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This is not one of my usual entries. Rather it has to do with your favorite Christmas dishes. If you have one and would like to share it with others, please feel free to post it as a comment to this entry so others may read it and perhaps use it this holiday season. Comments are public. Simple as that. Merry Christmas – John.

As I slowly emerged from the office broom closet, making sure that no one else was nearby, my heart was racing and my face felt flush. I knew that what I had done was wrong, and that a sin like that never goes unpunished. However, I had never let that stop me before, and this time was no different. When I saw something I wanted, I went for it. Call me pushy, call me brassy, call me what you will,...

Banana Crunch Cake Ingredients: 2 Tbs Flour ¼ cup Shredded Coconut ¼ cup Rolled Oats, instant 2 Tbs Brown Sugar 2 Tbs Pecans, chopped 2 Tbs Butter, soft 1 Banana - Very ripe ¼ cup Fat Free Sour Cream 2 Eggs ½ box Yellow Cake Mix Directions: Instructions 1. Combine flour, coconut, oat, brown sugar, pecans...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about experimenting with a recipe that replaced shortening in brownies with an equivalent amount of black beans. I first noticed the recipe on Heidi Swanson’s wonderful Web site 101 Cookbooks. Heidi wished she had created the recipe but instead credited Ania Catalano’s new cookbook, Baking with Agave Nectar, as the source. Applesauce or vanilla yogurt had been my go-to...

While visiting the priest, we watched the caged birds mate as we sat in the room for tea and cake was served. My mother did try not to laugh and failed so loud. I looked for proof the birds were both of different gender As we sat in the room for tea and cake was served the mating birds both fell off of their stick and died . The priest began to cry so bad, that we should leave. My mother...