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Mom's recipe box

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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London, England - June 13, 2015: Queen Elizabeth II in an open carriage with Prince Philip for trooping the colour 2015 to mark the Queens official birthday, London, UK

Happy Birthday to Queen Elizabeth (and me!)

Happy Birthday to Her Majesty and me on our shared birthday!

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Dancin’ Around the Kitchen

Cookie-baking makes me happy.  It makes me even happier to listen to happy music while baking. 

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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 Language of Cooking

Happy Birthday today to our cousin Leena in Finland! Leena taught me that cooking has no language barrier. The common ingredient is love.

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Ten Years of The Culinary Cellar

The Culinary Cellar is still here after ten years, thanks to you my readers, who also love cookbooks and cooking along with me.

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Ronald McDonald House New York City

Proceeds from this cookbook go to The Ronald McDonald House in New York City to help support families with children facing a cancer diagnosis.

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The Best Fried Chicken in Mississippi

Did I say the best fried chicken in Mississippi? How about the best in the whole country? I mean, world…

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