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Breakfast on the go this morning – I was in a rush to get out the door!

Vanilla B’More smoothie with tart cranberry sauce

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And a slice of Apple Scrapple with sunbutter as toast

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Lunch was a split effort between Karen and me. She brought in BBQ sandwiches from the new Ace Biscuit & BBQ here in town. They opened this fall and serve pastured pork, biscuits and soul food for breakfast and lunch.

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I ate 2/3 of the BBQ sandwich, which was really, really delicious. The pork was tasty and I loved the Virginia-style BBQ sauce Karen picked out from the selections (Western Carolina style is hard to beat!) The Virginia sauce was thick and rice and had a hint of spice – like there was some apple cider involved.

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The best part of this sandwich was the fluffy grilled egg bun. So much better than a floppy white roll.

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I made salads for the green part of the lunch. Mixed greens with veggies and TJ’s white bean hummus.

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This went into the crockpot for dinner. A soup mix by Frontier, which we sell at the bakery.

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While the soup simmered away, Matt, Maze and I were busy drinking milk (Maze) and eating cookies (K+M) at the Beyond The Flavor cookie swap!

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Sarah, Andrea and Megan organized a gathering open to the public – come one, come all and bring cookies to share! The event was attended by an intimate crowd, and the cookies were all creative and delicious. I brought my bourbon balls and came home with a baggie filled with everything from peppermint meringues to coconut lime cookies provided by the host Paradox! Most of the recipes for the cookie swap will be posted on Beyond The Flavor soon.

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While we were there I also sipped on some decaf coffee

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I ate a few cookies at the party, so dinner was a mug of black bean soup with greens mixed in and Greek yogurt on top –

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And cookie tastes for dessert! I had a nibble…ok a bite… ok a BIG bite of every one. Favorites were Megan’s peppermint meringues and Anita’s double chocolate chunks with sea salt!

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  2. Yum. I keep reading about all of these cookie swaps…but don’t have any to go to myself. (Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.) 🙂

    I do think some cookie making is in order before the weekend, so I’ll have to look up some recipes. Any suggestions? I’m thinking about gingersnaps or something with chocolate…

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  12. The title of your post immediately made me think of Christmas as a kid setting out milk and cookies for santa. Are you excited for your first christmas with Mazen? Do you have any traditions you plan on carrying on with him or new ones that you’re excited about? I have two brand new nieces this year, and our family is beyond excited for christmas with them.

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  13. I would love to go to a good old fashioned cookie swap! I am always traveling in December and don’t do them, but gosh, now I want to. I also realllllly want to make your bourbon balls. They’ll still taste good in January 🙂

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  17. I’ve never been to a cookie swap, didn’t even know such thing existed. But that is so genius!
    I’ll definitely be baking some cookies this christmas again though!

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  27. I LOVE ACE BBQ WITH ALL OF MY FREAKING HEART. Girlfriend, why didn’t you eat the whole thing? Because you’re going to bring the rest to me today? That’s right, I’m coming walking today. No really, I am.

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  29. I love bbq and cookie swaps! SO basically, I am in love with this post! Also, I went to a bakery near my house and they dont make bread I was so sad. I need to find somewhere that makes awesome bread like the pictures you have!

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  30. I love how close you seem to be with your mother in law. She must love being so involved with seeing her grandson grow up.
    I am mum to one son and I hope I have such a close relationship with any possible future daughter in law!

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  31. Oh, it’s that time of year and life is too short – so take as many BIG bites as you want 🙂 I’m missing Christmas hard this year (away from home) so it’s nice to see a bit of traditions and cookie-swapping through your blog. Thanks 🙂

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  32. I love Christmas cookies. They are so exciting, especially unique flavors like the ones you got at your swap.

    This morning I made a dough smoothie in a bowl for the first time and it was DELICIOUS! So filling. I also had some coconut butter on top, also another first for me. One of my best breakfasts in a while!

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  38. I did a cookie swap this year, was very exciting. I did some cranberry/white choc chip cookies plus rocky road. Rocky road is not a cookie so was not sure if I was going “outside”the cookie rule…lol!

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