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Cranberry Pumpkin Bread Pudding..oh yeah!

This year I totally went wild with pumpkin recipes. I have always loved the comforting taste of pumpkin in bread, cookies, and soup. For some people, Fall hasn’t officially started until they see pumpkin drinks added to their favorite cafe’s menu board. When I tried to make pumpkin puree from an actual pumpkin versus just

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Baked Apple with a Caramel on Top!

Apples! Apples! Apples!   It seems like I just can’t get enough of that amazing fruit. Here is a super easy and very classy baked apple recipe with a special twist that would have delighted Johnny Appleseed. Top with whipped cream or serve on a caramel drizzled plate and you have a dessert that is gluten-free and

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Apple Galette- Pie with its own sense of style!

My Great-grandma Upton was an amazing cook. She used to make pies and cobblers that would make your mouth water as soon as you walked into her cozy home. One day she sat a pie on the table in front of my Great-grandfather. The crust looked a little funny. “What is that supposed to be?”

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Pumpkin Rolls with Cream Cheese Filling

Ohh my goodness! Fall is here and the thought of sipping on hot apple cider with a dash of fresh nutmeg, watching football, and enjoying the cooler weather makes me want to jump into a pile of freshly raked leaves! But the really awesome thing worth FALLing for is this amazing recipe. I have to admit,

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Chill with Mmm~Mango Banana Smoothie.

I love the taste of summer! Everything is so flavorful and bursting with color. My husband, John, is the green thumb in our family. He has planted a garden everywhere we have lived. Sometimes it is a plot of deep brown soil. Sometimes it is a raised bed with gopher screen lining the bottom. But,

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Roasted Corn Salad

Talk about the amazing taste of summer! I just made this super easy and scrumtious salad from field fresh corn, tomatoes, limes and cilantro. The key to this salad was putting the corn on the grill. It not only cooks the corn perfect, you are not boiling a big pot of water in the house.

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Watermelon-Basil Granita

You know summer is official when you see bins of watermelons at local farmer’s markets and grocery stores. I remember my parents buying watermelons on our way camping and putting them in the stream to keep cold. That was in the day when watermelons were the size of something shot out of submarines and big

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