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The Recipe for This Book
Introduction: Does Anybody Else Feel Like This?
A Budding Chef
Main Street
Loose Wires
Pretending My Way to Success
Failure That Was Good Enough
The Boogeyman Just Might Be Under My Bed!
In-a-Pickle
A Not-So-Perfect Piecrust
Bull-Puckey, I Can Do This
Please, Give This Woman a Job!
He Loves Me, He Loves Me a Lot
Somebody Should Have Told Me About This!
Muffins and Mayhem
May I Please Have This Dance?
I Miss My Mother
Still In-a-Pickle and It’s Not What Miss Manners Would Do
Home for the Holidays
Did Somebody Bring the Cookies?
Seasonings: The Ingredients of a Small-Town Girl
Writing the Recipe for My Life
One Last Note from the Author
Acknowledgments
Reading Group Guide
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Almost Beef with Broccoli
Amy’s Piecrust
Apple Cutout Sugar Cookies
Basic Crepes
Beef Stew
Braised Shrimp with Vegetables
Candy-Cane Cookies
Chicken Crepes
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cinnamon Rolls
Company Fare Pork Chops
Crock Pot Dressing
Dolly Madison Muffins
Funnel Cake with Buttercream Frosting
Grandma Hale’s Deviled Eggs
Grandma Hale’s Stuffing for a Fifteen-Pound Turkey
Hearty Chili
Hot ’n’ Sour Soup
Lava Cakes
Marinated Flank Steak
Mother’s Oatmeal Chocolate-Chip Cookies
Mrs. Creswick’s Frosted Meatloaf
My Favorite Blueberry Muffins
Never Fail Pie Crust
Northern Maine Oatmeal Bread
Pickling Syrup
Porcupine Meatballs
Potsticker Sauce
Potstickers
Pumpkin Bread with Pumpkin Whipped Cream
Ron and Virginia’s Bread-and-Butter Pickles
Ron’s Goulash
Shrimp Salad
Skunk Beans
Spaghetti Sauce
The Funeral Cake with Buttercream Frosting
Turkey Pie
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