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Homemade Honey Mustard Salad Dressing

      I love a good salad. We’re planting lettuce this week and I am pretty giddy at the thought of those fresh summer salads (especially considering the local market is charging $3.58 for a head of red leaf!)! This is my favorite dressing to drizzle over my greens-hands down. My Aunt created this […]

Homemade Chocolate, Peanut Butter…FROGS!

    It just doesn’t get any more simple or delicious OR FUN! Chocolate Peanut Butter Frogs…for Passover!   All you need to pull these off is a bag of chocolate chips (I love milk chocolate–but use your favorite!), some peanut butter and a mold or muffin tin. Melt your chocolate chips in a double […]

Handmade Matzah

  It’s time for Matzah! No, not the store bought ‘cracker’ matzah (although I have some of that in my pantry…) this is the real deal. Matzah made with LOVE. Cracker Matzah is like munching on cardboard…with lotsa crumbs. Brutal. That’s not love. Love is soft, yummy handmade matzah…slathered in fresh homemade buttah. That. Is. […]

The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

  Looking for the ‘perfect, classic, always-a-winner, go-to’ Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe? This is our family favorite. Crisp, yet chewy…always delicious, never last long enough…Chocolate Chip Cookies…nom nom nom. Gather up your ingredients and let’s make up a batch (or 2…or 3 … the dough freezes wonderfully)!   3 Sticks (1 1/2 C) Butter (softened) 2 […]

Treats for Hanukkah

      Hanukkah is almost here and that means it is time for some delicious noshing! One of our favorite family traditions is gathering together on a winter afternoon / evening and  making frosted sugar cookies and decorating them, of course! (There might be a little sampling going on too…) Here is my recipe […]