Sounds weird, right? That was what I thought when my friend first mentioned it the other day. Blueberry soup is apparently quite common in Sweden, where my friend is from, and she said that it’s often used as a cold remedy, much like how we use chicken soup as a “cure-all” here in America for
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Happy Halloween, my spooky friends! Your treat for tuning in is a delicious recipe for a sweet cordial, but the trick is that you have to wait for it to be ready! Halloween is my favorite holiday, and while I could spend the entire post telling you all about superstitions and pagan lore and fun
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One of our friends has a big apricot tree in their yard, and it produces more fruit than they know what to do with. This summer, a group of us went and picked several pounds of ripe apricots, and I went on an apricot-baking spree. One of the first things I made was apricot butter,
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Limoncello is an Italian liqueur made with lemon peels, alcohol, sugar, and patience. If you want to put your leftover naked lemons to use, make a double batch of this recipe and then use the fruit and any leftover alcohol to make hard lemonade (or regular lemonade)! This is a set-it-and-forget-it recipe with a quick prep
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The Hubby asked for some homemade jam the other day. I asked him what flavor and his response was: “Blueberry! There isn’t enough blueberry stuff in the world.” I had made a fruit reduction for my strawberry-filled rosewater cupcakes in the past, so I figured it probably couldn’t be too much more difficult than that.
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One of my favorite drinks (next to rum and Coke or Jägermeister and Dr. Pepper) is hard lemonade. I’ve been drinking MIke’s since I was in college. I’d grab a bottle and take it outside with me whenever I had to work on my bike. Now that I’m older and I have more to do
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Today’s post is a guest post, brought to you by Shell Harris, of Smoothie Web! — There is nothing basic about this smoothie, with its added superfoods and creamy, delicious texture. It’s so easy to make, you can whip up this smoothie for breakfast or even a quick snack. The cinnamon and banana add a
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As someone who grew up in an Italian household eating copious amounts of pasta and baking cookies every other day of the week, I never really had much of an interest in dieting. I was vegetarian for a while, but I was also an extremely competitive and active runner at the time, and I couldn’t
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As some of you may know, I love peaches. Peach anything: peach drinks, peach soap, (yes, I own peach soap), peach-colored things, and, above all, peach sweets! I found a recipe for peach “dumplings” and they looked amazing, so, naturally, I had to try my hand at making them.   My summer co-op has me
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Growing up, one of my favorite desserts my mom would make were these sugar-drenched strawberries. I never asked her how they were made, but after years of enjoying them, I could take a decently educated guess. The inspiration came from a spur-of-the-moment trip to Wegman’s. As my friends and I pulled into the Wegman’s parking
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