I tried making cheese bread this weekend. Technically, it came out well; tastewise, we all agreed that (cheddar) cheese bread didn't do anything for us. I think I'll scratch that one off the list of "breads to make in the future".

That's the way of cooking experiments: sometimes you add a great new recipe to your repertoire, and sometimes you have to scratch it off the list of "Things I will make again". It's also necessary to have victims an understanding audience that is willing to taste-test new things that might not work out. ;-)

Here's two recipes that have proved out. One is the bread I described making last week, and the other is a clam chowder recipe that has become a family favorite.

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Easy Fantasy Fudge is my favorite fudge recipe. It's a mod on the recipe found on the back of Kraft Marshmallow Creme.

Tollhouse Cookies is my favorite cookie. It's a mod of a very old version of the recipe on the back of Nestlé chocolate chips packages. Not the current version, which I don't like as much.

Here are two holiday dessert salads traditional in our family. I got them from my mother-in-law.

Yum-Yum Salad

24-Hour Salad

Cranberry-Pecan Pie

This is a variant on Pecan Pie, as you might expect.
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Fool-proof Pie Crust

My grandmother's pie crust recipe, makes a good pie crust that's hard to screw up. Take the usual precautions for flakiness anyway.
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