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I will make these for sure as I am an addict. What I would really like to make (or buy) are a kind of cookies called POGENS. They are very thin melt in your mouth ginger snaps and oh so good.
The other thing I have been looking for for 15 years or so is Van de Camps bakery frosting. It was a well known bakey in Southern California for as long as I can remember. It is not a bakery anymore and I cannot find the recipe for the frosting they would put on birthday cakes. I would have a Van de Camps (maybe it was Kamps) birthday cake for every birthday as it was my favorite. If anyone can help me please email reganranch@vanirmail.com.
Getting back to the subject at hand. The Caramel de lites were sold at regular (Ralph's, Safeway) grocery stores and were on the top shelf, a yellow box and probably the most expensive cookie on the whole aisle. Do they still make them?
Thank you for your help on all questions.

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I grew up in the Glendora area of southern California where In and outs owners lived. They did not hire any woman to work in their stores so the men were the only ones to get the good paying job. The family has been through hell and back but still own the company.I am currently living in Alaska and Oregon and am a flexatarian. I will only eat an In and Out burger once a year but crave it much more often.. There is a good book that came out about a year ago that explains the whole operation.I am 57 years old now and would go to the drive through on Arrow Highway during lunch in high school.Dang, just can't beat that burger, animal style :D

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Cakespy: Homemade Samoas Girl Scout Cookies

I will make these for sure as I am an addict. What I would really like to make (or buy) are a kind of cookies called POGENS. They are very thin melt in your mouth ginger snaps and oh so good.
The other thing I have been looking for for 15 years or so is Van de Camps bakery frosting. It was a well known bakey in Southern California for as long as I can remember. It is not a bakery anymore and I cannot find the recipe for the frosting they would put on birthday cakes. I would have a Van de Camps (maybe it was Kamps) birthday cake for every birthday as it was my favorite. If anyone can help me please email reganranch@vanirmail.com.
Getting back to the subject at hand. The Caramel de lites were sold at regular (Ralph's, Safeway) grocery stores and were on the top shelf, a yellow box and probably the most expensive cookie on the whole aisle. Do they still make them?
Thank you for your help on all questions.

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Nordstrom's Tomato Basil Soup

I have used tofu for the creaminess in my mushroom soup for years. If I am out of tofu, I would use fatfree sour cream. Cottage cheese works too but it does not freeze well as the others do..

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The Burger Lab: The Ins-n-Outs of an In-N-Out Double-Double, Animal-Style

I grew up in the Glendora area of southern California where In and outs owners lived. They did not hire any woman to work in their stores so the men were the only ones to get the good paying job. The family has been through hell and back but still own the company.I am currently living in Alaska and Oregon and am a flexatarian. I will only eat an In and Out burger once a year but crave it much more often.. There is a good book that came out about a year ago that explains the whole operation.I am 57 years old now and would go to the drive through on Arrow Highway during lunch in high school.Dang, just can't beat that burger, animal style :D

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What's your favorite cake?

My favorite cake is really a frosting made by Van de Kamps bakery in L.A. I believe the bakery closed about 15 years ago. My mom would buy their birthday cake at Ralph's market for my first 14 birthdays. I love their frosting. Does anyone have the recipe? I would love to make some. Please, if you are part of the Van de Kamp family, send the recipe so I can make it for my kids.I live in Oregon and Alaska now and cannot find a frosting like that!
Thanks

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