This is probably one of my most cherished recipes. If I close my eyes and inhale the aromas exuding from this cake, I can take myself back in time and imagine my mother lovingly unwrapping her Christmas Cake to feed it with brandy in the lead up to Christmas. I made an easier and smaller…
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Baked Amish Apple Cinnamon Raisin Oatmeal
Baked oatmeal is a traditional, comforting Amish breakfast casserole served warm or at room temperature with copious amounts of cream or milk. Unlike regular oatmeal; made on the stove-top or microwave which has a porridge-like consistency, baked oatmeal is made in the oven and in many ways is similar to bread pudding. There are never-ending…
The Ultimate & EASIEST Crock Pot Chicken & Noodles— Only 5 Ingredients!
This is probably one of the easiest dishes that I have offered thus far at Once Upon a Spice, but it will not be ignored! I went against my normal ingredient and used canned, but organic soups and broths make this very friendly and you can use low sodium if you prefer as well. The…
Chicken D’Olivo Bello
This incredible Northern Italian dish includes every flavor pleasing to the palate; sweet, salty, sour and savory. This is a recipe which I adapted from my mother’s northern Italian influence and a brilliant Sicilian chef whose shared expertise I hold dear as well. As a young teen, I fondly remember visiting my mother’s homeland near Naples,…
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