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Desserts

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

May 1, 2010

A few weeks ago, on a hot and sunny day, a few of my friends hosted a barbecue. To my delight and surprise, one of them made this. And I ate it like this. Strawberry rhubarb pie is one of my favorite summer comforts. You can find the recipe for this pie here at Smitten [...]

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Praline Bundt Cake with Praline Icing

April 17, 2010

A few months back, my boyfriend’s mother sent him back up to D.C. with this sweet baby. Drroooooooool. Needless to say it didn’t last long in our apartment. I ate praline cake for breakfast, snack and dessert most days. I have a nasty morning cake habit. I probably at least should have crumbled it in [...]

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Chocolate thumbprint cookies

January 30, 2010

Over the holidays I found this easy cookie recipe in Cooking Light magazine. I was looking for a new twist on the traditional thumbprint and thought hazelnut and cocoa sounded like the perfect way to go. The cookies were painfully simple to make and only required a few, simple ingredients. An added bonus is that [...]

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When It Snows..

December 7, 2009

This weekend we enjoyed our first snow here in Arlington, VA. The view from our outside window was just magical, especially since I didn’t have to travel in it When it snows, I definitely feel like baking and it was the perfect lazy afternoon to do so. I was once again craving an apple dessert [...]

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Apple Crumble

December 2, 2009

Now that the season of beautiful apples is coming to a close, I thought I would post one of my favorite apple desserts. While I adore apple pie, apple cake, and many other apple creations, apple crisp or in this case, crumble, tops the list. While I’m not a huge dessert person and definitely don’t [...]

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Sweet Potato Pie

November 23, 2009

This time of year, when we get overloaded with all things pumpkin (pumpkin soup, pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, pumpkin butter, pumpkin oats), let’s not forget about our friend the sweet potato. Sure, we all know and love the celebrated sweet potato casserole, but the sweet potato can do so much more! She is much sweeter [...]

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Georgetown Cupcake and Jennifer’s 30th Bday!

November 17, 2009

Omg ya’ll. I’m actually 30, today. Can you believe it? To help me celebrate the big 3-0h no! my boyfriend organized a petite fete at his house with a champagne toast to accompany these sugar babies from Georgetown Cupcake. We feasted on a dozen cupcakes-pumpkin spice, chocolate, berry, vanilla, and red velvet. These cupcakes = [...]

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Happy Birthday Keep It Simple Foods!

November 12, 2009

November is Keep It Simple Foods’ birthday month and this month we are celebrating 1 year of blogging! Can you believe a year has already gone by? I can’t. Jessica and I want to thank all of our readers, old and new, who have loyally kept up with us over the past year. Thank you [...]

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Blueberry Molasses Cake

September 10, 2009

A few weeks ago, I spotted Heidi’s old-fashioned blueberry cake and decided right away that I had to make it. I’m pretty much a sucker for any recipe with the title “old fashioned” and I loved that it used blueberries and a small amount of natural molasses to sweeten the cake, rather than several cups [...]

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Ice Cream with a CRUNCH!

August 19, 2009

I love eating ice cream in the summer time. Oh, who am I kidding, I love eating ice cream anytime, any day, any season. But, it’s extra good to eat something cold and creamy when it’s 90 degrees outside. When eating ice cream, I like to have a gigantic bowl, but, as we all know, [...]

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