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Meat sauce:

¼ cup lime juice 1 tablespoon tequila 1 tablespoon Triple sec or Cointreau ¾ cup confectioners sugar 1 cup heavy cream

Get fabulous fragrance in your garden with these plants. Cut-Flower Companions A unique cutting flower, freesia is not commonly grown in the home garden and commands high prices at the florist. But growing your own freesia lets you enjoy all the beauty of florist shop bouquet right from your own backyard. Plant the elements of a charming garden bouquet by pairing freesia with dahlias, gladiolus, lady’s mantle (Alchemilla mollis), larkspur, cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus), amaranth, and pincushion flower (scabiosa)....

1 cup shortening 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla ½ teaspoon almond extract 4 cup powdered sugar 3 tablespoon milk

1 ¼ cup all-purpose flour ¼ teaspoon salt ⅓ cup shortening 4 tablespoon cold water

½ cup sugar 1 tablespoon dried lavender blossoms

To Make Ahead Prepare rolls as directed through Step 5, except do not let rise after shaping. Cover loosely with oiled waxed paper, then with plastic wrap. Chill 2 to 24 hours. Before baking, let chilled rolls stand, covered, at room temperature 30 minutes. Uncover and bake as directed. Browned Butter Frosting In a 1-qt. saucepan melt 6 tablespoons cut-up butter over low heat. Continue heating until butter turns a delicate light brown, stirring occasionally....

Plain low-fat yogurt (reserved from recipe above) ¼ cup honey 1 teaspoon finely shredded lemon peel Fat-free milk

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½ cup chopped onion ½ cup chopped green pepper ⅛ teaspoon ground red pepper ⅛ teaspoon chili powder 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 tablespoon olive oil, margarine, or butter 1 14.5 ounce can tomatoes, cut up 1 8 ounce can tomato sauce 1 tablespoon snipped fresh basil or 1 teaspoon dried basil crushed 1 teaspoon fennel seed, crushed (optional) ½ teaspoon sugar ¼ teaspoon pepper

2 tablespoon grated fresh ginger ¼ cup honey 2 tablespoon white wine vinegar 2 tablespoon freshly squeezed lime juice 1 small clove garlic, minced ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil ¼ teaspoon salt and freshly ground black pepper Quinoa Salad 1 cup water ⅔ cup uncooked quinoa ¼ teaspoon salt ½ cup whole cashews, coarsely chopped ½ cup dried apricots, sliced in thin slivers 1 cup fresh dark sweet cherries, pitted and halved, or red seedless grapes, halved ¼ cup thinly sliced red onion 1 small head butter lettuce, torn (4 cups)...

Party Prep A day or two before the party, mix a batch of pastry dough for each attendee. Form dough into disks, wrap in plastic wrap, and refrigerate until it’s time to roll. Designate individual work spaces with chilled pastry boards, parchment paper, and measuring cups and spoons. Provide easy access to prepped filling ingredients. Get the pastry recipe. Pastry Boards Marble boards hold a chill that keeps the butter in the dough solid for a flakier pastry....

Then: Blue Cheese Squares Making the blue cheese squares only takes a few simple steps. Alexis combines softened cream cheese, mayonnaise, and lemon juice, beating it with a hand mixer until light and fluffy. Next, she stirs in the blue cheese, chopped celery (which Alexis approvingly acknowledges as “salad-y”), and salt. The final step calls for folding in whipped heavy cream and transferring the mixture to a tray and freezing until firm....