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Sustaining the Powers

Tales From My Test Kitchen

Easter

No Bake Butterscotch Cookie Butter Bird Nests

April 3, 2015 by Steph Powers 2 Comments

Cookie Butter and butterscotch? No way! These bird nests are always a huge hit to make with the kids.

These fun Butterscotch Cookie Butter Bird Nests treats are made with creamy butterscotch morsels and craveable cookie butter that's poured over chow mein noodles and topped with candy eggs.  Yep, you read that correctly - butterscotch cookie butter bird nests. And they're no bake to boot! I put these together earlier this week for a small group treat, and wanted to put a fun twist on ...

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Filed Under: Holiday, Recipes, Simple, Sweets, Vegetarian Tagged With: Bird Nests, Butterscotch, Chow Mein Noodles, cookie butter, Easter, eggs, microwave

The Retro Re-pin Party Week 36 featuring Paper Lilies

March 31, 2015 by Steph Powers 10 Comments

It's Time to Retro Re-pin Party! This week has been a lot less eventful than the week before. The most exciting part was building a raised garden bed with my hubby in our front yard. We have a tiny backyard that's mostly deck and doesn't have much afternoon sun, so the front yard just makes more sense for a vegetable garden. Hopefully our neighbors in downtown Denver understand and don't ...

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Filed Under: Link Party, Retro Repin Tagged With: Easter, linkparty, linkup, paper lilies, pinterest, retrorepin

Tapenade Egg Salad

April 27, 2014 by Steph Powers 13 Comments

Tapenade Egg Salad

  If you're like me, you have a lot of Easter eggs left over from last weekend. I've been remixing them into everything and came up with this Tapenade Egg Salad you're all going to love. I know it's been a while since my last blog post, but I've been busy with a huge project at work and haven't had the time to put together a photoshoot. I've also been making a lot of tried and true favorites ...

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Filed Under: Gluten-Free, Recipes, Vegetarian Tagged With: Easter, easy, egg salad, eggs, Spring, tapenade

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I'm Stephanie. I'm an Austin, Texas native living in Denver, Colorado who blogs about my favorite Tex-Mex and travel-inspired recipe creations, food photography tech resources for bloggers. I want to make it easier for you provide sustenance to your family and show hospitality to others. Click here to learn more about me.

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