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The Top 10 Posts of 2010

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As I’ve struggled to decide on what to write about for my last post of 2010, I reflected back over the year—the many posts I’ve written, the experiences I’ve had, and the many wonderful people I’ve been fortunate to meet in real life from the blogging world.  My life has been truly blessed and enriched […]

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Pillsbury Crescents Ambassador + Greek Salad Pizza

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Months ago I saw a call in one of Pillsbury’s newsletters for the opportunity to become a Pillsbury Crescents Ambassador.  I thought, “Why not? I’ve always loved Pillsbury Crescents!”  So I went online and filled out the application, hit submit, and then promptly forgot about it.  About a month later, on June 14th, I got […]

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Going Bananas (Splits) For A Cause, Part 2

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. . . continued . . . When we went into the other room, Kelly Ripa was waiting for us on the Electrolux banana split set, as well as Stephen Bruce, the owner and founder of Serendipity 3, and Kevin Scott, the president and CEO of Electrolux. Kevin Scott introduced Electrolux’s new stand-alone refrigerator and […]

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Banana Splits in NYC

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The next couple of weeks are going to be crazy for our family.  On Thursday I’m going to be flying to Tokyo to meet up with Mr. Fuji who has been in Japan for the past week and a half on a business trip.  I am so excited to go, because I haven’t been back […]

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Dishin’ In The Kitchen With Mac

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After a wonderful week in Cancun, Mexico, I am back home!  We had a wonderful trip filled with some adventure, and lots of this. You’ll be hearing more about my trip later in the week, but I need some time to finish unpacking, cuddle my girls, and recover from the unfriendly little bug that I […]

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A Weekend in the Woods—Camp Blogaway May 2010

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What do you get when you let 70 food bloggers loose in the woods? No, that’s not the start of a bad joke, but it was the situation at Camp Blogaway—a food blogging conference held this past weekend at a camp in the San Bernardino mountains here in Southern California.  If you went to Camp […]

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Bake Sale Recap—Daylon’s Run/Walk & Carnival

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I am still on a total high from this weekend!  This past Saturday was the big Run/Walk & Carnival to raise money for little Daylon. I spent last week trying to organize as many donations of home baked goods as possible for the bake sale booth, organizing volunteers for the booth, rounding up supplies for […]

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Meet Daylon—Help Make a Miracle Giveaway

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Meet Daylon. Daylon was born on July 8, 2009 with Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa (JEB) Herlitz type and was given less than a year to live.  He’s now 9 months old.  Daylon is my friend Jennifer’s little boy.  Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) is a connective tissue disease where the skin layers lack the protein anchors that hold […]

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National Food Blogger Bake Sale, Los Angeles Recap

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This past Saturday 26 different Food Blogger Bake Sales took place across the nation. I participated in the L.A. Food Blogger Bake Sale and what a day we had!  Squirrel and I joined forces to bake loaves of Amish White Bread for the sale and then I went solo on making Fuji Nana’s Deadly Chocolate […]

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National Food Blogger Bake Sale

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1st things first, I need to announce the winner of the Jamie’s Food Revolution Cookbook and assorted goodies!  Our trusty Random Number Generator picked comment #151: Comment #151 was Brian Lew!  Congrats Brian, I’ll be in touch today to get your info so that we can get your prize to you!  Now let’s keep the […]

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