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So you need a side to go with your Baked Potato Soup? This Beer-Cheese Bread was awesome with it. My mom and I loved this bread. This is definitely the best bread that I have ever made at home. I will be making this all fall to go with our soup and chili. 
Basic Beer-Cheese Bread

Ingredients:
1 tablespoon [...]

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The cold weather has arrived in Columbus, and it sucks! I don’t know how I am going to survive being trapped in the house with an almost two-year-old all winter long. We spent so much time outside this past summer and fall, being inside all the time is a shock. But that’s a topic for [...]

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As a single mom, I am always watching my money. I spent this past weekend winterizing my house with my mom (or I should say, my mom winterized my house while I tried to learn how to shrink wrap windows and kept messing up the windows so then she had to go back and fix them – [...]

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More fall recipes…
I love fall and fall recipes. I love apples and pumpkins, and so does my daughter.
So here is another fall recipe. It’s easy, healthy, the munchkin loves it, and uses my favorite kitchen appliance – the crock pot. (OK, the coffee part is actually my favorite, but you don’t cook with the coffee [...]

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I’m a lazy cook. I don’t like complicated recipes. I don’t like to bake because you have to be precise. I like simple recipes.
I also like healthy recipes too. I try not to give my daughter store-baked cookies and cupcakes, because I don’t know what is in them.
This fall, I wanted to make some cookies for [...]

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On Saturday, October 4, the North Market will be hosting its Harvest Festival.
The Harvest Festival is free and has activities such as pumpkin pie, apple pie, and pumpkin bread contests; free cookies and apples for kids; face painting; crafts; and music. 
If you haven’t bought any local apples, pumpkins, squash or cider this fall, the Farmers’ Market [...]

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Once my daughter was born, I began to think a lot more about food. I had no idea what would be best for her to eat.
So, I starting reading a lot of books about food. Here is a list of my favorite food books:
What to Eat and Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition, and Health by [...]

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I love fall and fall recipes. I have so many recipes that I only make this time of year.
This is one of my favorite apple recipes. It’s similar to apple crisp, but the topping is more like a cookie topping instead of an oatmeal topping. It’s not the healthiest recipe (but it is so yummy), [...]

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I do a lot of my grocery shopping at Whole Foods and I’m always looking for ways to reduce our grocery bill without sacrificing quality.
Last time I was at Whole Foods, the nice guy who bagged my groceries put the store’s flyer, “The Whole Deal,” in my bag.
I had never seen the flyer at the store [...]

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Growing up in Northeast Ohio, fall meant Mapleside Farms and their apple cider. I remember going there with my mom, dad, and sister when I was younger, and now I’m taking my little girl there. I’m excited to pass this tradition onto my daughter.
Mapleside is an apple orchard in Brunswick. In the fall, they sell about [...]

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