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Pretzel Dogs
I generally don’t care for hot dogs. I won’t go into detail, but I pretty much find them to be wrong on many, many levels. That being said, there are moments in life when a hot dog sounds like a fantastic idea. For instance – sporting events. Hot dogs always taste good at baseball games, soccer games, basketball games, football games…well – I suppose they are always better when they come from a concession stand. My Dad makes an amazing grilled hot dog. He cooks…
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A Pantry Makeover Part 4: Glidden Paint
Several weeks ago, we took on the daunting task of updating and renovating our walk-in pantry. When we built our house five years ago, pantry functionality and design was, unfortunately, not high on our priority list. Given how frequently we use that little room, it’s really a shame we put it off so long. My friends over at Glidden® paint made the process so much easier. After submitting a few of my inspiration photos to their online My Image Inspiration tool , I was actually able…
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White Chocolate & Vanilla Bean Cupcakes
I just looked over the top of my laptop at my husband, who’s sitting on the couch next to me, and said “I don’t have any wittiness for my blog post.” He just looked at me funny. You guys don’t care about wittiness, do you? You care about cupcakes. I knew it. You’re just using me. See? No wittiness. I’m not even sure I’m spelling that right. Wittiness? Witty-ness? Wittyness? My spell checker likes wittiness, so we’ll go with it. Have you ever said a…
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Lemon Love
I spend so much time on here talking about food, which is lots of fun, but I think it’s time to add something more to the pages here at Lemon Sugar. I get SO many emails, Facebook messages and Tweets asking about my favorite kitchen products, cookbooks and even what kind of dog I have, so I thought you might enjoy a new feature here on Lemon Sugar – Lemon Love. From time to time, I’ll share my favorites with you – what I’m loving,…
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Superbowl Recipe Roundup
Can you believe we’re already gearing up for Super Bowl Sunday? My team is nowhere near Super Bowl status (ever), but it’s really about the parties and the commercials anyway, isn’t it?
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Torte
There’s a thing in this world…it’s called too much peanut butter. This is not that. This is the perfect amount of peanut butter. Which, I suppose is hard to measure because some people don’t like peanut butter. Who are these people? I’ve heard of them, but I’m not sure that I’ve ever met one of them. Actually, now that I think about it, I’m not even sure that there’s a thing called too much peanut butter. That’s probably not possible. This is what happens when…
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Creamy Baked Pasta
I love pasta. I really, really love pasta. I seriously think I could eat it every day and never tire of it. Since my husband doesn’t really share my obsession, we don’t eat it as often as I would like, so I tend to save it for the nights he’s working and I’m just cooking for myself and the girls. However, I made this earlier in the week and JR really liked it too, so I guess that says something! The best thing about it…
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A Rainbow Party
Last weekend we celebrated my daughter’s and niece’s 4th birthday with a Rainbow party. They’ve been talking about it forever, pretty much since the day after their Princess Party last year. We were a bit hurried, especially after we ate dinner because the weather was supposed to get bad, and everyone kind of left in a mad rush to beat the storms. As usual, I focused the decoration for the party around my dessert table. A simple white table cloth allowed the rainbow colors to…
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Blueberry Muffins with Maple Butter
Isn’t it funny how food can take you back in time? My freshman year in college, my husband and I still lived at home with our parents and traveled back and forth to the neighboring town to attend classes together every morning. (Yes, we were super cool.) On our way to class, we frequently stopped at our local convenience store/gas station and grabbed something to eat and drink for breakfast. I used to get a blueberry muffin and chocolate milk, warming the muffin up in the microwave and trying…
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Cookies for Kids’ Cancer & A Giveaway!
For me, there is little worse than being sick over the holidays – especially baking holidays like Thanksgiving. I started feeling like I was coming down with something the day before Thanksgiving, and by the weekend I was completely down and out with Bronchitis. Needless to say, I didn’t do nearly the amount of baking I wanted to over the holiday – and I certainly didn’t eat as much as I wanted to – although I suppose maybe that’s a good thing. Now that I’m feeling…
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Neapolitan Layer Cake with Strawberry Swiss Meringue Buttercream
How fun is this cake? If you’ve been reading my blog, back in February I talked about my sister and her trouble making a decision for her birthday treat. She ended up choosing the Key Lime Cupcakes which turned out to be a fabulous decision because they were wonderful. This was the contender, the cake that made her decision so difficult that week. I knew I had to make this one, but needed the perfect excuse because it’s so time consuming. We celebrated Easter at…
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White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
My family and I took a quick little road-trip this week. It’s the week before my oldest daughter starts school, so we took advantage of the gorgeous and unseasonably mild weather and hit the road. I’ll post more about our trip this weekend in my Out and About Series, but we had a really, really good time. And even better – we were only in the car for about three hours at a time! Rather than relying on fast-food or gas station snacks along…
