I have a date this weekend with a bunch of friends I haven’t seen in almost a year. The first thing they asked me? “Do we get cupcakes?” What was I going to say, no? The only request was that they be chocolate. I could do that. Nothing like starting Phase 2 of South Beach [...]
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Happy 2012 to you all! I’m truly glad to have kissed 2011 goodbye, and am looking forward to what this next year will bring. Adam and I had a low-key New Years Eve with homemade cheese fondue, and I spent a good portion of the evening concocting this recipe. I got it set in my [...]
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For the last few years, Hanukkah has fallen during a fairly inconvenient time within the holiday season. Seriously, last year, Hanukkah was three days after Thanksgiving! Since the celebration of Hanukkah is a relatively minor holiday, and what we really like is the fun time with family, we’ve created “Nonukkah” or a “ninth night” when [...]
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I swear. I’m very much alive. And enjoying Hanukkah to the fullest!!
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It has been noted by many people that this holiday season seems to be the year of the snicker doodle. The word has been uttered on cooking shows, sitcoms, even commercials in which the mailman smells snickerdoodles in an elf house. The snickerdoodle is not a new concept to me in the least. My grandma [...]
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It’s a good day when, for no other reason than pure appreciation, a student decides to make up her own 8 days of Hanukkah so that she can treat me to 8 gifts before we leave for winter break. Yesterday, an army of hedgehog donut holes Their little faces stared up at me all day, [...]
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The last few days have been… “those” days. Since I got back from Milwaukee, I’ve had a cold, Adam’s been sick, there’s been stress at work… so tonight was a Take a box of Dunkin Hines cake mix (provided for me by the FoodBuzz Tastemaker program). Mix it with a can of pumpkin, divide into [...]
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I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day! We had the first of THREE Thanksgiving meals yesterday, and I’ve been excited to share these photos with you all since I took them! We met at Eo’s house in the early afternoon, and as always, were greeted with warm hugs and amazing smells coming from [...]
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