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Maple Bacon Cornbread Cupcakes with Maple Frosting Garnished with Bacon

Happy Birthday! No, not mine, but it’s the one year anniversary of the Recipe Swap, a group put together by Christianna Burwell. Started as a way to build community and create a challenge for all of us, we are assigned a recipe from an old cookbook that Christianna found at the Tanque Verde Swap Meet. [...]

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Bacon Wrapped Pretzels with Brown Sugar and Cayenne Glaze

I will never forget the words on the hand written recipe that my friend Stacy gave me for these treats so many years ago. It went something like this: Do not proceed if you are looking for a low fat or low calorie dish! Have to admit, she is right but for the occasional treat, [...]

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Snowmass Culinary and Arts Festival 2011 – Featuring Smoked Corn Soup with Smoked Pork Belly & Avocado from Chef Hosea Rosenberg

In the 25 years I’ve lived in Denver, I had never been to Snowmass Village before I traveled there this past weekend. There is no way now to make up for that though I wish I could! It was an unexpected highlight of those 25 years, beginning from the very moment that you turn a [...]

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Spinach Salad with Mozzarella, Pears, Pine Nuts and a Warm Honey, Mustard and Bacon Dressing

I get a box of organic produce delivered to my doorstep once every two weeks from Door to Door Organics. Not quite a CSA but close and I really enjoy making dishes with what arrives in that box. This week it included spinach and pears and I love spinach with fruit and cheese components so [...]

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Maple Bourbon Bacon Jam

Maybe for others it’s been a week of planning, packing, flying and socializing. BlogHer Food in Atlanta, Eat, Write, Retreat in DC and Plate to Page in Germany. I miss meeting the bloggers that I’ve gotten to know professionally and ‘virtually’ but it’s helped immensely that I’ve had a great week with bacon and I [...]

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Quiche Lorraine with Caramelized Onions IS for Real Men!

I was 28 when I moved to Raleigh, NC from a suburb of St. Louis, MO. I had been married for just a couple of years when my husband was offered a management job with a telecommunications company and I was excited about the move. It was going to be hard to leave my young [...]

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Beef Bourguignon, My Birthday with Julia Child and @ManPans Giveaway

A classic dish that is in no way trendy but just perfect for today; so soul satisfying and delicious…but trust me, this is not your mother’s beef stew! I’ve always loved Julia Child. Watching her on PBS was my first ‘Julia’ experience, cooking from ‘Mastering the Art of French Cooking’ brought us closer together and [...]

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Bacon, Bourbon, Pumpernickel and Rye Stuffing

This pumpernickel and rye stuffing (on the right) were recommended to me by a sommelier friend that tweets for a local liquor store . We’ve done a fair amount of recipe sharing and when she said this was amazing; I trusted her. My BFF was coming for Thanksgiving dinner with her family and she asked [...]

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Slaw with Warm Bacon Dressing

My daughter called me on her way to my house to get her dog after work the other day and wanted to know if I had a good slaw recipe. Something different she said; she was heading to a barbecue that night and slaw was a request from the hostess. It’s not like I’m the [...]

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