Blueberry Upside-Down Coffee Cake
Just a reminder: there’s no coffee in coffee cake! Coffee cake is cake to be eaten with the perfect cup of coffee. And that, my friends, is what a weekend quarantine breakfast is all about. Throw in a good book…
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Cafe Mocha Pinwheels
I love cookies! These are fun, a bit different, striking, and feature grown-up flavors of mocha and espresso. I found the original recipe in the Taste of Home publication, ‘Fall Baking 2019‘ (unknown availability). After my first try, following the…
Fresh Blueberry Pie
I make two* no-bake pies in the summer, a Fresh Strawberry Chocolate Pie and this Fresh Blueberry Pie. Fresh pies are quick to pull together, don’t heat up the kitchen, and are crowd pleasers. Just remember to start early in…
Poached Shrimp for Lots of Things
Like tossing into a salad, putting in a tea sandwich with cucumbers, as a retro shrimp cocktail appetizer, or to serve as an appetizer with toothpicks and a favorite sauce or dip 🙂 The recipe and accompanying photo is from…
Peanut Butter Blossoms
There are other cookies on this plate, but this recipe is for the large cookie on each side of the plate, the one with either a Hershey’s Hugs or Kiss in the middle. My daughter, Abby, is the cookie-baker in…
Pasta with Shrimp and Cilantro-Lime Pesto
I think we’ve pretty well established that pasta can be an easy, quick, flexible and satisfying meal, right? Well, ever had one with 3T tequila? No? Well, here you go! With freshly made pesto, too! And you should be able…
Homemade Cherry Pie (from fresh cherries)
My daughter used to have a cherry tree in her back yard and the cherry crop was always enormous! We were in cherry heaven for a few years and then, suddenly and most unfortunately, the tree died. It was a…
Fresh Cherry Salsa
I am fortunate to live in an area with some remaining cherry orchards. For a few weeks each year these orchards are open for U-Pick cherries.  Seeing as how we are in the midst of a pandemic—80 days of Shelter-In-Place…