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Peach-Apricot Jam

Peach-Apricot Jam is one of my all-time favorite jams of the summer.

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A Week of Mom’s Recipes

To honor my mom for Mother’s Day, I am going to raid her recipe box every day this week and find some of her favorites. Let’s start with her $10,000 soup!

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A Very Special Pan for Mardi Gras

A prize-winning Creole Spaghetti Sauce served in a very, very special pan for Mardi Gras.

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Best of Show Blueberry Pie

Read on to see my grandmother’s prize-winning blueberry pie recipe! It’s the best!

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The Good Breakfast Book

Bread Pudding for Breakfast? That and more from this great cookbook! My friend Mary from Arizona sent it along with many others.

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Country Fair Cookbook

It’s State Fair time all over the country! Come and meet an incredible winner from my home state of Illinois.

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Ann Marie’s Classic Collection

My reader Ann Marie from Washington sent two boxes of all the Pillsbury Classic Cookbook Collections, complete with the special binders to hold them.

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Prizewinning Cook and Steelers Fan, Pat Harmon

Pat Harmon is a superstar in the cooking contest world. Look at some of her prize-winning recipes!

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