t have to make decisions.

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February 20, 2012 · 11:37 am

Double Chocolate Brownies with Caramel Frosting

These could be the best brownies that you have ever had.  They are chewy, chocolaty, nutty, and absolutely out of this world!  With the added caramel frosting it puts them way over the top.  I will confess that at first I did not have such good results with this recipe.  In fact, it was rather dismal.  I get crazy when a recipe does not go like I think it should.  You might say to the point of being obsessive.  Perfection sometimes is my downfall.  I don’t want to settle for mediocre.

In looking for something  a new and exciting recipe to share with my tennis team the photo of these brownies in my 2006 Southern Living Cookbook would not stop dancing in my head.  I made them, but not with the results that I had anticipated.  I did take the less than perfect brownies to my tennis match and one of our opponents walked over to GI Joe and me blubbering ,  ”  I just want to tell you that after eating these brownies, I would like to marry you.”   So then I was on a mission to make them perfectly!   By the way I could have been this guy’s mother.

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September 30, 2011 · 3:27 pm

Old-Fashioned Oatmeal Cake

While I was in high school one of our neighbors made this cake about every two months and I could not wait to have a big chunk.  It was  delicious. After all this time I finally made it myself.   So here is a blast from my past.

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May 30, 2011 · 6:50 pm

Banana Pudding Pie

Everyone that I know loves the Original Banana Pudding recipe that’s posted on the side of most Nabisco vanilla wafer boxes and that’s the one that I usually make.  It is the one that I used in my classroom for our last lab of the year, but with a deterrents thrown our way I was not sure that we could pull it off.  With a fire drill and advisement making the class almost too short to have anything but a glass of milk with vanilla wafers and sliced bananas I had to come up with something or just ditch the lab altogether.  At the last-minute I decided to try speeding up the custard by using the microwave.  It worked perfectly for me —TWICE!  Seven minutes is all it took and that really beats standing over a double boiler for about thirty minutes.  Which meant that my classes could get their Banana Pudding in the oven in less than an hour and still have time to enjoy it in the classroom.

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May 16, 2011 · 9:14 pm

Cream Cheese Banana Bread

This is without a doubt the best Banana Bread that I have ever had! I love banana bread right out of the oven or several days old toasted with a little dollop of butter.  With a nice hot cup of coffee there is nothing better to start my morning.  I fell in love with this bread several years ago when my sister-in-law baked it for breakfast Christmas morning.  I just could not stop gushing over how moist and flavorful it was and could not wait to get home and try the recipe. After making it many times I have gotten it to the point of perfection.

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March 21, 2011 · 6:15 am

Bacon Mandarin Orange Salad

I am perfectly happy having a salad for lunch or dinner.  GI Joe and The Athlete just sit back and roll their eyes if we’re at a restaurant and I order just a salad.  I love all kinds of salads, hot, cold, fruit, pasta, vegetables.  Then add to that nuts, goat cheese, blue cheese, feta cheese, mozzarella.  I will take any of the above.  Oh my gosh, what about dressings?  The options are endless, but the one I’m sharing today is one of my favorites. Continue reading →

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March 7, 2011 · 7:05 am

Pimento Cheese Biscuits and a Great Lab!

 

Being  the Southern Girl that I am I have had my fair share of fried chicken, deviled eggs, buttermilk biscuits, red-eyed gravy and pimento cheese!  With that said I have just made the best Southern biscuits that I have ever had in my entire life.  Yes, that  is correct- my entire life!  Oh, my gosh you have got to make these.  I am telling you that they are so good that you will skip the rest of your meal. 

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September 14, 2010 · 7:50 pm

Luscious Lemon Bars

I made these lemon bars to take to my first tennis match of the season.  It was my first time making them and I don’t really know why I have not made them before now.    I take that back I do know why.  I like them too much!  To me there is nothing better than a sweet and tart dessert.  I love lemon meringue pie and lemon cake.  Now I have another favorite.  It is easy to put together.  The bars have just  two layers, but you don’t have to let the first layer cool before pouring in the lemon layer.  After baking you’ll have to let them cool for about two hours before cutting them. Sorry that you can’t dig right in.  Continue reading →

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