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Treats

Fiesta Favorite

June 11, 2010

Guacamole is an essential summer dish, and HCG’s favorite guacamole recipe comes to us courtesy of some random person, Bob Cody, on All Recipes (thanks, Bob).  This guac recipe is always a hit at events and has lots of fans on All Recipes – it is the 16th most popular recipe on the site which [...]

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Bargain Blizzards!

April 23, 2010

Many thanks are owed to my mom for alerting me of this big news (there must be some malfunction in my Blizzard Fan Club e-mail subscription since I didn’t get a notification about this): In honor of 25 years of Dairy Queen’s delicious Blizzard treat, our much loved (but once hated) soft serve ice cream [...]

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It’s Girl Scout Gina Time

January 27, 2010

Oh no.  They’re back.
It’s with mixed emotions that I welcome Girl Scout thin mint cookies back into my life.  Certain words and phrases come to mind when I think of these treasured treats: delight.  Compulsion.  Lack of self control.
Thin mints and I have a long, storied history together.  While I was in college and law [...]

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Chili con MR

January 14, 2010

Guess what?  It’s pretty hard to take or find a non-disgusting photo of chili.  As you can imagine, the dish does not photograph well.  I chose to display clean, non-gross chili peppers instead.
Unbelievably, I never ate chili until nearly one year ago this month when MR made a delicious version for a cozy winter game [...]

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Sugar Sugar Everywhere

November 6, 2009

Over the past two weeks, I baked nearly 500 sugar cookies.  Most of the cookies were for my good friend KB’s wedding favors (baked with assistance from CF), and the rest were for Halloween.  As you can imagine, the process was rather laborious, and I’d prefer not to see another sugar cookie for several months [...]

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Mini Martha

October 20, 2009

I spent nearly 6 hours on Sunday surrounded by sugar cookie dough and cutouts of bats, pumpkins and leaves.  It felt good to bake, but it was a trying afternoon.  At times, I was covered in flour and my legs were sick of standing (that may sound lazy, but I’ve been working out very hard [...]

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