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Fancy Lunch + Cookie Dinner

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on April 3, 2011

in Baking, dessert, friends, photography

I know I don’t usually blog about lunches, since, you know, this blog is called “What’s for Dinner?” and all, but yesterday’s lunch was definitely “blog-worthy”. I do have to rewind a bit. When I was in college, I was in a sorority. I met some of the most amazing women during my time there, [...]

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Sprinkleidescope

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on March 6, 2011

in Baking, dessert

I threw together a batch of caramel the other day. I didn’t really know what I was doing, or what I would do with said caramel, but I just knew I had to use up the half cup of heavy cream that was taking up space in my fridge, and doing the culinary equivalent of [...]

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My Rainbows

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on January 30, 2011

in Baking, dessert, friends

There are few things prettier in this world than a rainbow. I was always that kid in elementary school who had to hoard one of each of the “rainbow colors” so that I could write each letter on my worksheet a different color. The margins of my assignments often had little cloud-capped rainbows in them, [...]

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Macarooning

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on January 16, 2011

in Baking, dessert, family, friends

I’m humbled and grateful for all of your kind words and condolences over the last week. It’s been, by far, the most difficult situation I’ve ever been through, and each comment and Facebook message would raise my spirits just a little bit. The healing has only just begun, and all of your support has been [...]

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The Latke Princess

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on December 7, 2010

in family, family recipe, friends, vegetables, vegetarian

Last year for Hanukkah, Adam and I headed out to my mom’s house, and I told you all about how she’s the latke queen. This year, instead of heading to my mom’s house for Hanukkah, we went instead to a wonderful Hanukkah party hosted by Adam’s mom and stepdad in Northwest Indiana and I was [...]

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Pink and Sparkly!

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on April 21, 2010

in Baking, simple recipe, vegetarian

I’ve always held a spot in my heart for meringues. Apparently, when I was a little girl, we’d go to Baker’s Square (then called Poppin’ Fresh) for pie, and I’d always want the “Lemon Syringe” pie… have I mentioned that I was a special child? My mom would make lemon meringue pie, and until one [...]

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