It's soup season! Actually...every season is soup season in my opinion, but as the days turn colder, and darkness sets in earlier each night,  nothing is better than a warm bowl of soup.  At least once a week I look at what is in the cupboards and refrigerator, throw it into a pot...and cross my fingers for success. Then, if I feel that...

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Cookies might be Brendan's favorite snack food.  Actually, I can't say ALL cookies because he does not like chocolate chip cookies...which I learned the hard way early on in our relationship.  I made him the famous, award winning, globally known and loved List Chocolate Chip Cookies to impress him one day, and to my surprise he didn't gobble them up - but confessed to...

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Brendan LOVES pumpkin pie (but really just the pumpkin pie filling). I think he gets this from his grandpa who would always enjoy a large piece immediately following Thanksgiving dinner - no waiting needed....and the more whip on top, the better!   His grandma would make two pies every year, and they were both probably gone by the time she got to sit...

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