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We can't live without jalapeno bean dip and corn chips.

My resolution is to try a new recipe every week.

I made finger foods and had play stations set up much like mini golf for the neighbor kids at Christmas. They ate, drank and played nerf bow and arrow, pin the nose on Rudolph and made snowflakes.

My husband and I have a laugh when he ordered a care-a-fee of wine.

My favorite cookie is a sevon layer bar which has a little of everything, chocolate and butterscotch chips, coconut, walnuts and a great cookie crust.

My biggest disaster was making a box cake mix and beating it so much that it looked like a brownie and I baked it so long waiting for it to rise I couldn't cut it.

Tyler Florence would be very welcome in my home.

My mentor is my mother-in-law. She is a wonderful cook and she has imparted my husband's favorites so I can feed him happy.

I make checken, vegetables and rice in a tin foil packet.

I would make my butter rum cake.

Pan baked chicken,
sweet potato,yukon potato medley
and lemon steamed broccoli