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Hello, friends. I have such a delicious old-fashioned candy treat for you today. This peanut butter fudge recipe is the absolute best candy, y’all!Perfect for snacking or for giving as gifts, you can make this particular peanut butter fudge with either creamy or crunchy peanut butter: I tested both to be sure.What sets this recipe apart is the addition of honey, which for me is a no-brainer, because peanut butter and honey are fantastic together. Stick with me, and I’ll show you how to make it.If fudge is your thing, you may also really enjoy my penuche recipe. For ease...

In his new cookbook, Super Good Cookies For Kids, Duff Goldman leads with a dedication. It reads “For Josephine. You and me are gonna bake so many cookies together.” It’s a sweet inscription from father to daughter. But we’d suggest one slight change: the “so” and “many” should be italicized or at least all-capped for emphasis, if only to capture some of Goldman’s crackling excitement. Goldman, the pastry chef and Food Network personality most famous for his wild confectionary creations on Ace of Cakes, is a generally enthusiastic type. But he’s so stoked to bake with Josephine, to spend flour-covered...

Can a humble fruit shorten labor time by hours and with less induction and less postpartum bleeding? A randomized, controlled trial of hundreds of pregnant women found that having women eat around six dates a day for a few weeks before giving birth can significantly improve “cervical ripening,” the readiness of the cervix, which is the opening to the birth canal. Drugs and surgery can also prep the cervix; “oxytocin is the most common agent used worldwide,” and you may have heard doctors refer to it by the brand name Pitocin. Although it’s effective, “it is associated with multiple adverse...

 ***********************************My Sweetie and i were sitting at the kitchen table yesterday (really) and we suddenly started to hear an annoying beep.Tracking it down, we found our old range/oven set had malfunctioned and nothing we did could get the incessant beeping to stop.This appliance quit working years ago and the oven part is only used for storage, the top is where the pots and pans live.  We'd already switched to induction cookers long ago and a portable oven; this was only plugged in because we hadn't taken the time to pull it out from it's place in the counter and unplug it.There...

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