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Blueberries are everywhere and I really just cannot stop making things with them. I have been eating them almost at every meal. They remind me of my childhood and are so delicious they seem like they’re not possibly good for you, but …

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If you guys know me in real life (or probably if you just know me from this blog actually) you know that I love cast iron in all forms. I use my cast iron to cook pretty much everything, rarely …

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Chickens, it’s cold in Chicago. And will be, for several months. Enjoy that sunshine if you’ve got it. Over here, when things are cold and gray, we warm up with comfort food. This time it was in the form of …

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We can’t stop sharing cookies with you. We’re sorry, but not that sorry, because it’s the Christmas season which means cookies. It’s the one time a year that making four kinds of cookies in one weekend isn’t considered crazy….right?! These …

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This year, GMS participated in our first Food Blogger Cookie Swap. This is the swap’s fourth year running, and it is a partnership for Cookies for Kids’ Cancer, which means we’re raising money to support an amazing cause and we’re getting …

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We eat this bread in our cars. We eat this bread at our desks. We stress-eat this bread. And we offer it wrapped in bits of foil to friends visiting from far away places. Needless to say, this recipe is …

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If you’re not into our baklava from yesterday, or maybe there is a nut allergy at your Thanksgiving, you should give crisp a try. Crisp is easy. It’s forgiving. It has fruit, even! We love apple crisp, but something about …

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Hey y’all! Jennie and Corelyn are off adventuring on the east coast for Jennie’s wedding. While they’re gone, please enjoy some guest posts from our favorite bloggers. This post is from our friend Jessie, of Cake Spy, who we met …

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As you know, we made pulled pork this weekend, and naturally we needed some baked beans to go along with our sandwiches for the perfect Saturday meal. We wanted to make the beans from dried beans, but we weren’t too keen …

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After years of searching Los Angeles in vain for a decent barbecue pork sandwich, we finally decided the only solution was to make one ourselves. Like most people born in the Southeast, I am very opinionated about my barbecue. I …

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