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Holiday Bread Recipe: Cheddar Chive Biscuits

November 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Perfect for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, Anyday...

Cheddar Chive Biscuits Apparently Marc Forgione (Season Three Iron Chef Winner) got his cooking skills from his dad.  His father, Larry, was a culinary legend who revolutionized American-style cooking in the ‘70s
and ‘80s.  Marc recently shared with T-fal (a brand I’m addicted to, by the way) one of his favorite Thanksgiving traditions:  his father’s classic Chedder-Chive Biscuits.

Marc recommends serving these golden delicious biscuits during the holidays and using them to mop up all of the gravy on your plate.  I can’t help thinking the chef’s onto something here!
Serve warm or drizzle with a pinch of honey as the perfect sidekick to your Turkey.

Cookie and Biscuit Tip Extraordinaire: Use the wonderful burn-proof T-fal AirBake Cookie Sheet as the best way to achieve guaranteed no-burn biscuits and cookies.

Larry’s Cheddar-Chive Biscuits

Makes 24 biscuits

3 cups all purpose flour
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon baking powder
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
2-1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 cup grated cheddar cheese
1 bunch chopped chives
2-1/2 cup heavy cream
Warm honey, for serving, optional

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees; position the rack in the middle. In a large bowl, whisk together all the flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt until thoroughly combined. Stir in the cheese and the chives. Add the heavy cream and mix or knead until loose dough forms. Do not over-knead.
  2.  Turn the dough out onto a well floured surface and, using a rolling pin, roll out the dough to about 3/4-inch thickness. Using a 2-inch biscuit cutter, cut the dough into biscuits. Transfer the biscuits to a greased cookie sheet and bake about 18-20 minutes, or until golden brown. Serve warm with a drizzle of honey.

Here I go with my soup fetish again, but I can’t help thinking how AMAZING these biscuits would be with potato soup.

Amazing T-fal AirBake Cookie Sheets and Pizza Pans:

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Easter Candy Cookies: Beautiful and Delicious

April 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Who Could Ask for More from a Cookie?

Easter Candy Cookies

Easter Cookies Recipe

3/4 cup butter, softened
1 egg
1 tbsp. vanilla
2/3 cup sugar
2/3 cup packed brown sugar
2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
3/4 tsp. salt
2 cups small chocolate Easter candies or coarsely chopped candy bars (Editor’s note: We used Hershey’s Solid Milk Chocolate Eggs)
36 jelly beans, if desired

  1. Heat oven to 375⁰F.  Beat butter, egg and vanilla in large bowl until well mixed. Mix in both sugars.
  2. Stir in flour, baking soda and salt until smooth. Stir or knead in chocolate candies (Target Tip: To make it easy for kids to chop larger pieces of hard candy, place candy in sealed plastic bag and let kids pound with a rolling pin or large wooden spoon.)
  3. Drop mixture onto cookie sheets using a tablespoon.
  4. Bake 10 to 12 minutes until golden brown around edges. Press a jellybean into each cookie.  Let cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheet.  Cool completely.

Yield: 3 Dozen Beautiful Cookies

Photo and Recipe Credit: A Bullseye view!

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The Woman’s World April 9, 2012 Issue

April 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment

PACKED with Recipes You'll Love

Woman's World April 9 2012 IssueAs you may know, I’m something of a magazine fanatic. What’s more, I refuse to part with them.  My daughters and I pass them around, then one of us will lay claim to the booty and file it under “Mine, all Mine!” I collect most of my magazines like the treasures they are – especially the ones with great recipes.  A great day is when I return from the store with bags of wonderful groceries and an armful of new magazines. I can only imagine the expression on my face when I see that new magazines have been put on the store’s racks. I must look like a kid as he leaves school for summer break.

ECSTASY!!!

There are a couple of magazines that I simply put into the cart the minute I see a new issue. Others, I’ll thumb through – making sure it warrants a trip home. One of the magazines that automatically go into the cart is Woman’s World. For less than $2.00, Woman’s World is the greatest literary bargain you’ll ever find. Possibly the greatest bargain left in the world. Basically, this magazine is smiles from cover to cover. There are always countless adorable pictures and wonderful stories that warm your heart and comics that make you laugh out loud. You know, the kind you cut out and pin to your refrigerator.

Speaking of pictures, there’s a photo of a kitten smelling a poppy in the most recent issue that gets me every time I look at it. Someone needs to tell this kitten that she’s simply too cute. I’d looked through the magazine half a dozen times before I even realized that beneath the kitten’s picture were GORGEOUS pictures of poppies on tablecloths, plates, handbags, shoes, bracelets, and even a sundress. This crazy cat lady had never noticed them before.

In addition to the photographs, stories, and funnies, each issue has priceless beauty, fitness, money, and health advice. In this particular issue (April 9, 2012), for example, you can find the following:

  • Stay Stroke-Free For Life
  • 6 Easy Ways to Stop Thinning Hair
  • Dodge the Year-Round Flu
  • 9 BEAUTIFUL Spring handbags
  • How to Use Makeup to Make You Look Slimmer
  • How to Improve Your Mood Quickly (One suggestion is coffee – no wonder I’m seldom in a bad mood… I’m seldom without a cup of coffee nearby)
  • Treat Sensitive Teeth
  • End Joint Pain
  • Lose 9 Pounds in 2 Days
  • How Chocolate is Good for You (Man, I seriously love this magazine…)
  • Contests (win $1,000 in groceries!)
  • A Bunny Bonnet Cake Recipe and Instructions
  • 5 Gorgeous Breakfast Recipes
  • Turn a Can of Soup Into Dinner
  • Easter Favorites (Recipes which include a Flourless Orange-Chocolate Cake, Leg of Lamb, Cupcakes, and Matzo Ball Soup)
  • Spring Decorating Tips and Ideas
  • How to Make Designer Eggs
  • Crossword Puzzle (in every issue – love these)
  • How to Slim Down with Spices
  • What Your Food Cravings Reveal About You
  • Horoscope (again, in every issue)
  • Sudoku
  • A Couple of Brain Games
  • A few short stories
  • Chicken Soup for the Soul Story (these are always amazing)

All of that (and more!) for less than $2.00.  Freaking amazing.

The adorable Easter Cake in this issue:

Easter Cake in the Woman's World April 9, 2012 Issue

Below is one of the recipes in this issue. It’s a “Lighten Up” Recipe for Double Strawberry Bars and I can’t wait to try them.

Double-Strawberry Bars

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
1 pkg. (8 oz) 1/3 less fat cream cheese, at room temperature
4 Tbs. I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter! cooking and baking 79 percent vegetable oil spread, at room temperature
1 cup granulated sugar
1-1/2 cups frozen sliced strawberries, thawed and patted dry with paper towels
3/4 cup low-sugar strawberry preserves
1/4 cup blanched sliced almonds
1 Tbs. coarse white decorating sugar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 13″x9″ baking pan with foil; coat with cooking spray.

Mix flour, cinnamon and salt; reserve.  On medium speed, beat cream cheese and butter spread until blended.  Beat in granulated sugar until combined. Beat in reserved flour mixture until combined.

Turn out onto unfloured surface; gather mixture into smooth dough. Reserve 1 cup dough.  Press remaining dough into bottom of pan.

In bowl, toss strawberries with preserves; spread over dough in pan.  Using fingertips, crumble reserved dough over strawberry filling.  Sprinkle with almonds. Bake 35 minutes or until golden. Cool.  Sprinkle with decorating sugar.  Using foil, lift from pan; remove foil. Cut into bars.

 

 

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Gifts from the Kitchen

November 10, 2011 By 1 Comment

100 Irresistible Homemade Presents for Every Occasion: Christmas, Valentine's Day, Birthdays...

Gifts from the Kitchen: 100 Irresistible Homemade Presents for Every Occasion by Annie Rigg

Homemade Gifts for Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Weddings, Showers, Birthday, and every single day of the year!

When it comes to cookbooks, I’m on a roll I can’t even believe. I’ve been sent some of the most amazing cookbooks and cooking magazines to review lately.  As a cookbook collector, I’m in hog Heaven. Chefs, publishers, authors, and food lovers are turning out some of the most amazing cookbooks I’ve ever seen lately.  The competition is fierce in this hugely popular subject, and believe me, everyone’s stepping up their game.

The most recent beauty I was sent to review is no exception. Gifts from the Kitchen: 100 Irresistible Homemade Presents for Every Occasion is filled with stunningly beautiful photos and highly unique, absolutely amazing recipes. There’s a recipe for Fortune Cookies (page 126), for example, and you can even add your own message inside. They’re gorgeous.

If, for some reason, you aren’t sure you want to buy a book just for baked Christmas gift ideas, let me assure you that this is a book you’ll use year round. Check out some of the great recipes, and you’ll see what I mean:

  • Granola (make a batch for yourself to use on yogurt or cereal or make for a gift – fills about 4 jam jars)
  • Chocolate Valentine’s Cakes
  • Baby Shower Cakes (they’d be gorgeous for wedding showers too)
  • Easter Nest Cupcakes (adorable!)
  • Doughnuts
  • Stained Glass Snowflake Cookies
  • Stollen
  • Wedding Cake
  • Pickled Cucumbers
  • Pink and White Vanilla Marshmallows (perfect for Mother’s Day or birthdays)
  • Lollipops
  • Raspberry and Rose Chocolate Wafers (too beautiful to even talk about)
  • Greek Honey Cookies
  • Candied Citrus Peel
  • Apple Jelly
  • Mint Jelly
  • Hot Chili Pepper Jelly
  • Strawberry and Vanilla Preserves
  • Cherry Jam
  • Raspberry and Passion Fruit Pastilles
  • Love Heart Sugar Cubes (PERFECT for Valentine’s Day – they look like candied sugar hearts – the kind with words printed on them)
  • Pesto
  • Chocolate and Hazlenut Spread (Homemade Nutella? I’m all int!)
  • English Muffins
  • Sea-Salted Caramels
  • Peanut or Macadamia Brittle
  • Tortellini with Roasted Butternut Squash, Spinach, and Ricotta
  • Pickled Beets
  • Chocolate Truffles
  • Spiced Cranberry Jelly
  • Biscotti
  • Spiced Nuts
  • Herbal Teas
  • Pecan Snowball Cookies
  • Shortbreads
  • And even more!

In the back of the book, the author has listed different occasions – along with the recipes that would be ideal for each. The occasions include:

  • Mother’s Day
  • Father’s Day
  • Valentine’s Day
  • Easter
  • Housewarming
  • Baby Shower
  • Birthday
  • Bachelorette Party
  • New Year’s Day
  • House Guest
  • Christmas

You could easily add:

  • Grandparent’s Day
  • Secretary’s Day
  • Boss’s Day
  • Game day
  • Tailgating
  • Anniversary
  • Graduation

Then again, since when do we even need an occasion to bake beautiful treats for our loved ones? I baked two beautiful pies last night and the occasion was “On Account” – On account of wanting to see everyone’s faces light up when they came through the door and smelled (and saw) Apple and Cherry Pies greeting them.  This gorgeous cookbook and gift guide is FILLED with “On Account” recipes!

See Gifts from the Kitchen: 100 Irresistible Homemade Presents for Every Occasion for more information. Fellow foodies, this is one you’ll want to order today.  It’s beautiful.

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Mother’s Day Lemon Cookies Recipe

April 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment

With the Cutest Cookie Cutters Of All Time!

Mothers Day Cookie Cutters from Ann Clark

Mother’s Day Lemon Cookies

Yield: Makes about 18 cookies

Process together in a food processor about 15 seconds:
2/3 cup sugar
1 tablespoon freshly grated lemon zest


Beat with an electric mixer:
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
Lemon Sugar (from above)

Add and mix:
1 large egg
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Whisk together, then add and beat to incorporate:
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt

Wrap dough in plastic wrap and chill until firm. Preheat oven to 350º. Roll dough out on a lightly floured counter to 1/4-inch thickness and cut, then transfer cookies onto cookie sheets that have been lined with parchment paper or silicone liners. Bake 8 to 10 minutes, until very lightly browned around the edges. Let cookies cool slightly on cookie sheets, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

Decorate, if desired, before serving.

Lemon Icing
Melt 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, mix with 3 cups confectioners’ sugar, 4 tablespoons fresh lemon juice, and a pinch salt until smooth.

The ADORABLE cookie cutters shown at the top of the post are from Ann Clark – they’re only a sampling of the amazing cookie cutters you can find on the site. These cookie cutters are IDEAL for Mother’s Day and could be just as perfect for other times of the year:

  • Snacks for Emmy parties – or any award show
  • Birthdays
  • Church functions
  • Gifts for teachers
  • Snacks for watching Miss America or other pageants

If you’re half the cookie monster I am, you’ll want to bookmark Ann Clark.  There’s no reason to look for cookie cutters anywhere else. Trust me, you’ll find things you never even thought of!

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Sour Cream Fruit Dip

April 8, 2011 By 3 Comments

This is so Extraordinary, You'll Eat the Plate

Chrome Fruit Bowl

If you’re trying to get your kids, husbands, or self to eat more fruit, I have the solution and it’s delectable.  This extraordinary fruit dip is beyond delicious.  It kind of tastes like lemony sweetened condensed milk.

Except better.

While this sauce would be sensational drizzled over pound cake (or anything for that matter), he’s simply breathtaking when he hang out near the fruit bowl.  You can either make your favorite fruit salad and serve the sauce drizzled on top or you can put it in individual bowls and serve alongside apple slices, strawberries, kiwi, bananas, pineapple wedges, and so on.

Try it this weekend, it’ll rock your world.

Sour Cream Fruit Dip Recipe

1/2 cup butter or margarine (I use I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter)
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

Using an electric mixer, beat butter and powdered sugar at medium speed until smooth. Add the sour cream, vanilla, and lemon juice. Beat until creamy. Cover and chill until ready to serve.

This amazing dip would also be fantastic served on top of a bowl of sliced peaches or pears. Speaking of peaches, try this sometime:  Slice fresh peaches into individual serving bowls.  Pour a little heavy cream or half and half over the peaches then sprinkle a bit of cinnamon on tops. Ridiculously good.

The Progressive International Chrome Wire Fruit Bowl pictured at the top of the post is from Amazon and it couldn’t be prettier, even if it you taped a picture of Halle Berry on the side.

Filed Under: Dips and Sauces, Dishes, Fruit Recipes, Quick and Easy Recipes, Spring Favorites, Summertime Favorites Tagged With: , , ,

Spring Cleaning With Items from the Pantry

March 29, 2011 By 1 Comment

Green Cleaning at It's Best

Flowers

 

Spring, glorious spring, how I’ve missed your beautiful face!  This season is almost perfect (the only thing standing between it and perfection is seasonal allergies… not a lot of fun).  As a sports fan, I love March Madness (Go UK Wildcats!!) and as a baseball fan, I LITERALLY count the days to opening day and anticipate cheering on my St. Louis Cardinals for months to come.

As a bird watcher, lover, and feeder extraordinaire, I get positively giddy when I see the population explode in our trees and at our feeding stations.   And the flower, herb, and vegetable gardener in me is simply dying to get at it.

Another spring tradition is spring cleaning.  I delivered the cold news to my closets yesterday – they’re about to get hit and get hit hard.  I had spring cleaning on my mind (somewhere between thoughts of dying my hair blue for UK’s next game and thoughts of daffodils, gladiola, and marigolds).  I thought it was incredibly ironic when I opened my e-mail and had a newsletter from Nielsen-Massey Vanillas with Spring Cleaning in the subject line.  The information is priceless and the thought of filling my home with the aroma of vanilla is something I can’t resist.  It’s actually one of the scents I use in our home – along with lavender.   I thought I’d share excerpts of the newsletter with you, as spring cleaning is probably on you mind, too – though I doubt blue hair shares mental space.

Spring cleaners may be surprised to learn that the same ingredients that help with cooking can help with cleaning too. Kitchen pantries are full of items such as vanilla, eggs and vinegar that can remove tough dirt and dust, or give a warm,fresh scent.

“Using foods directly from your home is an easy, chemical-free method to clean a healthy home,” said Mary Findley, veteran cleaning expert and author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Green Cleaning, 2nd Edition. “It is also a great and effective way to jump start green cleaning habits.”

Nielsen-Massey Vanillas, the makers of quality pure vanilla and flavor extracts, has a variety of spring cleaning tips to freshen homes with flavorful ingredients straight from the kitchen.

A few tips include:

  • •Saturate a cotton ball in vanilla and drop it in the vacuum or vacuum bag to release a sweet scent (a tip I personally swear by).
  • A vanilla drenched cotton ball can also deodorize the refrigerator or freezer (another tip I love!).
  • To remove a coffee stain from fabric, dip a white cloth into a beaten egg yolk and rub the yolk into the stain. Then rinse with water.
  • After cleaning the refrigerator add a dash of lemon extract to the rinse water for a fresh scent.
  • Place vanilla beans in drawers, under car seats and in laundry rooms to act as an air freshener.
  • Placing a bowl of vinegar in an open room will absorb smoke odor.
  • Use club soda or seltzer water to clean chrome on faucets, utensils, etc.

 

About Nielsen-Massey Vanillas:
Throughout its more than 100 year history, Nielsen-Massey Vanillas has earned its reputation as a manufacturer of the finest extracts in the world. The full line of Nielsen-Massey’s Pure Vanilla products include: Vanilla Beans and Extracts from Madagascar, Tahiti and Mexico; sugar and alcohol-free Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Powder; Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Bean Paste; Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Sugar and Certified Organic Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Extract and Beans.  To read more about Nielsen-Massey Vanillas, click the link.

Why am I craving vanilla ice cream now?

Do you have any favorite cleaning tricks of the trade using kitchen items? Share them with us in the comments!

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Wonka Candy Just in Time For Easter

March 22, 2011 By 1 Comment

Get Those Easter Baskets Ready!

Wonka Sweetarts Jellybeans CarrotAs someone with a head full of sweet teeth, I recently hit the mother-load. Wonka Candy sent me a goody bag filled with outrageously delicious candy to review on Get Cooking and I love them dearly for it. The candy had an adorable Easter theme, so for those of you who will soon be filling Easter baskets, pay close attention.

First of all, here’s one you’ll want o pocket – as in, don’t put these in any Easter Baskets, you’ll just take them right back out. Wonka Exceptionals Scrumdiddlyumptious Chocolate Eggs are as delicious to eat as they are fun to eat. Cute candy shouldn’t have such a Heavenly chocolate flavor, right? That intense chocolate goodness should be saved for the high brow bars wrapped in shiny foil. I guess someone forgot to tell Wonka.

Thank goodness.

The Wonka Exceptionals Scrumdiddlyumptious Chocolate Eggs are milk chocolates shaped like Easter eggs. Oh, but get this – Wonka has more up his sleeve. These milk chocolate eggs are teaming with delicious toffee, crispy cookie, and crunchy peanuts. When I first bit into one, I immediately looked down at the remaining egg in my hand – to see what made it so extraordinary. I was expecting a chocolate egg, with nothing but chocolate (which would have been delightful as well), but then I got this amazing surprise of crunchy deliciousness. When I looked down, I saw the culinary culprits – toffee bits, peanuts and cookie crisps.

Are you registering just how delicious these eggs are? If so then you know what I mean when I say don’t let the Easter Bunny put these in any baskets – keep them for your private stash.

Also delicious are the flavorful and adorable Wonka Springy Double Yummy Gummies. The flavors are orange (represented by a duck), yellow (represented by a sheep), and strawberry (you guessed it, a pink bunny). These are stupid good. My youngest daughter is madly in love with them and wants to stockpile them for the entire year. I thought she was kidding until I saw the look of determination in her eye. I think I’d better take her seriously.

These are extremely good and so cute I can’t even describe it. These little guys have the fruity gumminess you’d expect PLUS a little fluffy marshmallow surprise. You can’t have Easter without at least a little marshmallow.

Wonka is just outdoing himself this Easter. Look in the candy aisle of your favorite store for these candies PLUS Wonka Gobstoppers (a personal favorite – I dig out all the reds and grapes… drives everyone crazy, but I just Wonka Sweetarts Jellybeans Easter Candysay, “Beat me to it and they’re your’s” – I’m a loving mother but I take no prisoners when it comes to candy.), and Wonka Sweetarts Jellybeans. The Jellybeans are bright and colorful and more delicious than you remember jelly beans being.

They have some packages of orange jellybeans shaped like giant carrots. I had one sitting in an Easter Basket on the table right in front of an adorably Ty rabbit. It lasted a few days – until one of the suspects (my sources say it was daughter #2) couldn’t resist temptation any more. The rabbit never saw it coming.

The orange jellybeans aren’t just cute when they join forces to make the carrot, they’re actually delicious – with a distinct orange flavor.

When it comes to making Easter and spring cupcakes, cookies, and cakes – you’ll want to grab a few of these bags to have on hand for decorations.  I love to ice sugar cookies and use jellybeans to create a border.  The same approach makes some pretty darn cute cupcakes, too.

Don’t wait for Easter Sunday to enjoy all of these Wonka treats – make the season last as long as possible by enjoying them now. Do like I’ve done and create a big Easter Basket filled with them on your dining room table, complete with bunnies, chicks, and “grass.” You might need to set up a surveillance camera, though.

Especially if you invite anyone in my family over.

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Kitchen Gadget of the Day: Groovy Pop Molds

March 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Make Your Own Popsicles

Make Your Own Popsicles with pop molds

Mere hours into Spring and I have summer fun on my mind. I guess I can’t help it – it’s just how I roll…. FAST!

No doubt you’re loving this beautiful weather as much as I am. That’s one of the things I love most about Kentucky, we get 4 distinct seasons with varied weather.  It keeps things interesting and fun.  Having said that, the weather doesn’t have to be in any great hurry to cool off on my account.  I’d forgotten how wonderful 80 degrees felt.  Winter’s first batch of chili, summer’s first grilled burgers, spring’s first coconut cake, and autumn’s first sweet potato pie – few things are ever as delicious!

For today’s Kitchen Gadget or Tool of the day, I thought it’d be appropriate to get us ready for the warm days that are making their way toward us even as we speak.  The Yellow Groovy Pop Molds shown above look like months of lick licking fun! (Product Features Below)


Product Features

  • Set of six yellow Groovy pop molds with custom base; measures 7 by 5 by 8 inches
  • Crafted of durable plastic for years of fun icy treats
  • Fill with kids’ favorite juice flavors and freeze
  • Innovative design allows removal of pops one at a time
  • Handles feature built-in sticks and drip guards

Click the following link for more information: Yellow Groovy Pop Molds

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Beautiful Lenox Butterfly Meadow Mugs and Dishes

March 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Talk About a Breath of Spring!

Butterfly Mugs

I’ve madly loved butterflies for as long as I can remember.  I can’t explain it, and I have no idea where it stems from, but whenever I see a butterfly, I think, “Somewhere right now, a miracle is happening.”

I honestly don’t know when this association came about but I do know it was alive and well when I was in high school.  I loved butterfly earrings, necklaces, bracelets, notebooks, and so on.  Like now, I loved seeing so many “miracles” around me.  Who wouldn’t?

Truth be told, I don’t even care WHERE it came from, I just care where I can find my next butterfly.

The Lenox Butterfly Meadow Mugs, Set of 4 shown at the top of the post has provided me with the beautiful answer.

These mugs are just gorgeous and, for me, they’re a can’t miss – not only do I collect butterflies, I collect coffee mugs. Something else I love is how much they make you think of spring and summer – I’m more than a little ready for both, so that’s right up my alley.

Product Features

  • Set of 4 mugs measuring 3-5/8 inches tall each
  • Lenox fine porcelain construction with scalloped rims
  • Nature-inspired patterns depict assorted butterflies and pastel bands
  • Safe for use in the microwave, dishwasher, and oven
  • Satisfaction-guarantee full-refund/replacement policy

These aren’t the only butterfly beauties fluttering about on Amazon.  Look at the other gorgeous dishes in the collection below. Hmmm, wonder if my family would be interested in shopping early (very early) for Mother’s Day?

Lenox Butterfly dessert plates

Lenox Butterfly Meadow Dessert Plates, Set of 4

Product Features

  • Set of 4 Butterfly Meadow dessert plates; 8-inch diameter
  • Crafted of Lenox white porcelain with 4 different pastel borders
  • Petal-like scalloped edges create a pretty effect
  • Each features a different realistic butterfly in a white center
  • Safe for use in the dishwasher, microwave, and oven; lifetime breakage warranty

Lenox Butterfly Meadow Dessert Bowls

Lenox Butterfly Meadow 8-Ounce Dessert Bowls Set of 4

Product Features

  • 4- 8-Ounce dessert bowls
  • Crafted of Lenox fine porcelain
  • Part of the number one quality casual pattern by Lenox. Based on the artistry of Louise Le Luyer
  • Microwave, dishwasher and oven-to-table-safe
  • 4-3/4-Inch in diameter ; 8-Ounce in capacity

Lenox Butterfly Meadow fruit dishes

Lenox Butterfly Meadow Colors Fruit Dishes, Set of 4

Product Features

  • 4-piece set of Butterfly Meadow Colors fruit dishes; 5-1/4-inch diameter
  • Crafted from fine porcelain with delicate motifs and a summery palette
  • Design includes a different border color and central butterfly on each piece
  • Coordinates with extensive Butterfly Meadow dinnerware and décor collection
  • Safe in microwave and dishwasher; matching plates and mugs also available

Whether you collect butterflies or you simply love to surround yourself with beautiful things, the Lenox Butterfly Meadow dishes are something you’ll definitely want to invest in. Click through any of the links or gorgeous images.

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