Category Archives: Seasonal Recipes

Super Bowl Snacks that are Super Good!

Super Bowl parties usually mean high calorie/fat foods and diet derailments.  Just because you are noshing doesn't mean it has to increase the scale the next day.  Healthier versions of high fat and high calories snacks are easy to prepare.  Using low-fat cream cheese and low-fat sour creams in dips gives you the same product with less calories and fat.  Not adding as much cheese, or using lower fat versions helps.  Lean meats versus higher fat varieties are also great. 
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Yeast—My Rise to Better Bread!

I used to envy my friend Jean.  She can bake bread—and always wonderful breads!  She can stick her finger under the water and tell if it’s hot enough to proof the yeast.  She baked most of the rolls and crescent’s for my wedding!  They were heavenly.  I used a thermometer to measure the temperature of the water—then slowly measured everything else our perfectly.  I have never baked so many brick like breads in my life!!!  Then, things changed. I took an
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Baked Stuffed Pumpkin & Pumpkin Orange Muffins

A talented coworker made a Baked Stuffed Pumpkin and Pumpkin Orange Muffins for a nutrition class that she teaches.  She found the recipes on AllRecipes.com.  We loved how it made our office smell and her students really loved the way it tasted.  The baked stuffed pumpkin filled three small pumpkins.  It can be served over pound cake, angel food cook or ice cream.  Make sure to buy baking pie pumpkins or/sugar pumpkins, not carving pumpkins for these recipes.

She made a few adjustments to the baked stuffed
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