I love to have a decorative theme that ties different elements of my party together. I’m not talking “everything has to be the exact same color and style”, but something subtle and sophisticated that pops up here and again. Besides the obvious candy theme, I created a graphic of multi-colored…
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Sweet Birthday Party
I’ve always loved birthday parties, especially my own. Usually my family flies out here to spend my birthday with me, but this year they had my younger cousin’s wedding and they had to postpone their trip. So, I decided to throw myself a party, and what better way to celebrate…
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Banana Bread with Coconut Brown Sugar Topping
Banana bread is one of my favorite quick and easy cakes to make when I’m going to have friends over for coffee, brunch or just when I have a bunch of over-ripe bananas. Last week my husband came home with a bag of ripe bananas that the supermarket next door was…
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Berry Layer Cake
I found an alluring berry layer cake recipe here months ago and always wanted try it out. When my girlfriends came for our weekly luncheon recently, I decided to use them as my guinea pigs, instead of my usual guinea pig, my lovely husband, and tried the recipe on them. Yes,…
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Fish and Chips ( shh…sweet potato fries)
Last week during the 2012 Olympics in London I was inspired to make a classic British recipe to watch the games with. Fish and chips is always on my list of things to eat when I’m visiting London, so I put a fun twist on this English classic. I went…
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What’s for…Dessert?
Bread Pudding with Chocolate Covered Raisins is my new favorite and simple dessert. I decided to add chocolate covered raisins to the classic recipe and a dash of Bailey’s Irish Cream in the fresh whipped cream to give it an indulgent flavor. Enjoy! *click photos to enlarge
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What’s for… Breakfast?
Oeuf en Cocotte is a fast and easy recipe and a perfect idea for breakfast when you have a lot people in your home. When making other egg dishes for breakfast, the dish is assembled after the egg is cooked; if you’re trying to serve everyone at once this makes…
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Quinoa Shrimp Salad
Quinoa is one of my favorite super foods. I always try to cook quinoa at least once a week. After a wonderful weekend with some good friends visiting from North Carolina, I had some leftover shrimp ceviche which I had cooked as an appetizer to serve our friends after their…
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What’s for… Dessert?
We had some friends over last Saturday for dinner and served these delicious ice cream sandwiches for dessert. They were a hit, incredibly easy to make, and with the right garnish you can make a simple ice cream sandwich look really fancy. You’ll need: Pizzelle cookies ( Cuisinart pizzelle press…
Homemade Nutella Popsicles
Last weekend I found this popsicle maker at TJMaxx, and after passing up a Zoku last summer in the same store, I could not ignore this $9.99 price and took it home. The weather is hot here in the East Coast, temperature as high as 107 today, and we didn’t…