Hostess Cupcakes

I made my own Hostess cupcakes! I took the majority of them to work to share with my peeps but I personalized a few of them for us at home. I was pretty happy with the cupcakes but I think I can find a better cake recipe. The cake was a little dry and crumbly. I think the marshmallow creme and rich ganache deserve a better cake.

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Irish Hand Pies

Martha sent me an email right before St. Patrick's Day for some Irish handpies. They were good. I didn't think I could go wrong with some of my favorite foods in pie crust :) Cabbage, red potatoes, beef, thyme, tomatoes.

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I didn't get a picture of them after I baked them. I ended up shaping the pies and flash freezing them for later meals. They were wrapped, frozen, and then baked frozen for 30 minutes.

Spring Chicken Pot Pie

This has become one of our favorite meals. It is meant to use spring vegetables like asparagus, leeks, carrots, etc. It is so nice to eat this- it truly tastes like home cooking. Now I just need to find THE perfect pie crust recipe so it's truly homemade. I used a refrigerated (processed) pie crust from the grocery store. It tastes good, but it just doesn't cut it for me!

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Comfort foods

For dinner we had Mozzarella stuffed turkey meatloaf, homemade macaroni and cheese, and salad. James refused it all :(

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This is an easy meatloaf if you have an hour to wait for it to bake. I love that it includes spinach!

Also, the macaroni and cheese recipe makes TONS. I can usually freeze portions of it and bake them later.

Southwestern Eggrolls

Tonight I experimented with Southwestern Eggrolls. I liked that they are baked and not fried. Next time I would try the more traditional Asian filling, but they were good. It's nice to try new things. (I wish my three year old son could read that.)

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Chocolate Cheesecake

I made some mini chocolate cheesecakes for a friend's birthday. Yum.

There is no online recipe to link to- ask me if you want me to send you a copy of the recipe. It is from my Better Homes and Gardens Baking cookbook.

Key Lime Pie

Key Lime pie with coconut pecan graham crust.

I've made this twice now and my dear husband has already asked for it again. Key Limes aren't in season for very long it seems so he would have to bear with bottled key lime juice and that just doesn't seem right.

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Chicken Scallopine

Chicken Scallopine is one of our favorite meals ever. Yum. You just can't go wrong with the Pioneer Woman. Or pan fried chicken in butter and olive oil. Or lemons and pasta. Oooh, and capers and mushrooms. (Dreamy sigh!)

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Cinnamon Bun Ebelskiver

We all had our Valentines breakfast of Cinnamon Bun filled pancakes with cream cheese icing and Eggs. Yum.

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These are quite a bit of effort. There is the pancake mix to make (involving whipped egg whites, a bit more time consuming), and then a cinnamon filling to make, and then the cream cheese icing. And then you cook the things. It is a wonderful treat though!

Raspberry Cream Sandwich Cookies

I made cookies for the people at work to celebrate Guidance Counselor appreciation week. Vanilla bean cookies with raspberry cream. They were delicious. I had several requests for the recipe (that I gladly shared, of course) and I had reports that others had the same great success with these cookies. They were definitely one of my favorite cookies ever. I need to bake them again.

I found the recipe in my Martha Stewart Cookies book, but here is the recipe online on good ol' Martha's website.

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Jalapeno Thingies

Football night needed some manly munchies! Jalapeno thingies. Oh, these are great. Addictive. Tasty. You NEED to make these.

Basic ingredients- BACON, cream cheese, jalapenos. You just can't go wrong.

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