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Cookie Making Made Easy My Busy Mom Method

By Chris Rawstern · 11 years ago

In the early 1970s, when I was very young and with small children to care for, I had a few cookie recipes I would make very often, because they were simple recipes, with ingredients I ...

Gluten Free Baking, A Journey into New Territory

By Chris Rawstern · 11 years ago

Gluten-Free foods are taking their place in the world these days. We are all becoming more aware of gluten, gluten intolerance, celiac (or coeliac) disease, and what this means for so many people. While I ...

Tea the Real Story

By Chris Rawstern · 11 years ago

Everyone knows what tea is, right? Tea, technically, comes from the leaves of one plant, camellia sinensis. Anything other than the leaves from this plant is not actually tea, although tea is often used as ...

Cinnamon in the Cupboard Real or Imposter

By Chris Rawstern · 11 years ago

I have a bone to pick about cinnamon. How many of you really know what spice you have in your cupboards. Are you sure it really is cinnamon. We in the U.S. are having the ...