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Top 10 of 2010

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on January 1, 2011

in Baking, family

Yeah, I’m doing one too… why not? All the cool kids are doing it, and I’m one of the cool kids, right? The TOP 10 recipes and posts of 2010 as featured here on What’s For Dinner! #10: Pink Sparkly Meringue Cookies #9: Teriyaki and Sweet Potato Tower #8: Mini Cupcake Bites #7: African Peanut [...]

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The Latke Princess

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on December 7, 2010

in family, family recipe, friends, vegetables, vegetarian

Last year for Hanukkah, Adam and I headed out to my mom’s house, and I told you all about how she’s the latke queen. This year, instead of heading to my mom’s house for Hanukkah, we went instead to a wonderful Hanukkah party hosted by Adam’s mom and stepdad in Northwest Indiana and I was [...]

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Proving My Point With Chocolate

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on October 15, 2010

in Baking, friends

Last school year, I instructed you, my lovely readers, to be jealous of my coworker. It was my teammate Matt’s birthday and, due to my budding cupcake hobby, I made him some decadent (and as he said, heart-attack inducing) brownie cupcakes. He was the first person at work to get cupcakes made specifically for him, [...]

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Not What You Expected?

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on October 10, 2010

in Baking, beef

**VOTING IS NOW OPEN!!!** As soon as I read the prompt for FoodBuzz Project Food Blog Challenge #4, I was intimidated. The challenge prompted us to use photography to show the process of a recipe using photos, taking what could potentially be a complex recipe and breaking it down into steps using photography. I’m not [...]

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Irony

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on September 21, 2010

in beef, chicken/turkey, friends, simple recipe

***Thank you all again, for your votes for me on Project Food Blog! Voting ends on September 23!*** Back in high school, Lizz and I had a fairly out of control obsession with the song of the moment, as most high school girls do. However, this song wasn’t the “it” song by the cute boy [...]

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Classic

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on May 23, 2010

in Baking, friends, Photo Gigs

Every once in a while, my cravings get the best of me, and I indulge in whatever that “something” is that I wanted. Sometimes it’s a burger, sometimes something fried and sometimes it’s a childhood classic that nothing else can replace. Since there was next to nothing going on yesterday, rather than taking the easy [...]

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