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Breakfast & Brunch Cookies & Bars Vegetarian

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?…

Breakfast & Brunch Cakes & Cupcakes Sweets

Drunken Monkey Cake

PollyJanuary 30, 2011August 22, 2025

The Drunken Monkey Cake—my third cake from All Cakes Considered by Melissa Gray. The directions were bothersome again, but I (mostly) made it as directed the first time 😉 This recipe resulted in a cake that was too moist (probably too…

Breakfast & Brunch Cakes & Cupcakes Sweets

Ina Garten’s Sour Cream Coffeecake

PollyJanuary 22, 2011August 19, 2025

Bake this! It’s yummy. Not too sweet. Classic coffee cake. Goes well with coffee. Very well. A nice Sunday breakfast or mid-morning snack. Or both. Winner, winner, winner! My son likes the two-day old leftovers so much he’s taking them back…

About Me

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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