Chicken & Herb Dumplings:

1 chicken (2 ½ to 3-lbs), cut up ~ about eight to twelve pieces of assorted legs/thighs/drumsticks/breasts/wings (whichever cut you like best)
1 tsp salt.
¼ to ½ teaspoon pepper
2 whole cloves
8 to 10 small white onions
1 clove garlic, minced
¼ tsp. powdered marjoram
¼ tsp. powdered thyme
1 bay leaf
½ cup dry white wine
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Been on a tasting spree of new flavours / limited editions and foods I haven't tried before ( Read more... )

Vanishing Oatmeal Chip Bars

Ingredients½ cup (1 stick) plus 6 tbsp butter, softened ( Read more... )

SPICED CRANBERRY CIDER

2 quarts apple cider
1 1/2 quarts cranberry cocktail
1/4 cup brown sugar (packed)
4 three-inch cinnamon sticks
1 1/2 teaspoons whole cloves
1 lemon, thinly slicedcombine all ingredients in large kettle ( Read more... )

There are some "special edition" flavours and "Holiday" foods that I like and can't get enough of while they're around ( Read more... )

EASY BAKE BRUNCHYou will need ( Read more... )

I had a blast on the Forth-of-July ( Read more... )

Well, the Cheesecake Lemon bars turned out good.  I thought they were just okay - My family enjoyed them ( Read more... )

Had a Hot Lemon Toddy for the first time yesterday ( Read more... )

I love Christmas.
Most of it - don't like how 'commercial' (all about the money - buying/selling, focusing on Santa and his gifts to 'all the good boys and girls', the shopping spree and fighting for the last item on the shelves, the extravagant gifts and kids demanding 'me, mine, myself') Christmas has become.

*pauses*
May have to rethink the ( Read more... )