Day 21: 24 Days of Green Christmas – Caramels as Edible Gifts

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I was going to include this Apple Cider Caramels recipe in last weekend’s baking post but I didn’t get a chance to take photos. And good thing I rushed to take these today because they were being gobbled up preeeet…ty fast. I usually make Chocolate Butterscotch Peanut Toffee as holiday gifts. But I wanted to try something different this year for an edible gift. And being that there’s apple cider (fruit) [...]

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Day 18: 24 Days of Green Christmas – Easy as a Sweet Potato Pie

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I wish life was as easy as a pie…..a sweet potate pie, to be specific. But life is not that simple but this pie is. And since we are baking this weekend, I wanted to share this adapted recipe from Joy the Baker. I didn’t want to use canned evaporated milk so I substituted with whipping cream and adjusted the sugar content. And you can use conventional sweet potatoes, unlike [...]

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Day 17: 24 Days of Green Christmas – NY Times Chocolate Chip Cookies

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I was looking for a recipe on the internet. And you know how that goes. I meander through various food blogs, drool and gawk at scrumptious food photos. Then, from there, I click the links on the blog to ‘other’ food blogs and pretty soon, I forget what recipe I was looking for in the first place. But I end up with a newly found delectable treat and I am [...]

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Day 14: 24 Days of Green Christmas – Edible Gift Ideas

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Before I talk about my favorite type of gifts to receive, give – food – I have to tell you about an interesting phenomenon that’s been happening on my blog for about ten days…..no, it’s not the “24 Days of Green Christmas Crafts”…although it is a phenomenal series! Beginning of December, Fox News published an article titled, “7 foods you should never eat” from Prevention magazine – an article I posted [...]

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The Best Peach Cobbler Recipe

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If you are a peach, you live a lonely life. You can’t hug or touch your boyfriend or girlfriend. You can’t be on the top or on the bottom…(take your mind out of the gutter.) You have to sit alone, away from your buddies. Otherwise, you get bruised, mushy, soft, and will face a sudden death. It’s true. I didn’t know it at first, so I piled them in a [...]

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Watermelon Granita Recipe and Weekend Round Up

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Is it hot enough for ya? It is going to be HOT HOT HOT in NY today and tomorrow. I’m keeping myself low key and sewing a quilt for a friend’s daughter who’s leaving for college. Yeah, not exactly what I want to think about -  a blanket – but after making my son’s quilt when he went to college, I thought this would be a cool gift to give [...]

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Apple Hill Cake

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I don’t think I posted a recipe on ecokaren before. But I wanted to share this recipe with you because I just made this cake today with Honey Crisp apples that my mom gave us and it was goodelicious – a word my daughter made up. We couldn’t possibly eat all these apples so I decided to make this cake and “use up” some apples. (I ended up using only [...]

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