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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes

If there’s someone in your life who loves the (irresistible?) combination of peanut butter and chocolate, might I suggest you forgo the traditional Valentines’s Day wine and box of chocolates and make these for your beloved instead? The chocolate cake recipe is a “KAF Gauranteed” from King Arthur Flour. It offers a balanced chocolate flavor […]

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Beef & Irish Draught Stew

Alas, no picture for this as we — and 15 other friends — gobbled this up too quickly. Also, it’s hard to photograph stew in an attractive fashion; I mean, have you tried recently? It comes out looking, literally, like a hot mess. Looks aside, I can assure you it’s a delicious stew that tastes […]

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Winter Night Salad

When Shane & I used to frequent Ports Cafe, I’d almost always order the winter night salad. It combines crisp romaine lettuce; sweet but tart apples; salty, tangy blue cheese; and a few other goodies to create a delectable salad. I hadn’t had it in over a year (we’ve been distracted by this place, this […]

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Closin’ Cookies

On Friday evening, Shane & I officially put our house up for sale. A few hours later, we had two separate parties asking to see the house the next day. Saturday morning, Shane ran around like a chicken with its head cut off cleaning the house, taking stuff to storage, etc., etc., where I was […]

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