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Strawberry Volcanoes
FruitsSeasonalSummerSweets

Strawberry Volcanoes

PollyJuly 27, 2010August 28, 2025

Everyone is making chocolate covered strawberries now—Everyone. Sooooo, it’s time for us to move onto Strawberry Volcanoes! Just look at that picture! Am I right, or am I right?! I saw a picture of Strawberry Volcanoes on TasteSpotting a few…

Molly Wizenberg’s Winning-Hearts-and-Minds Cake
Cakes & Cupcakes

Molly Wizenberg’s Winning-Hearts-and-Minds Cake

PollyJuly 14, 2010August 4, 2025

It’s a one layer cake. Rustic looking. Uneven. No frosting. No filling. But! Fabulous. FAB-YOOO-LICIOUS! The outside is lightly crispy, lightly crunchy, and the inside is soft, creamy, and rich. One tablespoon of flour holds the chocolate, sugar, eggs and…

Amazing Overnight Waffles and Fresh Blueberry Sauce
Breakfast & BrunchFruits

Amazing Overnight Waffles and Fresh Blueberry Sauce

PollyJuly 10, 2010August 4, 2025

These waffles are delicious; the first bite has a wonderfully light crispness to it, and I know you’ll love it! The waffle batter is mixed the night before, covered and set out on the counter to ferment a bit. In…

Chilled Green Beans for Snacking
AppetizersVeggies

Chilled Green Beans for Snacking

PollyJuly 8, 2010August 24, 2025

Move over Doritos! Get out of here Bagel Bites! Got you beat, baby carrots! I find these to be quite an addictive finger food. They are a perfect summer appetizer, seasonal, chilled, and good for you. What’s wrong with a…

Hot Chocolate Lava Cakes
Cakes & CupcakesSweets

Hot Chocolate Lava Cakes

PollyFebruary 15, 2010March 7, 2026

Look what my daughter Abby made for us for Valentine’s Day! She printed off three recipes, tried two of them and here’s the best. The cakes are easier to make than they look, and they can be mixed up a…

Polly’s One & Only Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe – 5 Ways!
Cookies & Bars

Polly’s One & Only Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe – 5 Ways!

PollyFebruary 6, 2010March 7, 2026

Here’s my recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookies—it’s the only one I’ve used since 1981!  I haven’t even looked at another chocolate chip cookie recipe since then 🙂 This recipe makes a straight-up chocolate chip cookie; nothing fancy, just pure goodness.…

Swedish Butter Cookies Three Ways
Cookies & BarsSweets

Swedish Butter Cookies Three Ways

PollyFebruary 5, 2010January 13, 2026

Here is my favorite recipe for butter cookies—it’s an easy one, and the cookies are melt-in-your-mouth delicious!  A Mommy group friend made these for a Christmas Cookie Exchange way back when our babies were just toddlers. Now my toddler has…

Shredded BBQ Beef Sandwiches
CrockpotMain DishRed MeatSandwiches

Shredded BBQ Beef Sandwiches

PollyFebruary 5, 2010August 18, 2025

Here’s one more recipe suggestion, tried and true, an easy one for your Super Bowl party! On your way home tonight (Game Day minus two) pick up a 3-4 lb. beef roast, any kind—bottom round or rump are fine—just get…

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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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