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World’s Easiest Ice Cream Recipe

Ice cream is pretty simple to make, but can be tedious and time-consuming. This one is too simple. You won’t believe it’s as good as I’m telling you. I didn’t believe it either. I read about it over a month before I finally made it … what a waste of time. If you like ice cream, [...]
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How To Make Mango Salsa de Gallo

I’m not doing this just to get angry comments from salsa fans, or pico de gallo purists. I swear I’m not. I was just trying to make something tasty with all the cilantro I’m getting from the garden, and the gorgeous mangoes they’ve had on sale at the grocery store the last couple of times. So [...]
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How To Make Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

This banana bread recipe is another one from the 1949 Ohio State Grange Cook Book. Like the others we’ve tried, this is much less sweet than other recipes I’ve tried, and I like it that way. You can add chocolate chips (like we did) or frosting and it won’t become overly sweet.
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How To Make Cocanes

You never know what you’re going to find when you look through really old cookbooks. This time the recipe is pretty normal … but the name. Are you kidding me? Did they not know what that sounded like? If you don’t believe me, here’s a picture of the original recipe in the Ohio State Grange cookbook. Name [...]
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How To Make Pineapple Drop Cookies

If you’ve been following since August of 2008*, you might remember me saying that the bruschetta pizza disappeared before I was able to get any. These pineapple cookies must have been even better, because I never even got the photo of them after coming out of the oven before they got snarfed up. UPDATE: Obviously that’s [...]
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