This is a delicious dessert to bring to family gatherings, or special get togethers. It goes together quickly, with easy to find ingredients, and can even be made more diet friendly by using sugar free pudding & light whipped topping.

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This an easy recipe for a very delicious, melt in your mouth sugar cookie. I like to use my "cookie stamps" I've collected through the years, but the bottom of a glass works just as well. We also like to use colored sugars to fit in with whatever season or holiday happens to be the occasion for cookies. I found this recipe years ago in a cookbook by Mary Beth Roe, a show hostess on QVC. Both of her cookbooks have wonderful recipes, and harken back to a simplier time and wonderful family meals and treats!

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This has all the taste, and texture of an old time custard pie, but with a couple of new techniques. A dear co-worker passed along this wonderful recipe from someone in her church group. It has wonderful depth of flavor, and will disappear within moments!

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This hash brown casserole can be part of breakfast, brunch or anytime of the day. Using the frozen hash brown potatoes makes it all quick and easy. The beef broth and seasonings give it a more hearty punch of flavor than the usual hash brown casserole.

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This is the perfect coleslaw blend to top a pulled pork or fish sandwich, and a delicious standin for a famous fastfood restaurant coleslaw. And, noone will suspect you've made adjustments to a familiar restaurant recipe to make it lighter and more healthy! It is just juicy enough, and using the anglehair cabbage sold in most grocery store produce departments makes it quick and very easy! You'll never buy premade coleslaw again!

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This dessert started my love affair with all things pumpkin, and still is a favorite over traditional pumpkin pie. It starts with a cake mix, and during the holidays I like shortcuts wherever I can find them. If you like Paula Deen's ooey gooey pumpkin cake, try this one too!

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This is my adapted lemon version of a Cake Mix Doctor's blueberry muffin cake to please my lemon loving granddaughters for a brunch get together. I have some wierd aversion to muffin making, so I love this cake version that is easier to get into the oven, and yet, gives the same delicious result.

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This started out as something called "Downeast Maine Pumpkin Bread" but ended up being a healthy, modified version that has all the taste of the original....maybe more! It is lighter than most breads, and could be baked as a healthy version cake!

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Splenda Brown Sugar blend is the best of both worlds. It reduces the sugar grams, but retains a flavor that doesn't scream chemicals...it just tastes like a wonderful fall apple dessert! Once the apples are prepped, the rest is so quick & easy!

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German Goulash soup has hearty flavors, and is perfect as the weather turns cool. Simple ingredients, and simple preparation make this a go to recipe for anyone, especially when the weather is cooler.

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Sweet, but offset with some apple cider vinegar, this is a pasta salad that you don't have to worry about having outside in the warm summer months, or sitting on a buffet table at an open house for hours!

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One of the best breakfast of brunch offerings to come out of the south! Sausage, or Sawmill Gravy is delicious over hot biscuits, and we like a "mess" of scrambled eggs in the same bowl, mixed into the gravy. You eat yours however you want, but don't miss trying this recipe from Paula Deen's book "It Ain't All about the Cookin"


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It's almost Fall, and time for chilli! This is an adaption of a Rachael Ray chili recipe for a vegetarian chili. It is not a mild chili, so if you are sensitive to heat, tone down, or eliminate some of the hot sauce, or peppers. It is great with sour cream and cheese, if you are not a "vegan" type vegetarian, or you could substitute some of the vegan "sour cream" or "cheddar cheese" products! I love this as a left over with scrambled eggs, rolled up in a whole wheat tortilla!

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This is a fast, easy Vegan dish that would be a great treat on a picnic or barbeque table. No need to soak the beans or plan ahead, because you just use 2 cans of small white beans! NUM

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This cake was featured in Better Homes and Gardens in the 1960's, and was identified as the cake Abraham Lincoln's mother made for him, and it was his favorite. It is my favorite birthday cake, and the recipe still stands the test of time.

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