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Shirley Temple Cupcakes

Are you sick of cupcakes yet? I’m not! I’ve had Shirley Temples on the brain lately, if you hadn’t noticed based on my post last Friday. For today’s cupcake, I decided to make Shirley Temple inspired cupcakes. These are fun, and a definite kid pleaser. You can go all out and make them actually look […]

Potato Focaccia Cupcakes

We’re already on Day 3 of Cupcake Week, can you believe it?I think LollyChops (LC) deserves an extra round of applause for being ready for this week despite the fact that she’s having surgery this week to have her gallbladder (aka GallyChops) taken out–that is one determined lady, let me tell ya! I actually asked […]

Cupcake History 101

Happy Cupcake Week everyone! It is going to be such a great week. Lolly and I are co-hosting this week and have been working for the past several months getting ready (and probably gained several pounds). We hope you’re as excited about it as we are! This week will be filled to the bursting point […]

Mother’s Cookies Circus Animal Cookies are back!!!

I wasn’t planning on blogging today, but then a package appeared on my doorstep that changed my mind. The whole Fuji family has been so excited about this package, that I decided I’d have to share my excitement with you.Mother’s Cookies, a company based in Oakland, CA, that had been in business for 92 years […]

Homemade Shirley Temples (aka, How To Awaken Your Inner Kid)

I remember the first time I tasted a Shirley Temple. I was in the 7th grade and was eating at a restaurant called El Gato Gordo (The Fat Cat). It was an award luncheon for school and we were allowed to order whatever we wanted off of the menu, including drinks, and so I ordered […]

Beef & Broccoli Stir-fry With a Twist

The other day I picked up the May issue of Bon Appetit magazine.As I flipped through it, the title of a recipe caught my eye–Stir-Fried Beef, Broccoli, and Yams. Oh yum. The magazine explained that the recipe was taking the ever so popular Chinese dish of beef and broccoli and taking it up a notch […]

Furochic Winners!

The four winners of the Furochic reusable fabric gift wraps (picked by my trusty random number generator) are Semsavblanc, mushroommeadows, TheGourmetGirl, and Danica’s Daily. CONGRATS!! I’ll be contacting you later today for your addresses! Semsavblanc said, “One of the things I have been doing to be Earth friendly is I have stopped using plastic bags […]

Chocolate Chunk Nutella Cheesecake

Today is the posting day for this month’s Daring Bakers challenge. Of course being the airhead sleep-deprived mother-of-two that I am, I totally blanked on making this month’s challenge until I realized on Saturday that the end of the month was right around the corner. The April 2009 challenge is hosted by Jenny from Jenny […]

Calling all garlic lovers! 40 Clove Garlic Chicken

“Garlic used as it should be used is the soul, the divine essence, of cookery. The cook who can employ it successfully will be found to possess the delicacy of perception, the accuracy of judgment, and the dexterity of hand which go to the formation of a great artist.” — Mrs. W.G. Waters in ‘The […]

Exercising my (hopefully) green thumb.

I have loved Earth Week and am sad to see it end. It has been fun to focus on Earth inspired treats and ways to become more Earth friendly. I think I’ll be doing this again next year! I spent the morning out in our backyard doing some planting. (An appropriate activity to wind up […]

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