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Recipes (recettes)

Knitting and Apple pie recipe

October 16, 2008

I am knitting a new scarf for my four year old.  When I am finished knitting the scarf I will buy some nice colorful buttons to decorate it.  
Her best color is blue because of her blonde hair and light blue eyes.

Apple pie with hearts on it as requested by the girls.  I cut out [...]

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Pumpkin Love

October 4, 2008

I love pumpkin pie!
Since living in Europe, I have had to learn to make pumpkin pie completely from scratch. There are no cans of pumpkin that I can pick up from the grocery.
In a post I made last year you can read how to bake pumpkin halves and then scoop out the purée with [...]

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Cookie kind of day

August 20, 2008

We had been having some rain. So, I decided it was a cookie kind of day. I used a Chocolate Chip cookie recipe I found online to make a rainy day a little bit brighter.
It worked!
Tip: We didn’t have chocolate chips so I just chopped a bar of baking chocolate into small [...]

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Toétché recipe

April 6, 2008

Toétché is a speciality of the Jura canton of Switzerland. It is a cake but it is not sweet. There is no sugar called for in the recipe. However, it is very good.
In the past, we have bought half of a large toétché at the bakery for quatre heure (snack). One [...]

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Ultimate brownie recipe (recette)

October 26, 2007

Melting the butter and chocolate on low heat. The apartment smelled like a big slice of chocolate heaven.

Sweet Bear was the official mixer of all the ingredients. She had fun drizzling the chocolate over the flour making pictures.

The finished product.  I will sprinkle powdered sugar over them at the school when I am [...]

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