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How to Design your Own Fancy Whipped Cream
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. “You’ll never go back to plain vanilla whipped cream.” We tell people that all the time. It’s true. Let them taste caramel whipped cream....
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Pretty, Luscious, Easy Desserts from a Cake Mix
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. Every day is bake day at The Pantry. We bake, we test, and we share the good stuff with our customers in the store. We made cakes using...
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The Perfect Sunday Morning Breakfast
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The Best Way to Color Easter Eggs
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Colcannon, Irish Bread, and Saint Patrick’s Day
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. Once upon a time, I worked in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota. Saint Paul is an interesting city. More so than anywhere else I have lived,...
View ArticleHow to Make Carrot Cake Pancakes and Waffles with Almost Any Pancake Mix
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. Katie and her husband Josh are off to school, one more semester. Katie is a good cook. She morphed a pancake mix into carrot cake pancakes....
View ArticleMake Great Carrot Cake Four Ways: Includes recipe for Fluffy Cream Cheese...
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. We’ve made this carrot cake from a mix and served it often in our store. It’s a winner. Serve this in the store and people buy the mix....
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Quick and Easy Cathead Biscuits
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How to Make Crockpot Mashed Potatoes
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. Easter dinner was at our house this year. Three of our kids and their children were here. It was wonderful. Love my family. The food was...
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Of Trifles, Fools, and Parfaits
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Perfect Your Grilled Sandwich Technique
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. Tips for Making Great Grilled Sandwiches Melissa was a great baker in our test kitchen, the product of two culinary schools. Alas, she’s...
View ArticleHow to Cook the Perfect Steak—Every Time
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. Never go to the grocery store hungry. You buy too much. And the wrong things. I went last week, starving. They had sirloin steaks on...
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Two Easy Ways to Make Strawberry Pie
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The Importance of Cinnamon in Your Kitchen
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Berry Vanilla Custard Crepes
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Popping Popcorn in a Brown Paper Bag, Fun Popcorn Recipes, and More
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How to Pack for the First Road Trip of the Spring
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. Last weekend we took our first trip into the mountains of the spring. It wasn’t long, a three hour loop up to Mesa Falls, through Island...
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How Much Chocolate is Too Much Chocolate?
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. (Includes Favorite Chocolate Recipes and really good cocoa for $1.99) “How much chocolate can you put in a brownie before it’s too much...
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Three Ways to do Chocolate Covered Strawberries
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. I love strawberries at the peak of the season—juicy and sweet. But I’m also a chocoholic. So I look for opportunities to marry chocolate...
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How to Make Syrups for Pancakes and Desserts
To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE. (Includes an offer for two free buttermilk syrup mixes, an $8.98 value.) Back in my Venture Scout days, I would take boys on overnight...
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