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You CAN have your Cake 'n Cheesecake and Eat It Too. I Did. Like Eight Pieces Worth. Also, Good Aunties.

1/8/2016

 
My Aunt Mary Ann always made this
Cake 'n Cheesecake
​for family holiday meals growing up.
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​I have not had this cake for at least 20 years!!!
When I found the recipe and made it the other night, it tasted exactly like I remembered!

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​It was delish!

That creamy, tangy
sour cream topping,

the sweet
cream cheese filling,
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all nestled on a yellow homemade cake.


QUICK STORY:
After my Aunt Mary Ann passed, I begged my cousin Jonnie that if he found the recipe card to this cheesecake or a cookbook with the recipe in it, to make a copy for me. 

Jonnie eventually found the beloved handwritten recipe card in his mom's kitchen cookbooks and graciously GAVE IT TO ME!!  HOW AWESOME IS THAT??!! He and his girlfriend had found it!! And gave it to me!! Can you believe??!!
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​Being a good Auntie is important to me

because of my Aunt Mary Ann.
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Just like being a good Uncle has been important to Tim.


Tim and I have always loved our nieces and nephews as if they're our own.
​Even if they lived far, far away like Arizona :)



​And now we love our great nieces and nephews just as much as we do their moms and dads. Even the kiddos we haven't met in person yet :)
Cutie patooties! AND there are many more adorable kiddos not even pictured!
​We love every-single-one.



This is my Aunt Mary Ann c1970s.
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No comments from the peanut gallery on my exceptionally large head. You'll be happy to know I finally grew into it.

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Aunt Mary Ann rocked!!
Aunt Mary Ann operated a fruit stand on the island in Muscatine for decades...Mary Ann's Market!
​I worked and played (mostly played) many a summer there and it was A BLAST hanging out with my sister and cousin!!!!!!
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It was like a Kid Wonderland, almost exactly how you would want to remember your childhood...playing outside, laughing, running, getting dirty, getting into a little bit of trouble and always begging for more candy.
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The picture above is an actual postcard from her original market thanks to
my cousin Jonnie.


There was always a ton of customers milling about
and there were always so many fun and interesting and quirky things to do.

That is EXACTLY how I would describe Aunt Mary Ann.
Fun and Interesting and Quirky!

She believed kids should have fun.

Looking back, I can see now, she knew she was providing more than a summer of fun experiences for her nieces,
​she was also orchestrating a lifetime of memories for us. 



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Okay,
so let's get back to this

Cake 'n Cheesecake recipe,
​shall we?



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These are the fixins for this yummy, fun dessert...
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Now I googled Cake 'n Cheesecake and actually found the exact recipe online on Food.com.
Here's the direct link, where you can go and
print out the recipe.

​Food.com Cake 'n Cheesecake.
Cake 'n Cheesecake
From my Aunt Mary Ann's kitchen but also posted by Nancy1954 on Food.com

Ingredients
Cheesecake topping
8 ounces cream cheese
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 large eggs

Cake Batter
1 cup sifted all-purpose flour ( 4 oz.)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 ounces unsalted butter
2/3 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 tablespoon milk
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Sour cream topping
1 cup sour cream
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Directions
  1. Cheesecake topping:.
  2. Beat cream cheese and sugar together until well blended, then mix in sour cream and vanilla. Beat in eggs one at a time, then set aside.
  3. Cake batter:.
  4. Sift dry ingredients together. Cream butter and sugar, then beat in eggs, then milk and vanilla. Stir in dry ingredients.
  5. Grease and flour a deep 9-inch Pyrex pie plate, or a 9 x 9-inch square pan. Spread cake batter over bottom and sides, spreading much thinner on sides. Spoon cheesecake mixture over batter.
  6. Bake at 325° for 40-45 minutes, until cheesecake is set. Spread with sour cream topping, then return to oven for another 5 minutes. Cool, then refrigerate at least 4 hours.

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WARNING!! Super exciting picture ahead!

So we'll start the cheesecake by beating the spectacular cream cheese and that splendid sugar together...


​Next, beat in the wild and wacky vanilla extract,
​those crazy eggs,
​and the effervescent sour cream. 



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​Sift up

the sparkly dry ingredients 
​enthusiastically.



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​Now
set those two gleaming bowls aside.




​With unbridled anticipation,
let's pull together that cake batter!! C'mon kids, you can do it!!
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First
cream up the
​splendid butter and sugar!



Don't forget those crazy eggs, the wild and wacky vanilla and the impressive tablespoon of milk!




I now take a break and bring you a recommendation for the following product.
Kalona Supernatural. Dairy. Organic. Made just a few miles from my house. Look for it. Buy it. They should pay me for this promotion. It's worth 2 lbs of butter at least, isn't it? Or a carton of half and half. Or buttermilk. Anyway, here's the link to their website.
​Kalona Supernatural. They reeeeeeally do have fantastic products and I enthusiastically support them.





Now back to the amazing colorful, fascinating brilliance of my picture taking...






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Um,
​mix in the dry ingredients.

I mean the RADIANT
​dry ingredients.




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​Keep that impressive mixing up...



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Stop to gander over at Gibby who has decided to snootily sit and judge your baking skills.







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WHAT????  
Only a 4???????



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​Grrrrrrr, anyway
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​grease and dust up that bright shiny pan!





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DO NOT,
I repeat, DO NOT
spread the cake batter into the dish with your fingers.

It      Won't      Work.
No matter how determined
​you are.
​Or how many times you try.



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SHADDUP!!!!!!!!!!




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​Use the back of a greased spoon to spread the cake batter in the pan.





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Ta Daaaaa!!!!!!

Make sure the cake batter is spread up the sides too, just a bit thinner.






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Now
​pour that creamy, lovely cream cheese mixture over the cake batter.



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Keep your fingers out of the cream cheese batter,

(lick the bowl and beaters instead :) 

and throw that baby into the oven for 40-45 minutes. 








In the meantime, that tangy sour cream topping needs made up...mix up the sour cream, sugar and vanilla...





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​Now I took this out of the oven  at the 40 minute mark.



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Slather on
​that tangy topping...
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no need to let it cool first.





​Helllooooo beautiful Cake 'n Cheesecake!!!!
I was so excited to try a piece and see if it tasted just like it did when I was a kid!!!
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And




YES

IT

DID
​
!!!!!!!!
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The first thing you taste is the sweetness of the cream cheese contrasting with the tangy freshness of the sour cream frosting. And then you dig into the
buttery yellow cake.

Now this cake layer is a denser cake, it isn't light and floofy,
this cake means business!!



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And I certainly got down to business and ate a piece.

And then ate another piece to make sure every piece tasted the same. 


It did. 

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Found that out after the third piece.





Okay...
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So remember when I talked about my cousin Jonnie finding and giving me Aunt Mary Ann's original recipe card?




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​W
ell,
I made several photocopies of it just in case I lost it.




And then I lost it.



I knew I hid the original recipe card in a special place and I knew that I would remember where that special place was when I wanted to find the original written in my
Aunt's handwriting.


​I scoured through each of my cookbooks, seemed the most obvious place to hide a cherished recipe card.
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Nope. Not there.


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Okay fine.

​ I bet I stuck it in the pantry by the internet recipes I pull off.





Yeah no. Not there.


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I run into my bedroom closet where I have a small tub of collected recipes and magazines over the years and went through every single piece of paper.





Sighhhhhhhhhhh.

All day, I mean ALL DAY I kept thinking if I was a cherished recipe, where would Angie put me??


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I kept
​
going back to the cookbooks, that is where I would have put a cherished recipe, but there is no  recipe card stuck in ANY cookbook!





I Suck!!!!!!
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I look through the four papers on the microwave, knowing it isn't there,
but gosh darnit, WHERE IS IT???!!!




​Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding!!!!!
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I remembered Tim threw a whole bunch of my recipes in this stereo one day!!!!!

 


So I open the bottom door, YES!! It has to be there!!!!! I just KNOW it is!!!!
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But it wasn't.




However, a bag full of vintage Christmas elfins and cookbooks that I was supposed to send to my mom and an old-school plug-in land line phone was.




Later in the day, when I was less....hmmm...angry....I went back to the books.
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C'mon you suckahs!
I know one of you has this recipe card stuck in it!!


Which one???

Fess up!!!

I will not be foiled by food stained books.





And yes, that is EXACTLY what I sneered to the books. PINKY SWEAR!! 
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I pull my all time favorite cookbook out, a church cookbook from our old church in West Branch, and I SLAM it on the island and I meticulously go through
every
single 
page.
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​Bingo.





And there it was...
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On top of one of my favorite desserts ever.




So kids, if there is a lesson to be learned in all of this,
let it be
1. Always be a good Auntie.
2. Always trust your instincts when you hide crap.
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Mary Ann Hatfield  1937-2013.

Delightful and Delicious Oven-Fried Chicken with Waffles and White Gravy and Hey, Take a Gander Into a Messy Pantry...No Judging Though

1/2/2016

 

Hi Y'all!!!!!!!!!

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​
​How's everybody been????!!!

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Little Boy Blue (4 year old grandson) in the first snow before Thanksgiving.



​


​Miss Me???!!!
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Marvin Miller's sheep in the back forty early December.


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I've missed sharing with y'all!!!

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Angie went white tissue paper and ultra shiny with doo dad curly doodle thingamajigs for the Christmas wrapping this year.



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And guess what!!!


I made an AMAZING
Oven-Fried Chicken with Waffles
and

White Gravy
​recipe today!!!

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YES!! TODAY!!!  I KNOW!!!
I was soooo excited, I just knew no matter what,
​
I had to share this with you!!


​And it all started with the wrong bag of
potato chips in my pantry.
I accidentally bought these "Salt & Pepper" Kettle Chips yesterday for snacking  during the Rose Bowl.
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Typically I always buy these...
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​"Sea Salt"
​Kettle Chips.



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​But the bag I accidently threw into my cart at the grocery was
"Salt & Pepper" Kettle Chips.



Shockingly, the Chicken and Waffle Recipe I reeeeeally wanted to make after googling this morning, featured...

that's right...


Salt & Pepper Kettle Chips!!!!!
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Did someone just hear an angel play a horn?




Let me tell you, as soon as I discovered this Chicken and Waffle recipe and saw I had everything in the kitchen to make this.....I screamed to get my camera and started taking the most craptastic pictures ever! 


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These are the fixins for
Oven-Fried Chicken with Waffles
and White Gravy!!
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Quick Note: This recipe is for two servings only.
If you want to feed more than two people, double or triple the recipe like I did!
Oven-Fried Chicken with Waffles and White Gravy
Featured on bakerbynature.com  
​Recipe author: dinnerfortwoblog.com
Yield: 2 servings

Serving Size: 1 serving
Fluffy buttermilk waffles topped with crispy fried chicken and creamy white pepper gravy.

Ingredients
  • For the chicken:
  • 1 large boneless, skinless, chicken breast, sliced in half lengthwise 
  • 3 tablespoons mayonnaise
  • 1 cup salt and pepper kettle-cooked potato chips, finely crushed​
  • For the waffles:
  • 1 large egg white
  • 2 tablespoons granulated sugar, divided
  • 1 and 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
  • 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons buttermilk
  • For the white pepper gravy:
  • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons whole milk
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
  • 2 tablespoons scallions, chopped, optional

  1. For the chicken:
  2. Preheat oven to 400 degrees (F). Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicon baking mat; set aside.
  3. Place the chicken breast on a clean work surface. Rub the chicken breast halves with mayonnaise then generously coat all sides of the chicken with the crushed kettle chips. Don't worry if they don't all stick! Transfer the chicken to the prepared baking sheet and bake for 15-17 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through and the outer crust is slightly browned. Transfer chicken to a plate and store in the microwave or a warmer drawer until needed.
  4. For the waffles:
  5. While the chicken is baking, preheat your waffle iron.
  6. In a small bowl, using a hand mixer, beat egg white and one tablespoon of sugar on medium-speed until light and fluffy and soft peaks begin to form, about 1 minute; set aside.
  7. In a large bowl whisk together flour, remaining sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Make a well in the center of the batter and pour in the melted butter and buttermilk. Whisk until mixture is smooth and no lumps remain. Using a spatula, gently fold in the egg whites, stirring just until incorporated.
  8. Using a 3/4 cup measuring cup, scoop batter, and pour onto heated waffle iron. Cook until waffle is browned and crispy on the outside, about 5 minutes. Repeat for the second waffle. Once the waffles are done, place them on a plate and store inside the microwave or a warming drawer.
  9. For the white pepper gravy:
  10. In a small pan over medium-heat, melt the butter and whisk together with the flour for about 2 minutes. Add in the milk, salt, and pepper. Let simmer until thickened; about 5 minutes. Remove from heat.
  11. Assembly:
  12. Place a waffle on a serving plate. Top with chicken, then generously pour gravy on top of chicken and waffle. Repeat for the second waffle dish. Top with chopped scallions, if desired.
  13. Serve warm.

Now I found this recipe 
from the 
bakerbynature.com website.
Check her website out, especially under Dinner recipes, her dishes look great!!
The recipe is from a newly published cookbook called
​Dinner For Two

by Julie Wampler.
This is Julie's website: 
Dinnerfortwoblog.com​

I bookmarked Julie's blog, it looks awesome!!


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We start with the chicken....
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​There's only 3 ingredients to the chicken:

Boneless/skinless chicken breasts

Crushed Kettle Chips
​

Mayo



And now, for a very special love note to my sister-in-law:


Dear Kim,


USE MAYO!!!!


Love always,
Angie



​​We begin by crushing those potato chips!!


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A large 13 oz. bag of potato chips crushed to a bit less than 4 cups.
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Enough for 4 chicken breasts.



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Slice the chicken breasts lengthwise.

Again, note...I fourpled the recipe.

I mean, I used 4 whole chicken breasts instead of 1.

Fourple is a word.
​In the Pretend Word Dictionary.




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​Rub the chicken halves with mayo...




​And then coat the chicken halves into that crushed
​Salt & Pepper crushed Kettle chips.


Bake at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes...
and the yummy chicken should come out looking like this...
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​Ahhh man,

can't you just taste that salty, peppery potato chip coating?




Okay, chicken is warming in the oven...let's get these buttermilk waffle ingredients pulled together.
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Whip the egg whites and sugar until soft peaks form.



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Whisk flour, sugar, baking soda & powder and salt.
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Do you think my picture here would win me an award for
​Most Boring Picture Ever?


I think so.

Shut up.





Anyhoo, make a "well" (FANCY COOKING WORD ALERT..."WELL") and throw the eggs and buttermilk in the...fancy "WELL"!



Whisk it all up and fold in the whipped egg whites...
​this will make the mixture all fluffy...



Throw the mixture in the waffle maker.
(By the way, if you don't have a waffle maker, my advice is to get a waffle maker or borrow one and forget to return it, you won't regret it.)
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Now make up that peppered white gravy with butter,
flour,
​ milk, salt and pepper....
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Whisk and cook until the gravy thickens...
yummy!!




​FINALLY....NOW
let's build a Waffle with Oven-Fried Chicken and White Gravy!





Light Buttermilk Waffle
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Plus Salty Crispy Coated Chicken
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Topped with creamy
​White Peppered Gravy
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​Equals
​Complete Deliciousness!!!
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I'm telling you, this recipe is foolproof!!!
The salty chip coating on that juicy chicken breast, layered on a fluffy sweet waffle, topped with savory, tasty, finger lickin' good pepper gravy!!!

Foolproof!!!!!

I'm a complete fool and even *I* couldn't mess this up!!!!!!


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​If you want to print the recipe, highlight, copy and print the recipe up above or click on bakerbynature.com and print the recipe from there.


​I hope you make this recipe sometime!!!
If you do, let me know how it came out!

Kids will LOVE this chicken with the potato chip crust!!



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Okay, so anyway...
remember when I was talking about this bag of
potato chips
in my pantry earlier??



Well, I thought I would share pictures of my very,
very messy pantry with you.

I am clearly of the "Not Proud" folk of the world.
​More like the "Dis be me, no excuses, I yam what I yam" folk.
​

Do NOT proceed any further if you are a judgey person :)





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SHUT UP!!!!!!!
I told you it was messy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Anyhoo, let's start with the Pepsi with real sugar that I keep in the pantry.
These are "teeny" Pepsis as
​Tim says.
Small cans.
​It helps Tim to not drink so much pop.



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On the lower shelf are the extra dishes  used for this here food blog, neatly organized.

:)



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​The lower shelf also brings us a menagerie of freezer baggies, internet recipes, and kitchen appliances.




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The middle shelf here is stuffed with onions, potatoes, and canned goods.



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Hey!
I bought a boatload of shallots for Christmas and then decided not to make the recipe....

​Anyone need any shallots???




​
As you all know, I am not a baker.
I hate it.
​Makes me itchy scratchy like poison ivy. 

For some reason, baking ingredients takes up an inordinate amount of my pantry. 
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WAIT WAIT!!!!
See the box of Whoppers up there??? I made a Chocolate cake with Whoppers at Christmastime! Here, let me find a picture.





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SEE!!!!
​I did it!!!
And I didn't even swear or threaten to throw the mixer out the back door!!!!

I lied. Of COURSE I swore and threatened to throw the mixer out the back door.
Duh.
​Do you even KNOW me?



​Let's move along to the other side of the middle shelf.
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Vinegars,
oils, honey, raisins and a paper bag make up this space.

​Look up on the right hand side on the wall there....



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O
n the wall is this tea towel with measurements
and a vintage
Leave a Note box
with a broken

clock hand.

Let's see if someone left a note.....



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Oh look. Someone did.
It says:

Dear Angie,

You are more beautiful than any of the Charlie's Angels and Ginger from Gilligan's Island. 

Love,
Tim


​Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.................



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Anyhoo,
I kind of have a thing for olive oils.

I try to buy the best I can afford.

On sale of course.








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​The other side of that shelf is the cereal and crackers.

It actually looks reasonably organized. 

Huh.
What'dya know.
​Weird.






Oh. Retract what I said about reasonably organized.  In back of the cereals and crackers are a heap o' pasta and rice and such.
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​I will say one of my resolutions is to actually cook up items like these more, instead of having the expiration date tick tock by and then all of sudden I'm like WHAT THE WHAT, HOW DID THIS EXPIRE FOUR YEARS AGO AND I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT!!!!!!



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​I do love me the Zaza's Pasta and I keep stocked at all times!

Made right here in Iowa City,
​it is!


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On the top shelf of the pantry is the paper products,

craptastically organized as you can see.






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​And
on the floor is a menagerie of crockpots and paper towels....

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And the other side of the floor is bakeware and ice cube trays.

Ice cube trays.

Ice cube trays.

I have a fridge that makes ice cubes yet I feel the need to keep ice cube trays.

Ice cube trays.


Ice cube trays.

It's times like this I really have to wonder about myself.
Ice cube trays.
Four of them.
​In packaging still.
Good golly.​




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Lastly, this is my sliding pantry door.
Straight outta the carriage stall of our 1870s barn.
​W
ashed it down before they installed it with a garden hose and Dawn dishwashing soap and called it guuuuud enough.
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We kept  the original hardware and track. It sounds like a freight train when opened :)



In fact, everything is original.....
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From the handle and the notch on the side...




To more notches and grease stains...
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And all the imperfections...
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This door is absolutely perfect to us.
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Okay kids, that's all I have for today!!!
Heck, it was enough,
wasn't it???!!!

​Next time, I'll thrill all y'all with my laundry room!!!
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Dude, I'm kidding about the laundry room.

Seriously, seriously kidding.






​Happy New Year!!

Have a great weekend!
Hopefully it won't be another three months before I post again!  
Stay warm and we'll talk at ya soon!!



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