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I am a “domestic engineer” as they called it in the late ’70s when my mom stayed at home with me. Call me housewife, call me stay-at-home mom, call me tired.

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Archive for December, 2007

Braiding the Bread

Dec 12th, 2007 by CEO | 0

My husband’s family has a traditional Christmas breakfast, which is not the traditional breakfast I grew up with. In the good old fashioned Southern way, we pigged out on biscuits, gravy, eggs, bacon, ham, sausage and the list goes on. But I have come to love the Helma bread, cranberry bread and Cream of [...]

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Pineapple Pretzel Salad

Dec 11th, 2007 by CEO | 1

I always say I need to rename this recipe because it in no way, even remotely, resembles a salad. I bring it to nearly every church function and people have come to know it by this name, so Pineapple Pretzel Salad it shall remain.
Ingredients
1 cup sugar
2 cups pretzels; crushed
2 sticks butter; softened
12 ounces whip cream
12 [...]

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Fig-Filled Moons

Dec 5th, 2007 by CEO | 0

When the December issue of Good Housekeeping claimed that one dough could make 12 different cookies, I was interested. I had a grand vision of trying each of them by Christmas. I was going to start with one or two for our women’s ministry Christmas party a couple of days ago. I bought the ingredients [...]

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