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Dessert

Market to Table: Cherry Pie

June 13, 2010

I would like to take you readers on a trip back into Shaw Girl’s past, specifically to the year 1990.  I was a sophomore in high school, still rocking very high hair and questionable fashion choices.  I had a major crush on one Jason Perry, but my mother wouldn’t let me go out on a [...]

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Market to Table: Strawberry Layer Cake

May 17, 2010

On Sunday evening, at around 5:13 pm, I had a frosting related nervous breakdown.  This breakdown involved near tears, a wayward icing knife and a big ol’ mixing bowl of butter cream.  How did I come to such a lowly state? Let’s start from the beginning (times are an approximation…it was all a haze):

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Roasted Butternut Squash Cheesecake

November 18, 2009

Leave it to me to run straight to dessert in my quest for a great Thanksgiving meal. I wanted to try a different take on dessert but still wanted it to celebrate the Fall season. After eating my fair share of roasted butternut squash the last few weeks, a light bulb went off in my [...]

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Heath Bar Cookies & Bake Sale Reminder!

October 30, 2009

These look tasty, don’t they? Sugar cookies with bits of Heath candy bars mixed in make for a fantastic treat.  Wouldn’t you love to have some this weekend? Well, my dear friends, you can have them! These cookies, along with my coconut almond chocolate macaroons, are my contribution to the DC Food Bloggers Spooktacular Bake [...]

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Pumpkin Shortbread Cookies

October 5, 2009

This is the start of my favorite time of year.  From October through Christmas, I’m that giddy, goofy annoyingly cheerful person everyone hates (I guess I should apologize upfront for all the merriment and good cheer that will be unleashed…mostly to the Boy since he has to live with me).  While I enjoy Spring too [...]

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