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A COLLECTION OF MADE FROM SCRATCH, SEASONAL RECIPIES

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Some of my Favorite Spring Recipes

Hearty Chicken Noodle Soup

  Hearty Chicken Noodle Soup Got the blues? Cold outside? Feeling not quite yourself? This is the soup for you. It is the soup I make for my husband every time he’s down with a cold, and the one I pack up and deliver to friends who are under the weather or in...

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Holiday Peppermint Bark

  HOLIDAY PEPPERMINT BARK Peppermint Bark is the ultimate Christmas candy in my book, full of chocolate, white chocolate, and candy canes. . But holy cow! It can cost up toward $30 a pound in many stores. Many have decided to take the bull by the horns and...

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Hot Smoked Salmon

  Hot Smoked Salmon I’ll let you in on a little secret…of all the tons of appetizers I have made in my day; this is hands down the favorite of everybody. A lot of other smoked salmon recipes call for both a brine and a rub before smoking, but that just seemed...

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Ice Cream Pie with Strawberry Sauce

  Ice Cream Pie with Strawberry Sauce Here’s an idea for a cool, refreshing dessert that you can make ahead and bring out after your 4th of July barbecue, or for that matter any time you feel like it. Chocolate and strawberries are a classic combination, but...

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Italian Wedding Soup

  Italian Wedding Soup We have now officially entered the ‘comfort food and soup eating’ phase of Fall weather. I had heard about Italian Wedding Soup but never tasted it, so thought this might be a nice route to take. You may be interested to know that this...

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Hello. I’m Roberta Reynolds.

I’d like to welcome you to Bird’s Nest Bakery and Café, a collection of ‘made from scratch’, seasonal recipes developed in my home kitchen. Bird’s Nest Bakery and Café is not a structure – It’s a state of mind. It means that cooking and baking don’t have to be scary or intimidating, and that it’s easy to make foods in your own kitchen every bit as good or better than going out.

I hope you’ll find this site a welcome and relaxing place where you can come for inspiration and ideas. Take a look, have fun, and feel free to modify these recipes to suit your particular palate. Please feel free to share these recipes with friends and family. After all, cooking and baking are meant to be shared with those we care about. That’s what’s so much fun about it!