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Cool Weather Recipe That’s Great with Food Allergies
When you have food allergies, you spend a significant amount of time and energy altering recipes. Many of you know that I am crazy-intolerant of gluten. Cutting it out of my life changed everything for me health-wise. There are some unexpected … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Recipes
Tagged food allergies, gluten-free, holiday parties, killer chili, party food
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Recipe: Make Your Cocktails All Healthy-Like…
Only my holistic-remedy-loving-5K-running sister would think to make her alcohol GOOD for you. I was so impressed when I saw the recipe below, so I had to share it with all of you. Note: If you don’t drink alcohol, no problem. It … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Wine, Recipes
Tagged cocktails, gluten-free, Jenny Hansen, More Cowbell, party planning
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Some Holiday Yum and a Christmas Laugh from More Cowbell
Merry Christmas to all of you who celebrate it. I’ll be back here, ringing my Cowbell on Thoughty Thursday. Baby Girl is home all week so it’s gonna be wild at Chez Hansen. In the meantime, here are two links … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, More Cowbell, Recipes
Tagged Christmas, Holiday Yum, Jenny Hansen, UPS Man video
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Holly Candy: Christmas Baking Made Easy
It’s tradition in my family to bake for Christmas and all the recipes are handed down. My usual is to make Almond Roca, fudge, Russian Tea Cakes, several kinds of cookies and Holly Candy. The Holly Candy is the easiest … Continue reading
Holiday Yum: The 3 Lies In My Family Almond Roca Recipe
Every year, in the days after Thanksgiving, I open “the magic recipe folder” and start Christmas baking. I make 3 kinds of cookies, a couple different types of fudge, Russian Tea Cakes and mashed potato candy. Despite all those heaps … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Recipes
Tagged almond roca, baking, candymaking, Christmas, Holiday Yum, Jenny Hansen
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Crossing the Line at Crossfit (aka The Moaning Workout)
Hubby and I have been doing Crossfit for about 6 weeks now. Actually, I took a three-week hiatus for shingles, but he’s been going the entire six weeks, 3x a week. Crossfit is kind of wild. He’ll come home and say stuff … Continue reading
Gluten-Free Thanksgiving Meal Made Easy
For people that do a lot of cooking, eating gluten-free at home is not exceptionally hard. At least in my humble opinion. You eat less processed food, which is a good thing, and you have several smaller bags of flour, rather … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Wine, Holidays, Recipes
Tagged food, GF baking, gluten-free, Jenny Hansen, Thanksgiving
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When Candy-Making Isn’t So Sweet…
If you read my Sunday post, you know I made candy yesterday – Almond Roca to be exact. I have an old family recipe that my mother gave to me. I honestly don’t know how far back it goes – only … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Recipes
Tagged almond roca, baking, candymaking, Christmas, family, Holiday Traditions, Jenny Hansen, More Cowbell, Recipes
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Love Is On The Menu!
Friday is about Love (with a capital “L”) here at More Cowbell. Sometimes that’s good and sometimes not so good. Today, the L-Word is fantastic. My honey has been out of commission for a few weeks and tonight we have … Continue reading
Posted in Dating for Dummies, Food & Wine, Recipes
Tagged Aaron Wines, champagne vs prosecco vs cava, cooking, d'Arenberg Footbolt Shiraz, Drink the Dream, fig recipes, food and wine pairings, Gelfand Vineyards, great Shiraz, Hi-Time Wines, Jenny Hansen, Jenny Hansen's Blog, Kim Crawford, More Cowbell, Mulderbosch, Opolo, Paso Robles, Paso Robles red wine, Petite Sirah and steak, plan a great date, Recipes, romance, romantic evening, romantic meal, Sauvignon Blanc, steal and mushrooms, wine pairings, wine recommendations, wine tasting, www.wine.com, Zinfandel
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Doing the Melon “Bootie Shake” at More Cowbell!
Many of you know that I’ve become a somewhat avid gardener in the last few months, reaping the rewards of my father-in-law, the green-thumbed magician who gave me splendid soil. I still don’t know what he did to my dirt, … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Humor, Recipes
Tagged Baby's Got Back, Betty White, bootie shake, first time gardener, garden, gardening, growing melon, how to grow canteloupe, humor, I Like Big Butts, Jenny Hansen, melon, melon recipes, More Cowbell, new gardener, organic gardening, Recipes, Sandra Bullock, Sir Mix-A-Lot, the Melon Dance, The Proposal
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