Daily Jots

When I was a kid, my parents owned a little convenience store at a lake and each day my sisters and I were given 25 cents to spend on whatever we wanted in the store. I remember what I bought vividly… a bottle of Coke and a bag of corn chips. That was definitely a summer to remember! And both for just 25 cents!! Can you imagine what that would cost now?? Anyway, here’s a little trivia and recipes for you.
Did You Know? Fritos Corn Chips were first marketed in 1961.
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“Twinkies might seem like enough of a treat, but this recipe calls for deep frying the cream-filled snack with batter and eating it like a popsicle. To sweeten the deal, there’s a recipe for berry sauce, too.”
Hey, it’s January, it’s freezing and spring feels like a long way away. So, today I think we should do something pecular like deep frying our Twinkies. That’s what they look like, and you have to admit… they do look good!
Has anyone tried them?
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Chin Deep in Bubbles is about all the little luxuries that you can and should experince everyday! My favorite has to be the recipe for French Patisserie Spa Brownies… it’s just full of all kinds of decadent ingredients and if you can’t get decadent at Christmas time, when can you??
And of course I would have a book about the topic. According to my husband, there isn’t a topic that I don’t have something on. I think he’s wrong, but I have to admit that I picked up another book for myself yesterday when I was supposed to be buying …read more

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Well, you must know by now that I am more apt to dump in a can of prepared pumpkin pie filling than, make the filling from scratch, but it’s the crust that grabbed my attention.
I wonder how hard it would be to mix up a bag of pie dough, roll it out and then using a tiny cookie cutter, cut out about a zillion little leaves for the edging and the center of the pie? The crust I can already buy, so all I would have to do is add the tiny leaves. Now how hard could that be? …read more

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I wonder just how many people serve Sweet Potato Pie for Thanksgiving? I’m only wondering because up here, it is traditional to serve Pumpkin Pie. Only problem is… I’m the only one who likes pumpkin pie so we rarely serve it. I don’t like to think about my waistline about a week later because I would probably end up eating the entire pie.
Now to remedy that, the obvious answer would be to invite a zillion people to dinner. Yeah, I know that our thanksgiving is over, but hey… I can celebrate American holidays too.
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“Fresh pumpkins are fun to carve, but don’t forget that they taste good, too. Buy an extra pumpkin and use it to make a batch of sweet, spicy pumpkin butter. It’s like apple butter, but with a kick.
Things You’ll Need
* 1 small (2-lb) pumpkin, peeled and cubed
* 1 1/2 cups water
* 1 pinch salt
* 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
* 1/2 tsp. ground ginger
* 1/4 tsp. ground cloves
* 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
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There is hot chocolate out of a tin and then there is homemade hot chocolate. And just in case you are wondering about the difference… Mexican hot chocolate is heavily spiced with cinnamon, and you use bittersweet chocolate. And if you like it even spicier, the recipe suggests a pinch of chili powder. Now that is definitely taking hot chocolate to the next level! Here are the ingredients…
* 6 cups whole milk
* 1 stick Mexican (Ceylon) cinnamon
* 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
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I swear that I did not know that today’s weird holiday would have anything to do with coffee. It’s a complete coincidence. For some reason, coffee was on my mind this morning and just a few minutes ago, I uploaded “Why You Shouldn’t Drink Black Coffee” and guess what, it’s all I can think about now. While hot coffee is on my mind at the moment, we mustn’t overlook the decadent ice cream versions. So today the choice is yours. But yes, I found a coffee frappe recipe, just in case.
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Just in case you have been waiting… today is Johnny Appleseed Day! That means you had better serve something for dinner that has apples in it. In our house it is usually Apple Crisp and ice cream, but I do remember one year when we found this recipe where you added maple syrup to the filling and it sounded awesome. But for some reason ever time we attempted the recipe, we ended up.. throwing up. It tasted fine, but it simply did weird things to our insides?? Was it a fluke?? I don’t know, but after two episodes, we decided …read more

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Yeah, I have another one for you and it just has to be a decadent dessert. Who in this world can’t like cherries. If there was going to be a fruit that I could pig out on… it would be cherries.
And just in case you are thinking that creating your own dessert would be difficult, yeah, perhaps the real thing just might be, but an easier version is simply cherry pie filling and ice cream. Now I’m no whiz in the kitchen so I’m not sure that I would go the least step, but if you drizzled cognac over …read more

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