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This blog celebrates good eats and shares ideas about home and family and living life to the fullest! If you are a go-getter or an inspiration gatherer, a beginner or a willing to learn one more thing expert — come along as I learn, do and share.

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Busy Monday 659 Another Busy Monday anniversary!  It was a cold and snowy night (recurring theme in my life!)   fourteen years ago, when I decided it was time to learn something new.  A...
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Scottsdale Potatoes - Hashbrown potato casserole  My  mother discovered these creamy, cheesy potatoes while visiting family in Arizona.  Apparently that’s why they are called Scottsdale Potatoes!  Here in Ohio, they are known as Cheesy Potatoes or...
28.01.2025 01:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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White Pizza I zipped through a food and restaurant supply store, a place not on my usual circuit.  A tractor beam locked on my cart and drew me right to the sample...
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How to puree a pumpkin This big pumpkin has been on our front porch since early October.  Time to make the change to Christmas decor so it had to go.   Bytes has been the master...
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Cinnamon Apple Baked Brie The first time I tasted this, I couldn’t stop saying Oh my gosh!  This is so GOOD, this is SOOO good.  Everyone laughed at me.  Then they scooped out some...
28.01.2025 01:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Candy Corn Fudge Candy Corn Fudge . . .   Just another pretty fudge. Candy Corn Fudge . . . . Just because I can. The coloring I used was Wilton’s gel and to...
28.01.2025 01:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How to make a pompom spider for Halloween Halloween spooky but cute!  These spiders are the kind you won't mind having in your house come fall!  They are made from yarn and pipecleaners so are inexpensive.  And they...
28.01.2025 01:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pork roast, sweet potatoes and fried apples Pork loin roast, fried apples and sweet potatoes – a classic dinner.  It is very simple, calling for only basic cooking skills, but looks fantastic and like you spent hours...
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Superhero Cheeseburger Soup "This is what makes superheroes fly” said the middle schooler as he presented his emptied bowl for a refill.  I took it as a high compliment! This soup is exquisitely...
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Florentine Quiche Quiche is one of those really cool, super versatile formula recipes.  Start with a pie crust in 9 inch shallow pan.  Whisk the egg and milk mixture together with seasonings...
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Sunny Broccoli Salad This great recipe for Broccoli Bacon Salad comes from a wonderful cook in Missouri.  I led a group of volunteers, 10 adults and 21 teens,  to Ste. Genevieve, Missouri where...
28.01.2025 00:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Evacuate your home – 9 checklists to help - A Pinch of Joy We all need to be prepared to evacuate at any time. Making preparations ahead of time will make things easier during the disaster and will help you get back to your life more quickly afterwards. Do it...

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14.01.2025 07:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Busy Monday 650 - A Pinch of Joy Nate the Great came to visit yesterday. He'll be here until after New Years while his mom catches up on work projects. Just came in from a long walk -- long as in spaced out. He was a full block full steam ahead! We had a discussion at lunch about the French Revolution. We actually
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Busy Monday 649 - A Pinch of Joy Snow on the ground and below freezing temperatures -- back to the normal weather for this spot on the map. Flowers didn't make it to Christmas. Still a record for how long they continued blooming! We put up the outdoor lights this past week. When we first moved here, we were the only ones on
15.12.2024 21:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Loaded Sheet Pan Nachos, The Party In a Pan - A Pinch of Joy In our family, the New Year's Junk Food Banquet is a tradition. We get together to eat all the things we haven't touched all year. Potato chips. Candy. Ooey gooey stuff. Sweet stuff. We drink sodas an...

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15.12.2024 08:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sweet and Savory Nuts [caption id="attachment_35727" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Sweet and savory mixed nuts are sure to be a hit at your next holiday party!  Sweetened with maple syrup and brown sugar in butter, add...
14.12.2024 22:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Eggnog Sandwich Cookies - A Pinch of Joy Eggnog Sandwich Cookies are a unique holiday treat. The nutmeg and ginger sugar topping, the soft cookie, the creamy filling -- all the eggnog flavors in your hand. The dough is soft and a little stic...

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14.12.2024 07:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pineapple Bacon Bites - A Pinch of Joy A Mad Men era scene pops up in my mind when I look at this appetizer recipe for Pineapple Bacon Bites. I picture the high heeled, full skirted, perfectly coiffed hostess fingering her pearls as she wa...

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Grinch Kabobs - A Pinch of Joy Grapes, bananas and strawberries -- oh my! One look and everyone will know they were Grinch inspired. These are so cute and colorful, they will make any party fun! They are perfect for kid events and ...

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10.12.2024 22:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Busy Monday 648 Two nights of light frost took the flowers -- but the plants are still green!   Will they make it to Christmas?   In other news -- A Pinch of Joy has...
08.12.2024 17:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's kind of hard to find something to post since everything we have that is relevant to the Season was posted in an automation gone wrong event.😂

07.12.2024 03:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Potato Chip Clusters - A Pinch of Joy It doesn't get much easier than this. Salty, sweet, crisp and melty. Potato Chip Clusters go together really quickly. The biggest amount of time is spent waiting for them to set up. And you can speed that up by placing the parchment lined cookie sheet in the refrigerator or freezer for about 20 minutes. Use
04.12.2024 08:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Italian Meatball Soup A healthy,  full flavored,  main dish soup, Italian Meatball Soup is so quick and easy that it is ready to eat in thirty minutes! Cannellini beans (aka white kidney beans)...
04.12.2024 08:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Creamy Wild Rice and Chicken Bake - A Pinch of Joy Creamy Wild Rice and Chicken Bake is delicious, filling comfort food. It is easy to assemble in about 5 minutes. Make the rice mixture in the morning to refrigerate with the thawed chicken in a separate bag. The minute you walk in the door, put the chicken on top of the rice, add the slivered
04.12.2024 08:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cream Cheese Banana Bread Banana Bread becomes a necessity around here once in a while when the bananas don’t get eaten as quickly as predicted in the grocery store.  It’s a classic supply and...
04.12.2024 08:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Crunchy Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars Valentine's Day has a few traditions around our house.  Wheels comes up with beautiful heartfelt cards that make me cry.   And sometimes the perfect -- although quite unexpected -- gift.   ...
04.12.2024 08:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Roja Chicken Enchiladas Roja Chicken Enchiladas take their name from the red enchilada sauce used over top the filled tortillas.  If it were green enchilada sauce, they would be verde enchiladas.  Everybody else...
04.12.2024 08:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cheesy Egg and Sausage Bake - A Pinch of Joy Hearty, filling and delicious, great for a busy day breakfast, this dish is low carb and a good source of protein. It’s the perfect solution for what to feed a group for breakfast. Pop it in the oven, prepare coffee, add bakery cinnamon rolls (or your own made ahead) and/or slices of melon and you
04.12.2024 08:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Loaded Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake with Chocolate Ganache - A Pinch of Joy Meet the birthday Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake with Chocolate Ganache! ‘Tis birthday season at our house. Bytes has a birthday at the end of March and Bytes Big Brother (the short one) has his birthday in the first half of April. They had the same due date, too – neither one was on time!
04.12.2024 08:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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