Category Archives: YaYa’s in the Kitchen





YaYa’s in the Kitchen: YoYo’s Cinnamon Rolls

YoYo’s in the Kitchen

You know how there are mornings when you wake up and just think how wonderful it would be to have a warm ooey gooey cinnamon roll?

This is our quick version which we make with white wheat flour, less sugar, more nuts, fruit and spices with no yeast required. YUM! 

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YaYa’s in the Kitchen: Summer Berry Crisp

 CrispCrumbleCobbler…Definitions may vary, but we can all agree each is delicious! After a reasonable amount of “research”, it seems that cobblers are easy to define and have wonderful puffy biscuit type topping. However the crumble and crisp definitions vary. Some say a crisp is the streusel type topping with oats and the crumble is without oats, some say it in reverse, and last some say a crumble is the UK version of our crisp, both typically with some combination of oats, nuts, and even seeds. We are not even approaching the buckle, brown betty, slump confusion here! 

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YaYa’s in the Kitchen: Key Lime Bars with Shortbread Crust

CELEBRATING SUMMER! As promised, I will be sharing recipes which you can easily prepare with your grand/children (no minimum age requirement), can be made with minimal supervision depending on each child’s age & “kitchen” experience, or if you are “sans” children, just for you! I have been baking & cooking, well let’s just say, for a long time. And I have incorporated this into my Speech-Language Pathology services since my early years as an SLP. So here goes, Recipe #2 prepared for a sweltering summer day, July 2015.

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YaYa’s in the Kitchen: Blueberry Chocolate Chip Brownies with Ganache

This recipe was the unofficial first entry of my YaYa’s in the Kitchen writings and was featured on this Center’s FB page before I officially started the Blog. Over the years, I have had many requests to share recipes and to begin a blog, so here goes…

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