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2 pounds sour cherries
4 cups water
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
6 whole cloves
1 small cinnamon ...
crust adapted from here
yield: 16 servings
Ingredients:
7 lbs apples (3 1/2 lbs tart apples, 3 1/2 ...
(I got this recipe in an on-line recipe exchange, so I don’t actually know who Nicole is, but her ...
for the blood orange syrup:
1 cup blood orange juice (about 6 oranges)
1/4 cup granulated sugar
for ...
3 cups chopped yellow onions (2 large onions)
2 tablespoons good olive oil
2 teaspoons kosher salt
Juice from 2 large POM Wonderful Pomegranate*, or 1/2 cup POM Wonderful 100% Pomegranate Juice
1/2 ...
Last week, I had two major disappointments. I did not win the ticket lottery to attend Michael ...
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Here we go again.
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Here are some ...
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