I promised you a recipe for the Dark Mint Chocolate French Macarons that I made for the The Best Holiday Cookie Swap Ever. If you’re going to make these, I would recommend making them the day before or the morning of your event so that you have time to do all the various steps and [...]

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You spend a lot of time interacting with people, on their blogs, on Twitter, listening to their ups and their downs, their triumphs, their fun moments, their cries for help. You support them and work with them together for causes, and you fall down on your knees when you lose one of them. And even [...]

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I have a lot of family in San Diego, and inevitably I will spend at least a part of my vacation down in SD, which I love. This summer during my stay I had the pleasure to meet up with another food blogger I had been talking to online for a while: Susan from Food [...]

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I’m so pleased to be able to feature a recipe from Anita Chu a.k.a. Dessert First and her cookbook “Field Guide to Cookies: How to Identify and Bake Virtually Every Cookie Imaginable” I’m part of a special group of bloggers that are giving you readers a special inside look into Field Guide to Cookies this [...]

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So, yesterday was my birthday. If you noticed the number on last year’s birthday cupcakes, you’ll know what year it is for me (don’t make me say it!) I want to give a big shout-out to everyone who sent me messages and left wishes on my Facebook wall (is the new ecard?) – I feel [...]

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