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Chocolate Cherry Nut Granola

Chocolate Cherry Nut Granola

This sweet and crunchy chocolate cherry granola is great as a breakfast cereal with milk (or your favorite milk alternative), layered in yogurt parfaits or sprinkled on your smoothie bowls or ice cream sundaes. Or just eat it by the handful as a snack or trail food! It keeps well for weeks in a tightly sealed jar, or vacuum seal and freeze it for longer storage.

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Spiced Cranberry Nut Biscotti

Spiced Cranberry Nut Biscotti

These spiced cranberry nut biscotti, studded with crunchy almonds and pepitas make a great light breakfast, afternoon snack, or any time snack, really. Pair a steaming hot cup of coffee with a couple homemade crunchy biscotti cookies, lightly flavored with ginger and coriander and you’ll forget you’re in your own kitchen instead of a trendy coffee shop.

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Homemade Grape Jelly

Homemade Grape Jelly

This is a beginner-friendly water bath canning recipe.

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Spiced Cranberry Nut Biscotti

Spiced Cranberry Nut Biscotti

These spiced cranberry nut biscotti, studded with crunchy almonds and pepitas make a great light breakfast, afternoon snack, or any time snack, really. Pair a steaming hot cup of coffee with a couple homemade crunchy biscotti cookies, lightly flavored with ginger and coriander and you’ll forget you’re in your own kitchen instead of a trendy coffee shop.

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The Great Pumpkin Spritz Cookies

The Great Pumpkin Spritz Cookies

Add these pumpkin spice flavored cute little cookies to your Halloween treat bags for friends or coworkers, or brighten up your Thanksgiving desert table with a sweet little nibble that isn't pie. They look like you spent all day, but you can whip these up in an hour or so (and no messy icing or rolling and cutting and flour everywhere like most festive cookies).

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Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Walnut Biscotti

Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Walnut Biscotti

These chocolate chip biscotti, lightly spiced with cinnamon and studded with crunchy walnuts are a tasty treat for breakfast, or any time, really. The secret to these crunchy, long-lasting (if you don't eat them all right away) cookies is in the baking. They're twice baked, first as a flat oblong roughly shaped loaf, then cooled, thinly sliced, and baked again. You don't have to do it all on the same day, and they're really easy to make!

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Roasted Tomato & Ancho Salsa Roja

Roasted Tomato & Ancho Salsa Roja

This is a beginner-friendly water bath canning recipe for a roasted tomato and ancho salsa roja, adapted from a tested Ball canning recipe (with only safe modifications made). If you are canning this recipe, you can increase the amount of lime juice or tomato but do not increase the other ingredients or change ratios (any low-acid ingredients can be reduced or omitted to taste, but not the lime and tomato). If you are freezing the salsa or using it fresh, feel free to modify or adjust any ingredients to taste.

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Spiced Pear Chutney

Spiced Pear Chutney

This is a classic simmered chutney, combining fresh ripe pears and dried fruit along with sugar, vinegar, and spices. A western-style pickle like this spiced pear chutney is an often chunky and highly spiced preserve that pairs well with roasted meats or grilled meats, charcuterie or cheese boards, sandwiches, or rice and curry dishes.

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Chocolate Cherry Nut Granola

Chocolate Cherry Nut Granola

This sweet and crunchy chocolate cherry granola is great as a breakfast cereal with milk (or your favorite milk alternative), layered in yogurt parfaits or sprinkled on your smoothie bowls or ice cream sundaes. Or just eat it by the handful as a snack or trail food! It keeps well for weeks in a tightly sealed jar, or vacuum seal and freeze it for longer storage.

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The Great Pumpkin Spritz Cookies

The Great Pumpkin Spritz Cookies

Add these pumpkin spice flavored cute little cookies to your Halloween treat bags for friends or coworkers, or brighten up your Thanksgiving desert table with a sweet little nibble that isn't pie. They look like you spent all day, but you can whip these up in an hour or so (and no messy icing or rolling and cutting and flour everywhere like most festive cookies).

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