THE RECIPES Archives - Thistlewood Farm

14 June 2013

No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars and a Linky Party!

BY KariAnne 47 Comments

If you made these no-bake peanut butter bars and brought them to the potluck…..

…..and I was there….and I ate one.

We would instantly become BFF”s.

Truly.

I would sit right next to you with my peanut butter bar dessert plate and talk for hours.

I’d ask you for the recipe and point out my slice and bake cookies on the dessert table still covered with red Saran Wrap left over from Christmas and we would talk about how hot it has been here and how everything should be no-bake when it’s almost 100 degrees outside and how I have this very odd sunburn on one arm in the shape of a space ship where I forgot the sunscreen at the pool yesterday.Continue reading

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6 June 2013

Fourth of July Dessert

BY KariAnne 42 Comments

When I was younger my mother declared I was going to be Betsy Ross for the Fourth of July parade.

Seriously.

Everyone else in the neighborhood just decorated up their bikes with streamers and pedaled up the hill to patriotic music.

Not my family.

Not my mother.

I mean….why ride a bike up a hill….when you could dress the family up like the patriots of the American Revolution?

I had a souped up costume with petticoats and lace and blue gingham and black buckled shoes with an over sized ruffled hat

And I think my main responsibility was to drive Molly Pitcher around in a wagon.

Classic.Continue reading

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9 May 2013

Lemon Lime Bars

BY KariAnne 56 Comments

I think I finally figured it out.

The whole baking thing.

Before….in the macaroni and cheese kitchen….nothing I baked ever turned out.

My cookies would run off the baking stone or be solid as a rock and my cake would get done around the edges and be raw in the middle and my pies sometimes sunk like the top of a volcano.

Once….at a party….my brownies were so hard that when I tried to cut them…..the whole brownie sheet flew across the room and landed on the floor.

But the answer to becoming a better baker was there all along…..staring me in the face.

All I had to do…..Continue reading

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12 April 2013

Lemon Zest Cheesecake

BY KariAnne 36 Comments

When I got married a group of ladies got together to throw a recipe shower for me.

It was my mother’s idea.

At the time I was so all about my red lipstick and Dear Abby and my giant monogrammed train…..and so not all about cooking.

But I heard there might be a toaster oven involved.

So I went.

Only a little reluctantly.Continue reading

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26 March 2013

Pastry Wrapped Asparagus

BY KariAnne 62 Comments

True confessions.

I have never cooked asparagus in my life.

I’ve decorated with it.

I’ve covered vases with asparagus spears and made asparagus arrangements and tucked nests inside asparagus and filled mantels of milk glass containers with asparagus in the spring.

It’s my go-to vegetable.Continue reading

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