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admin May 26, 2015 copycat recipes, dessert

Homemade Orange Creamsicle Pops Recipe

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! If your children are like mine, they want ice cream all the time and even more in the summer. While you can find some great deals on ice cream treats in the summer, it still doesn’t make up for the fact that most of them are just a combination of high-fructose corn syrup and water, along with some artificial flavorings! And so, like my homemade watermelon sorbet recipe and my homemade Slurpee recipe (and even my homemade fruit roll-up recipe), this orange creamsicle pop recipe is a nice way to make your children happy and give them the treats that they crave, while still trying to “keep the ingredients real”. If you already

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admin May 23, 2015 copycat recipes, side dishes

Eating From Your Garden – Spinach Recipes

Are you planting spinach this year? Spinach grows so fast that you are going to need to have plenty of recipes to use it. After all – what is the point of growing it if it is just going to go bad on the vine? For the next few weeks, we will be exploring all the different ways to use your fresh-from-the garden produce. One of my favorite ways to use up my spinach is to just make a simple spinach salad, but there are so many other ways to use fresh spinach. Here are some ideas for you: Southwest Smoked Turkey Wrap With Chipotle Mayonnaise – This Southwest Smoked Turkey Wrap with Chipotle Mayonnaise is so easy to make and it provides some nice

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admin May 20, 2015 copycat recipes, soups

Copycat Olive Garden Chicken and Gnocchi Soup Recipe

My children just love going to Olive Garden (although not so much since the took pizza off the menu), but let’s just say that it is not a favorite of mine. As I get older, I seem to be less tolerant of the “chain restaurants” and prefer going to locally-owned restaurants. I do still have quite a few favorite dishes from those chain restaurants….I guess that is why I like to make so many copycat recipes! Anyway – one thing that I always enjoyed when my children would drag me to Olive Garden is their soups, especially the Chicken & Gnocchi soup. It is just so rich and creamy and, when paired with a salad, can be a delicious meal all on its

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admin May 16, 2015 baked goods, copycat recipes

How To Make Your Own Brown Sugar

Have you ever been baking and when you went to grab your brown sugar, found that it had turned in to a hard block because somehow it had been exposed to air? Sure – people say that you can just microwave it to soften it, but I have never really had good luck with that. Making your own brown sugar is really quick and easy, will save space in your cabinets. Instead of keeping white sugar, light brown sugar AND dark brown sugar in your cabinets (and wondering if the brown sugars will be a rock when you go to use them), you simply need some white sugar and some molasses! I did the math based on the prices at my local Wegmans and, using store-brand