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MARCHing on to SUGAR HIGH FRIDAYS…SWEET GIFT BROWNIES!
“A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.” Seneca A gift of love…Brownies in a box! This is a box of brownies that I baked for a dear old lady who lives nearby. She is about 78 years old & makes sure she stops by to say ‘Good Morning’ to me at the childrens‘ bus stop every single morning! Two days without a meeting, & she comes by our place to catch up with me! She is a warm, wonderful person, so positive & so full of life, that one wonders why we crib about silly little things! Always…
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NICE & HEALTHY OATMEAL WALNUT COOKIES…& a nice award too!
“We load up on oat bran in the morning so we’ll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there’s no tomorrow.” Lee Iacocca OATMEAL CHOCOLATE-CHIP WALNUT COOKIES While I was making these cookies the other day, the son was very intrigued by the ‘new ingredient’ on the counter. Told him it was oatmeal, a wonder grain with the power to give sustained release of energy the day through, healthy & full of fibre etc. He gobbled a couple & then later on, that night, told me that he ran well that day & felt great…‘Must be the oat cookies Mama!’ . These cookies are crisp,…
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COFFEE WALNUT COOKIES…Heavenly beans!!
“Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee.” Stephanie PiroWALNUT COFFEE COOKIES… Yesterday was a busy day; I loved it. I made these scrumptious coffee cookies & a ‘Citrus Olive Oil Cake’…both from Cafe Fernando’s. This yummy food blog has the most beautiful collection of recipes & lovely pictures. More about the cake in another post…it was delicious too. Have been dying to make cookies ever since I saw them there. It’s a recipe Cenk tried from Alice Medrich’s book Pure Dessert…a book which is full of simple and delicious recipes that focus on pure flavor. The amount of butter was the only deterrent, but I thought…What the…
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HEALTHY DELICIOUS LIME CAKE…with whole wheat too!
“Good food is a celebration of life.”Sophia Loren HEALTHY ‘n’ DELICIOUS LIME CAKE…with whole wheat too! A day without baking is tough to pass. 3 days went by, and the symptoms began. The itch to get back & do something, bake anything..anything to turn the oven on again. My mantra…the only constant is change, a variant of Heraclitus’s Greek philosophy. One of the first things we were told when I had started working many years ago… the philosophy remains. So decided to try my recipe lemon cake again, with a healthier turn to it. Substituted some regular flour for whole-wheat flour & threw in some walnuts too. Disaster struck halfway…
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MOCHA WALNUT CAKE- Healthy Nutty Chocolate-Coffee Cake
“I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.” Harry Mahtar My recipe ‘MOCHA WALNUT CAKE’…with chocolate chips thrown in for good measure! A variation to my own recipe…this time it’s a ‘MOCHA WALNUT CAKE’. I love experimenting, and even though the kids never seem to tire of the regular stuff I bake, I’m always restless for a ‘change‘. The original recipe, a YUMMY PICNIC CHOCOLATE CAKE , was one that I had created & posted a while ago trying to put together a good, tasty & healthy chocolate cake, with just 1/2 a cuppa butter. This is just a variation off that one, is delicious, & has a light…
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STREUSEL COFFEE CAKE…A Delectable Cake for Tea or Dessert
“Laughter is brightest where food is best.” Irish Proverb STREUSEL COFFEE CAKE This recipe is adapted from one of the first baking sites I used to browse many many moons ago…the ‘Joy of Baking‘. Just the other day my friend from Kiev & I were chatting online & looking for poppy seed muffin recipes on this site. One thing led to another, & eventually to this delectable looking ‘Streusel Coffee Cake’. This was last week, but the picture had been haunting me ever since & I just HAD to bake it. I made a few small changes here & there; one for sour cream & the other being orange rind……
