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Time for another delicious, perfect for fall recipe! Although I will admit that I did not conceive of this during the fall. I made it for the first time in July and have since been making and eating it so fast that I haven't had time to post about it.  I have dear friend who attends Catholic Seminary, and when he was home this summer he mentioned that they have delicious bacon bread there. He had me at bacon bread. I immediately decided I had to figure out how to make bacon bread of my own, and my first stroke of genius was what if there were actual pieces of bacon in the bread!  I decided that a good basis for starting this recipe would be a basic beer bread. First of all, if you have not ever made beer bread, you must. It is special and delicious all on its own; great with soup or for breakfast or just snacking. And it's incredibly easy, even for a quick bread!  So. I began with this recipe for beer bread . It calls for 3 cups sifted flour, 3 tsp baking powder,...

A few weekends ago my little sister did something very nice for me. She threw me (on the same day) both a wedding shower and a bachelorette party. She was truly the hostess with the mostest. She made the whole day all about me and I felt really special, and for the first time it really hit me that in just over a month I will literally be walking down the aisle and promising to live with N. and his computers forever. The point: I wanted to do something to say an appropriate thank-you for doing something so nice. So I decided to bake her some delicious cookies. Then I thought that it might be a good idea if I shared this recipe with the world so that anyone can thank anybody with these cookies anytime they want. This recipe was originally sent to me by my mother. She clipped it out of a magazine and told me that she thought I would love it—and she was right. The article said that they were “edible valentines”, and though I did make them for N. last year for Valentine’s Day, I quickly be...