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The secret to this flavorful fall dessert isn't the Granny Smith apples―it's a can of Mountain Dew! The sugar in the soda adds the right amount of sweetness while the fizziness gives it lift.If you're wondering why Dr Pepper works so well in savory dishes like fall-off-the-bone ribs, Ree explains: "When it's cooked down, it's just a perfect mix of flavors."

Using root beer in the glaze for ham adds just the right amount of sticky sweetness to balance the salty pork. You don't have to wait for Easter or Christmas to try it either!What does Dr Pepper tastes like as a cupcake? Picture a mix of chocolate and cherries with a little sweet spice. This recipe uses the soda in both the cake and the frosting!By the name alone, you'd assume that beer is the only thing you can use to make this recipe work. But that's not the case! If you don't have beer, try cola, lemon-lime, or Dr Pepper.

Dr Pepper brings the sweetness while a can of chipotle peppers in adobo sauce brings the smokey heat. They cook low and slow to get every inch of that pork flavored perfectly.Grab a can of orange soda (Orange Crush or Fanta will do the trick) and make this twist on the classic 7-Up pound cake. You can add orange zest or extract to amp up the flavor, too.

Ree typically uses Dr Pepper (surprise!) to glaze her Easter ham. But you can also use a can of cola if you prefer. Either way, use the full sugar kind because that's what gets it all sticky and caramelized.

Just like her apple dumplings, making the peach version requires a can of soda to sweeten it up. Use Sprite, 7-Up, Mountain Dew, or whatever lemon-lime soda you have on hand.Describing that chat as a "lightbulb moment," Day says reframing the way she thought about failure changed how she saw the experience of fertility medicine. She took a break from IVF and ended up getting pregnant naturally, but had the first of three miscarriages at the end of the year in 2014.

"2014 was a really intense year, partly because as anyone who has done fertility treatment will know, it's like having another job," Day explains. "There are so many scans that you have to go to. There's so many drugs that you have to take. There's so much measuring and prodding that happens and you are constantly living with this state of ambivalence and ambiguity because it might work, but it might not. And you need to carry both ideas."She explains that even getting something like a positive pregnancy test, which is often a very happy thing for couples, carries weight to it when you're going through miscarriages and fertility treatments.

"There's this really difficult tension between all of your feelings because on the one side, you know you should feel uncomplicatedly ecstatic," Day says. "But on the other side, you know how fragile it can be. And if you've had a miscarriage, it robs you of any experience of a relaxed pregnancy.""Now that I've had three miscarriages, I also understand that it's a very nuanced type of grief because you are grieving an absence, but you are also grieving the dreams you had of a presence," she continues. "And that's a really hard thing to cope with."