Chocolate Ganache

I made myself a nice chocolate ganache yesterday evening.  I’m very proud of myself.  It was about the simpilest thing I’ve ever made, too. 

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Here for the Food #1

I love to bake, but I pretty well fail at all other cooking.  This is because I can follow a recipe, but I generally lack the understanding of what is happening with the food, to do any real cooking.  Because I this, and my love of Alton Brown’s show Good Eats, I am working my…

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First Recipe Linky

I’m going to try something a little new. I love to cook, so I thought… why not host a link party for people to post their recipes as well? It sounds like a plan to me. Of course, this is the first one, so we’ll see how it goes. You have from today (October 16th,…

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The Candy Shoppe – Welcome Great Pumpkin

Everybody loves candy, especially me.  I love eating candy almost as much as I love making it.  There are tons of fun and creative things that you can do, which are really very simple, but make a big impact.  Today I’m going to tell you about one of those projects. You will need: Green melting…

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Crafty

Matt was farming last night and I took the cat into the vet’s office so that she could get spayed… this ment I was home alone.  I didn’t pull any Macaulay Culkin tricks, but without Matt home to get mad about the mess I was making, or the cat there to attack things, I got a little…

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Squash Pie

I finally got around to making a pie out of my canned squash.  It turned out pretty well, tho.  There are a couple things I would have changed.  I would have made two standard sized pies instead of a single deep-dish pie, because I basically overfilled it and had trouble with over-browning the crust to…

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Basic Chocolate Chip Cookies

I’m still working on cookies for Matt’s open house on Wednesday.  Hopefully this is the last batch I will need to make.  The recipe said it made 11 dozen, of course, I got less.  I ended up with a total of 6 and a half dozen cookies.  Exactly half.  I even used a scoop. Ingredients…

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Earthquake Cookies

Matt is having a big open house at the school this Wednesday.  I’m in charge of cookies for the shindig and he’s invited all of the ag students, their parents, the principal, vice principal and even the school board.  I hate to think how many people that actually is, but it’s a lot.  I’m sure…

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