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adult beverages

Inside-Out Black Forest Cake

January 8, 2010
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No dinner party–even one with a spectacular pork loin as the main–is complete without a really fantastic dessert. Yeah, I know I don’t need much of an excuse to reach into my *fancy* dessert file, but I wanted to do something really special for new years. Remember my favorite recipe source this holiday season, Martha’s [...]

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Christmas Bread Pudding

December 29, 2009
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In my last post, I lamented a holiday on the road where folks beyond the first stop on a four day road trip would not receive the pleasure of an elaborate Ratskellar holiday dessert. But luckily for the folks at the first stop, there was a fancy dessert that traveled. And it traveled well. No, [...]

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Epcot International Food and Wine Festival: Part 2, The Wine

October 20, 2009
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So where did we leave off talking about the Epcot International Food and Wine Festival last week? Oh yeah, with the wine! And oh what a wine selection it was. Four or five wines, paired with the food, in each and every country! I didn’t even realize that some of these countries had their own [...]

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Clipper City Beer and Bacon Festival

September 20, 2009
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On Saturday, we were lucky enough to have tickets to the Clipper City Beer and Bacon Festival. When I first got the email about Beer and Bacon and sent it around to see if anyone would be interested in going, the response was overwhelming–”BEER and BACON?! We’ve got to do that!” Who knew that behind [...]

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Peaches in White Wine

September 18, 2009
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Be prepared to drop everything and RUN (yes I said RUN) to your local farmer’s market or grocery store. Why are you running? Because peach season is almost over and you don’t want to wait a whole 10 months to make this recipe! I take full responsibility for not sharing this earlier–i have known about [...]

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Happy Birthday Tony G! Stout, Whiskey and Bailey’s Cupcakes

September 15, 2009
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So I didn’t know it until this year, but it turns out I know a lot of people with September 13th birthdays. Like a scary number of people. Weird, huh? But this year there was only one who was lucky enough to get a homemade, you pick it, fresh from the 990 square kitchen birthday [...]

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