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Triple Chocolate Mousse Torte
Asst Holidays & EventsCakes & CupcakesSweets

Triple Chocolate Mousse Torte

PollyNovember 15, 2023April 26, 2026

This is the cake I wanted for my birthday this year and it’s what a friend requested for her birthday a few months ago. It’s a fabulous trifecta of chocolate: semi sweet chocolate in a brownie-like cake on the bottom,…

Pumpkin-Chocolate Cake
Asst Holidays & EventsCakes & CupcakesFallSeasonalSweets

Pumpkin-Chocolate Cake

PollyOctober 25, 2023December 2, 2025

This is the BEST cake to serve at this time of year (or any other time of the year, actually)!  It’s a good chocolate cake – a very, very good chocolate cake; it’s moist, and nicely chocolate-y, and made richer with some pumpkin…

Sweet and Cinnamon-y Apple Bread
BreadsBreakfast & BrunchFallSeasonalSweets

Sweet and Cinnamon-y Apple Bread

PollySeptember 9, 2023August 28, 2025

Bread baking is my Everest—meaning I haven’t conquered it yet! I’m not even at base camp so the bread recipes that appeal to me are easy and pretty much foolproof 🙂  Here’s one of my favorites! The recipe is so…

Triple Threat Chicken
GrillingMain DishPoultrySeasonal

Triple Threat Chicken

PollyJuly 24, 2023September 16, 2025

The picture above was taken on the tiny balcony of my daughter’s apartment, the first time she made this chicken, and only the third time she had ever BBQ’d.

Lemon Cream Ice Cream
FruitsGluten FreeIce Creams & SorbetsSeasonalSummerSweetsVegetarian

Lemon Cream Ice Cream

PollyJune 1, 2023August 28, 2025

Bet you’ve never had Lemon Ice Cream . . .  Not lemon sorbet, or lemon sherbet, or lemon granita or lemon frozen yogurt, but real lemon ice cream—creamy, rich, sweet, intense lemon ice cream. Intrigued? Tempted? I hope so, because I have…

Chocolate Covered Caramel Graham Crackers
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Chocolate Covered Caramel Graham Crackers

PollyMarch 29, 2023January 13, 2026

This recipe is rustic, quick, and done in 20 minutes!  But once made, the bars have to sit in the refrigerator to harden up a bit 🙂 The finished product also freezes well, so it’s okay to make ahead or…

Chocolate Peanut-Butter-Chip Cookies
Cookies & BarsSweets

Chocolate Peanut-Butter-Chip Cookies

PollyMarch 24, 2023July 15, 2025

This recipe is from the back of the bag of Reese’s Peanut Butter Chips.  The cookie is fabulous!  It’s like a peanut butter cup in cookie form 🙂 My daughter made these cookies for a Back of the Box themed Cookbook…

Crunchy Oat Clusters / Granola Bars
Breakfast & BrunchVegetarian

Crunchy Oat Clusters / Granola Bars

PollyFebruary 11, 2023August 16, 2025

Sometimes, I don’t want to cook in the morning.  Sometimes I don’t even want to make toast.  I just want a lovely latte—I am always willing to make a latte—and something on the side, while I casually drink my coffee,…

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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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