About Me
First and foremost, I LOVE to cook! When I got married, I didn’t know how to cook anything but chocolate chip cookies. I learned along the way and everyone always raves over my cooking so I must be doing something right 
This blog will just be about regular day to day cooking. If you are looking for gourmet, you won’t find it here. If you are looking for pretentious food, you won’t find it here. What you will find is a foodie that loves to cook and the recipes that I make every day for my family.
Few of these recipes on my blog are original. If I have the source, I state it. I am not claiming that any of these are mine when they are not. With that out of the way…
My DH is retired military so we have moved a bit and I learned to cook whatever, wherever. We have two adult kids who still come for my cooking.
UPDATE ~ I gave up my hosting on Food.com (was Recipezaar). I felt the site was going in a direction I didn’t care for so giving it up was the right thing for me to do. I still have loads of recipes posted there! My screen name is Lvs2Cook and I have around 800 some recipes posted over there ~ some I will be posting here and some I won’t be. I hope you’ll visit me there.
Last year we had our kitchen redone and now I have the kitchen of my dreams. Everyday I walk in there and think that it looks like a magazine. Here are some pictures:
I spend lots of time in there as you can imagine. The pictures are all cut off on the right side so when I resize them, I will repost them ~ but you get the idea for now.
I also collect cookbooks and at last count have around 1200. I don’t count them anymore, LOL.
I will be adding pictures to posts as I go along and I hope you will enjoy the recipes I post ~ I have TONS of them, LOL! I will also be posting menus of parties and events we host ~ with the recipes or links to the recipes.
Please let me know what you think ~ my email is girard.nancy at yahoo dot com.
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Ankit | March 23, 2013 at 8:27 am
Hey,
Congratulations, I have nominated you for the ‘Lovely blog Award’
Claim it here-> http://gypsyfoods.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/happy-birthday-celebrating-with-awards/
Keep up the blogging,
Good Luck
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Nancy @ A Recipe A Day | March 23, 2013 at 10:26 am
Wow! Thank you!
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thoughtsncake | July 28, 2012 at 8:37 am
Dear I nominated you for the versatile blogger award
http://thoughtsandcake.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/ritz-crackers-daring-bakers-challenge-july-2012/
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nancycg56 | July 28, 2012 at 4:03 pm
Wow ~ thank you!
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Kathi | June 2, 2012 at 11:37 am
Okay, well I posted my last comment in the wrong place. Duh… I thought I was on the Fresh Strawberry Muffin post. Sorry! ♥
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nancycg56 | June 2, 2012 at 12:49 pm
No problem
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Kathi | June 2, 2012 at 11:35 am
Hi! I wanted to make some fresh strawberry muffins for breakfast this morning to use up some strawberries I picked yesterday. I chose to use your recipe and wanted to say that the muffins are wonderful. Thanks for sharing the recipe! Also, your blog is very nice! I would like to post a pic of my muffins on my own blog and link my readers to your recipe. I just wanted to aks your permission before doing so… pretty please? ♥
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nancycg56 | June 2, 2012 at 12:50 pm
Sure, please feel free to do so! Thank you so much for asking!!!
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Ankit | May 25, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Beautiful kitchen, and I love your recipes.
And Congratulations!
You have been nominated for ‘one lovely blog award’
http://gypsyfoods.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/woohoo-three-months-young-and-my-first-blogger-award/
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Doug | January 17, 2012 at 2:16 pm
re eggnog quick bread recipe: 1 3/4 sugar…is that 1 3/4 cup or what?
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nancycg56 | January 17, 2012 at 3:09 pm
Yes, it’s 1 3/4 cups sugar. Thank you for pointing it out ~ all the times I’ve looked at that recipe and never noticed…yikes!
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Rosanne Madsen | November 3, 2011 at 12:45 pm
How do we go about entering for the cookbook give-aways?
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nancycg56 | November 3, 2011 at 1:41 pm
When I am having a giveawy, I will make a new post announcing it and any rules involved. Right now I don’t have any going on but I am expecting a couple in the near future
I hope you will sign up at that time!
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Rosanne Madsen | November 3, 2011 at 11:41 am
I forwarded your web-site to a friend. She said she could eat one of your pictures “right now.” I said, “a picture used to be worth a thousand words, but on this web-site, it’s worth zero calories!” I look forward to trying your recipes. Thanks in advance!!!!
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baker boxes | August 3, 2011 at 12:02 pm
Very nice site. I just finished mine and I was looking for some design ideas and you gave me a few. May I ask you whether you developed the page by youself?
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nancycg56 | August 4, 2011 at 12:40 pm
I used a wordpress theme and added some things to make it mine.
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Kudz | May 4, 2011 at 2:19 pm
I stumbled on this blog whilst looking for a recipe for strawberry muffins and after having gone through the rest of the blog, I am really glad I have found it.
This is a magnificent gem with so much variety and I love the fact that everything is fairly simple to make. I have gotten wonderful complements from the few recipes I have tried off of here. Really love all the recipes and keep up the great work.
PS You have a kitchen to die for!
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Curly J | April 7, 2011 at 12:05 pm
Wow.. I love your kitchen! It must make cooking/baking so much fun =)
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nancycg56 | April 10, 2011 at 11:18 am
I love it and spend most of time in there
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Rich | February 19, 2011 at 5:08 am
Serious kitchen envy…but mostly I ould love that double oven.
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nancycg56 | February 19, 2011 at 11:14 am
Moving around so much (military family) I have had to work in some seriously awful kitchens. The double oven is my favorite thing, too!
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midnitechef | February 3, 2011 at 1:30 pm
OK, I now have kitchen envy! No wonder you like to spend time in there
I found your blog through another one I read, yours will be added to my list of subscriptions! I, too, love to cook and bake and I collect cookbooks. Food Network and Canadian Living Magazine are things we should never be without 
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nancycg56 | February 3, 2011 at 2:53 pm
Our kitchen redo is 4 years old this week and I love as much as I did when it was just finished!
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thoughtsappear | December 23, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Wait…there’s more to cooking that chocolate chip cookies? Nooooo!
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Julie Forslev | November 7, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Your kitchen is MY dream kitchen! Beautiful!!
I have hundreds of cookbooks myself, and have a tough time storing them. I am wondering if you could share how you store 1200 cookbooks! Thank you!
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Brooke | May 24, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Your kitchen is beautiful. It looks like something out of a design magazine and it is sooooo clean. Please tell me it sometimes gets messed up and that you don’t do all your dishes after every meal ! And that you actually have stuff on your counters.
I feel so messy and out of control after seeing yours.
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nancycg56 | May 25, 2010 at 10:00 am
Those pictures were taken right after it was finished and the company that did it was coming out to take pictures of it. It rarely looks like that, LOL! In fact, it’s pretty messy right now
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Sheila Kiely | March 8, 2010 at 12:03 pm
WOW. Am so jealous of all the shiny appliances and surfaces. My oven is almost 11 years old and is making funny whirring noise on start up and sometimes no sound at all. Like my computer I turn it off and on again and miraculously it comes to life. One of these days however that’s not going to happen so I would be interested to hear what make your oven is i.e. manfuacturer and how you rate it?
Thanks
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nancycg56 | March 8, 2010 at 1:40 pm
It’s a GE Profile and I love it! I’ve used for about 3 years now and havent had a single problem with it. The top is a convection and regular oven and the bottom is a regular oven. The only negative is the timer ~ the timer works perfectly but the sound it makes when the time is up I can barely hear. Of course, that may be more my problem than the oven’s problem, LOL! I would highly recommend the oven!
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Mary@CookEatShare | March 2, 2010 at 4:08 pm
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Cindy | November 10, 2009 at 5:27 pm
You have a dream kitchen.
I would love to have that in my house it is beautiful!!
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Irene | October 28, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Hi Nancy,
Do you accept link exchanges? I am interested in exchanging links with your blog.
Thanks!
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nancycg56 | November 2, 2009 at 6:36 pm
I would love to exchange links!
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Belle Jones | July 27, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Key Lime Cake recipe – WHAT SIZE BAKING PAN to one use?
Thanks. Bellle
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nancycg56 | July 27, 2009 at 10:26 pm
It uses a 13 x 9 pan.
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Sherry Dale | April 23, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Nancy, I love your kitchen! I remodeled mine over 8 years ago with granite and finally all stainless steal appliances. I made my husband pipe in gas so I could have a gas stove and spend a majority of my time in the kitchen too. We put up the new cabinets ourselves and it does look like a professional job. The granite is wonderful for rolling out doughs, it has held up so nicely.
Your roll recipe is absolutely the best I have ever had. I’m just now getting into baking with the bread machine and producing wonderful loaves of bread, cinnamon rolls, etc. BTW if anybody wants that recipe, it is better than Cinnabons
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RecipeGirl | March 30, 2009 at 11:29 am
Hi Nancy, Your blog is wonderful. I have added you to my “blogs of note” at http://www.Recipegirl.com/blog, but I have you in an ‘unknown location’ category. (I have them arranged geographically). If you would like to be moved to your appropriate geographical location (by state or country outside of US), please contact me to let me know! Thanks
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Susan | February 22, 2009 at 11:53 am
Wow – gorgeous kitchen. Jealous!!
Any chance that kitchen is in VA?? I am looking for VA Foodie bloggers – stop by my blog if you have a sec for the details – Gosh, I would LOVE to have YOU on the list!!
http://www.doughmesstic.com
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nancycg56 | February 22, 2009 at 2:29 pm
I sent you an email. Susan
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khunying | January 21, 2009 at 12:23 am
I really like your blog and recipes. I linked your blog in this directory.
Your readers and fans can vote for you by giving you a star here. Thank you for sharing.
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khunying | January 21, 2009 at 12:06 am
I love your kitchen very nice. thank you for sharing.
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Linda | December 16, 2008 at 10:36 pm
How neat! You really have great taste!!! I had my kitchen remodeled last year and you and I have the same granite countertops. But, I have Italian Creme-colored cabinets and chocolate brown walls. My oven is also a convection and so is my microwave. Isn’t it wonderful to have plenty of room to cook. I love to cook also, but I have a problem with having to wait on special holidays for something to come out of the oven in order to get something else in. Now I can do regular baking and convection at the same time. And, isn’t the hardwood wonderful!!!!!!!
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Louella | November 13, 2008 at 10:08 am
hi nancy! omg, i can sleep in your kitchen. i just had mine renovated recently, too, but it doesn’t come close to yours – especially when we’re comparing size! luckily my husband helps around the kitchen, too, and also wants to entertain while in the kitchen. i think every wife who loves to cook should be rewarded with their dream kuchen. long live the foodies!!!
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travelingwilbury | November 4, 2008 at 8:14 pm
1200 cookbooks! Wow! I thought that 400 odd cookbooks were too many… Thanks for proving me wrong LOL
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nicole | October 14, 2008 at 9:26 am
Hi!
I wanted to say how thankful I am for your reviews of my recipes on recipezaar (chef # 880681)! I feel honored that you enjoy my recipes! I love your site! Great recipes! love the personal touch! Keep it up!
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Susan (A Happy Heart at Home) | August 20, 2008 at 9:23 pm
What a beautiful kitchen! Gorgeous! My husband would love that rack full of sauces.
~Susan
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natalia | August 5, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Ciao ! what a kitchen ! I’ve just joined twd and yours is the first blog I visit to get an idea of hoe to write about our bakes. my bnana cake is still in the oven but smells delicious ! ciao !
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Al Malekovic | July 9, 2008 at 6:13 pm
We are a very very small company Country Bobs INc. and we make a Great Sauce ” Country Bobs All Purpose Sauce”. Some told me that I should contact bloggers to see if they would try Country Bobs and blog about it. Please email me your name and address and I would like to send you two bottles with a recipe brochure to try and blog. Thanks for your time and consideration and any advice you can give me! Al Malekovic http://www.countrybobs.com
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Teresa | July 6, 2008 at 4:35 pm
OMG! Your kitchen is to die for. It’s beautiful. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star…the first star I see tonight I’m going to wish for a kitchen just like yours. Thanks for visiting my blog Nanacy AND for the award nomination. You’re a love. (I love your site)
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joejhorn | July 1, 2008 at 1:50 am
Hey Nancy, thanks for coming over to my blog today. It seems like you and I have a ton in common. I look forward to sharing some recipes, stories and some blog readers. Have a great one. I wish I had you kitchen, even though I own a restaurant, I still have a single oven in my kitchen. hahah
Joe
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FoodJunkie | June 14, 2008 at 8:47 am
Fancy kitchen, good thing you cook in it too!