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One Dough-Four Cookies
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One Dough-Four Cookies

PollyDecember 9, 2025December 13, 2025

The actual recipe includes five cookie versions, but four are much easier to make at once: make a double batch of the dough, divide it in half, then add half the quantity of ingredients for each variation to make four…

Peppermint Bark Cookies
ChristmasCookies & BarsSweetsTwelve Days of Christmas Cookies

Peppermint Bark Cookies

PollyDecember 3, 2025December 9, 2025

Mmmm, the flavors of Christmas! For me they are gingerbread, eggnog and peppermint 🙂 A decade or so ago, Bon Appetit magazine featured this Peppermint Bark Cookie. It’s a shortbread base that’s topped with melted chocolate, crushed candy canes, and…

Wild Rice Turkey Soup
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Wild Rice Turkey Soup

PollyNovember 30, 2025December 22, 2025

Happy day after Thanksgiving! If you haven’t done so already, boil up that carcass to get some delicious turkey stock, then make this soup—it’s delicious! You have to make this with your turkey carcass, have to, have to, have to! …

Fruity Pumpkin Bundt Cake
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Fruity Pumpkin Bundt Cake

PollyOctober 10, 2025December 2, 2025

This bundt cake is moist, pumpkin rich, studded with 2 cups of dried fruit and nuts, with a splash o’ rum, a hearty heap o’ cinnamon and topped with an orange-cinnamon glaze—what’s not to like?!  I’ve been making this cake…

Herby Flatbread for the Grill!
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Herby Flatbread for the Grill!

PollyAugust 28, 2025September 16, 2025

We love this! It does take a bit of finesse to cook the flatbread over a fire, and we are not always successful, but it’s a fun project to do while the BBQ’d meat is resting and the coals are…

Summer Fruit Coffeecake
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Summer Fruit Coffeecake

PollyAugust 23, 2025August 28, 2025

I adore coffeecake. Coffeecake is served warm, so it’s comforting and can be served directly from the pan it was baked in. It doesn’t have frosting, so it’s not too-too overly sweet. It’s communal, shouting out to be shared with…

Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars
Cookies & BarsFallJams, Curds & MarmaladesVegetarian

Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars

PollyAugust 22, 2025August 28, 2025

From my days as a mom of little kids, here’s a recipe for some fancy peanut butter bars. Make them for a lunchbox surprise or a special after school treat. They are not just for kids though, these are really…

Homemade Granola Bars
Breakfast & BrunchCookies & BarsVegetarian

Homemade Granola Bars

PollyAugust 17, 2025August 28, 2025

Still buying granola bars? There’s no need! This is an easy recipe for granola bars and you can make them to fit your flavor profile. What kind of nuts do you like? Peanuts, pecans, almonds, cashews or a nice mix?…

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It's all about the recipe—really, it is! I have amassed quite a collection of recipes from my favorite cookbooks, food magazines, friends, the Internet, and more recently my adult daughters. I test every recipe I post. Some I've been cooking for years, decades even, and a few I have made only a few times. I don't post mediocre recipes. I don't post good recipes. I post GREAT recipes! When I find a recipe I LOVE, I can't wait to share it. I started In the Kitchen with Polly on January 01, 2010, a joint venture between myself and my non-cooking but most excellent webmaster, proofreader, technical goddess and all-around bestie, ratty (not a joke—ratty is her chosen nickname—her Mama didn’t do that to her, she did it to herself!). Last year we hit a snag—the website went up in monstrous flames. It took a long time to sort out what happened and even longer to recreate what was lost. Hundreds of pictures gone, and every recipe we posted (300+) over the last 14 years had to be reformatted, many pictures retaken. It's done now though, and we are back! I like this brighter version :) Scroll through! Find something you like, and let's get cooking! There’s a search button and there are also tags to click on if you want to find a recipe for a specific food. If you need it, the print button is on the preview page and at the end of each post.

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