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holiday party foods

New Years Eve 2012

January 1, 2012
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For the third year running, we hosted a dinner party with Eileen and Carlos to ring in the New Year. I love ringing in the new year with a dinner party. We have great food (yes we have to make it ourselves, but it’s way better than we would get out somewhere), great company, and [...]

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Soft and Chewy Chocolate Mint Cookies

December 22, 2011

So maybe I’m on a chocolate mint kick this year. Okay, who am I kidding, I’ve been on a chocolate mint kick my entire life. I blame it on my dad. When I was a kid, we used to get a peppermint patty every time we went to the gas station. We drove around A [...]

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Chocolate Peppermint Crunch Bark

December 19, 2011
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This weekend was the seventh edition of the Ratskellar Holiday Party, our big annual celebration of the holidays, good cheer, and friends. It’s hard to believe that we’ve lived in this house long enough to have SEVEN holiday parties here. How did that happen? It feels like yesterday that we–committed uptown Baltimore people–moved to Southeast. [...]

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Philadelphia Style Vanilla Ice Cream

July 8, 2011
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This is the story of our perfect Fourth of July dessert. Or rather, it’s almost a non-story. Shockingly, I didn’t put a ton of time or energy into planning every single meal for the Fourth weekend beforehand. Yeah, I’m usually sort of a planner. But since we had 11 house guests at the beach this [...]

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Margarita Bars

June 3, 2011

Hello Summer! Here on the east coast, it seems that someone turned on the blast furnace just in time for labor day weekend. And forgot to turn it off again. Not even the shore was immune, as I found out during my very hot 5 Miler! Three 95+ degree days in a row does not [...]

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Whole Wheat Brownies

February 4, 2011
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Will you forgive me for sharing 2 brownie recipes in a year that is barely 2 months old? Well, I guess you’ll have to, or you’ll have to click away. I stumbled on this recipe completely by accident. Last fall–I think it was actually after the Veterans Day 10K–I was in the mood for something [...]

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Snickerdoodles

December 20, 2010
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Twas the week before Christmas and all through the house… Pandora was playing Christmas music–it must be cookie baking time! This year, thanks to our weekend in Florida, my annual cookiepalooza in preparation for the Ratskellar Christmas Party was seriously condensed. To one day. Yikes! Somehow I survived, and at the end of the day [...]

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Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies

December 6, 2010
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After a week and a half on the road I was so happy to be home this weekend. A weekend of Christmas decorating and cooking was definitely in order! Noel was nice enough to come out and visit me one night while I was in West Virginia, so I wanted to do something nice for [...]

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