Peanut Butter and Chocolate Fudge

I’m feeling generous this month. I am trying to commit to posting more than one recipe per week.
Week 1: CHECK!

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Fudge Recipe - Cookin5m2-3

I am trying to share interesting recipes that are useful for this season, whether as sweets and desserts or dinner ideas of Christmas and New Year’s Eve. You can view all the posts coming up by following the link here: Christmas Recipes Dec. 2014

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Use Leftover Apple Peel and Cores, Make Apple Syrup

As I was making apple pies (yes, pies), I realized I’m leaving behind almost 10% of each apple in core and peel. I had to use it in some way.

Apple Syrup Recipe - Cookin5m2-1

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Classic Apple Pie & A New Member

Classical Apple Pie recipe - Cookin5m2-4

It’s time to meet a new member here.
She existed in my life late June this year and she was keeping me company, and sometimes bugging me ever since. Her craziness is beyond compare. Everyone that met her has confirmed that. Yet she is still fun to be around.

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Halloween Candy Apples (without corn syrup)

Halloween Candy Caramel Apples Recipe - Cookin5m2-7 Some time ago, I went apple picking and came back with around 25kg that I bought. One part went for direct consumption, another went for apple pies and another part went for testing a recipe for Halloween (even though we don’t celebrate it in Lebanon but it got imported and I root for our traditional dress-up feast) but sweets are out of this argument. Right?
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Hungry In Sri Lanka

Vacation is over but memories linger.

I will try not to get carried away and reduce the blabber and the storms of thoughts in my head so that I’m able to sum up my vacation, in which I will be surely not giving justice.

I have shared photos on Instagram of food, places and people. Many others were not shared, especially those taken using the camera. As I sort the images now, I recall the memories and the feelings and try to express them here in plain text.

Sri Lanka - Kandy 2014-49

This impulsive trip took a really good turn. It gave me wonderful moments in a breathtaking country (from what I saw and chose to preserve in my memory) for its landscapes, sceneries, people, culture, and of course food. At most times, it took my mind away from all the worries I got there with. I was hungry for new things, for a break from the routine and it was nothing short of that.
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