by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on February 6, 2012
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The very same night that I made the itty bitty burgers, I made other tiny food as well. It was like cute overload over here! Last year, I donated 100 Cupcakes to the A to Z Literacy Movement’s annual fundraiser, and while they were well-recieved, there were tons left over. This year, I was asked [...]
Just a quickie post which really has nothing to do with food or dinner… but it does have to do with YOU. Thanks to all of your support through donations and the Online Flea Market, we raised, as a team, over $1600 for Pancreatic Cancer research! Our 5k was yesterday, and I walked it in [...]
You are all AMAZING! Thanks to all of your generosity, and the promise that the last few donations will come in the next couple of days, the Online Flea Market for Pancreatic Cancer raised…. **Drumroll Please*** $566!!!!!!!!!! I kind of can’t believe it! The 5K Run/Walk is next weekend, and my donation page is open [...]
by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on April 22, 2011
in friends
Bids are closed! Thank you all! Welcome one and all to the first annual Online Flea Market for Pancreatic Cancer Research! To help publicize this event, feel free to post, tweet, and Facebook about it, and you can grab this button as well to post on your blog: The rules for the Flea Market are [...]
“Gonna get to ya giiiiirrrrllll.” Yup. NKOTB. What’s it to ya? When I got home from work today, after a long cloudy day, the sun finally decided to come out for an hour before it started to set, so I actually had GLORIOUS light in my kitchen while I was cooking! I made up my [...]
by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on April 6, 2009
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IT‘S THE BIG DAY!!!! What big day? Meghann’s Blogger Bake Sale! I’ve donated 4 loaves of my delicious challah to the bake sale, and 2 sets of 2 of them will go to the highest bidder!! You even get to choose your seed topping (though traditional is poppy seed, sesame seed, or plain) or an [...]
Gonna eat a lot of peaches… (Presidents of the U.S.A. anyone?? Am I just that old?) Tonight’s dinner was a direct result of watching far foo much Food Network again. Adam and I caught an episode of Good Eats the other day where Alton Brown discussed the type of steak known as “cube steak”. We [...]
HAPPY FRIDAY!!! The first week back after break is always SUPER long, and the kids and teachers alike were beyond happy that today was Friday! After work today, I took a field trip to my favorite nail place and got my nails done… 2 of them have very cool racing-stripe-type designs on them now! I [...]
Welcome to the 5th installment of Cute Food Saturday! If you’ve missed any of the previous entries, check them out here, here, here, and here. I’ve been scouring the web for cute food pictures and was thrilled to find a couple (ok, more than a couple) at my friend Chocolate-Covered Katie’s blog! She is a [...]
It’s SUSHI FRIDAY!!! Adam and I were joined by my mom and stepdad for dinner at our 2nd favorite sushi place tonight, Hanabi. It’s in a northern suburb of Chicago, and a great place for us to meet up. We started with a (unpictured) seaweed salad with crab called Kani-su. It was seaweed, cucumbers, gourd, [...]