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I wanted to share with you a guest post I did for The Pioneer Woman over at Tasty Kitchen today. The recipe is one I re-made from one of the TK members for Hot Chocolate Triple Chocolate Chips. The recipe not only uses three different types of chocolate, it also uses several packets of hot chocolate. How very creative, don’t you think? So jump on over to the post for step-by-step photos of this great cookie!
Link: Hot Chocolate Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies
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If someone would have told me a few months ago I would fall in love with eating radishes with a small pat of butter dipped in truffle salt I would have thought they were nuts. But this is exactly what happened when eating at the Pike Brewery in the Pike Place Market. I was there with other food bloggers for a brewery tour and when we sat down to eat, there were whole radishes on a plate with truffle salt and butter. I was confused on how to eat the radishes so I waited to see what others were doing so I could follow their lead. Oh my word… where has this combination been all my life? Seriously.
Over the weekend my husband and I were at a bookstore and while thumbing through cookbooks, I encountered a recipe in one of the Lee Brothers cookbooks for radish butter. I guess I’m the last person to know eating radishes and butter together is common. And just so you know, I am new to truffle salts too. I was introduced to truffle salt earlier this year and have been obsessed with them ever since. [click to continue…]
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Dear Friends,
Yesterday I woke up to the most disheartening news. My good friend, Erika Pineda, a fellow food blogger and photographer was affected by a devastating fire which engulfed her home and all of her belongings to ashes. Fortunately for her and her family, everyone made it out with only the clothes on their backs. All their possessions including priceless family photos are gone. As a result, my friend Maggy and I started a website called Friends of Ivory Hut to raise awareness and support to assist them during these traumatic time. Here is what Erika wrote on her own blog….
Last night, my head was preoccupied with last minute work on a special project and putting the finishing touches on a post. My husband Tom and I had also been discussing the logistics of possibly attending BlogHer Food 2010 in San Francisco. These were the things that weighed on my mind.
A mere hour or so later—and instant, really—we were outside, in our shirts and shorts, watching our house crumble as it was engulfed in flames. I’ll never forget that hissing and crackling noise as my husband’s home of almost 30 years practically disintegrated before our eyes.
But we were safe. All of us. Our son Tim, without hesitation, ran back inside when he realized his grandmother was sleeping upstairs. By the time he got to her, it was too late to try and exit the house the same way he came in. Fortunately, Tom had devised a fire escape plan years ago, and Tim was able to bodily carry his feeble 82-year-old grandmother out the window, onto the roof, and eventually down on the deck. The sight of this brave son of mine carrying his grandmother as he ran down the lawn and away from the house is one I will never forget.
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Food blogging (and general blogging) conferences and workshops are all the rage right now. One cannot log on to Twitter without someone mentioning an upcoming conference event or listing their recaps of highlights from such weekends. Last month I flew to NYC to attend BlogHer and Big Summer Potluck. This past weekend I attended the sold-out International Food Bloggers Conference (IFBC) in Seattle. Lately I’ve been attending many of these events and already have plans to fly out to San Francisco next month for another one. All these conferences begs the question, why?
I cannot speak for anyone else but myself but I have made some observations worth noting. Conferences are opportunities to learn, network, refuel, and reconnect with friends, old and new. Depending on where you are in your blogging career, you will be motivated to attend for different reasons and that is okay. My primary motivation for attending these events are going to be different than why someone else decides to go. And for the record, my main motivation for attending these conferences is to see friends. Where else are you going to find so many people you connect with on a daily basis in one place? [click to continue…]
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Earlier this week I posted this amazing recipe for 4 – Ingredients Nutella Brownies from Abby Dodge’s new cookbook, Desserts 4 Today. Each recipe only requires 4 ingredients in this clever, simple cookbook -every dessert lovers dream come true! I’ve also made her cinnamon-basil ice cream which my husband was skeptical about until he tried a bite and exclaimed this was his new favorite ice cream flavor. The thought of eating basil infused ice cream was a revelation in itself to him and he’s a convert now – Hallelujah and Amen. I’ve also had the Orange-Scented White Chocolate-Blackberry Mousse, too! Can I just tell you how much I’ve enjoyed each of these recipes?!
I recently had the pleasure of meeting Abby in Bucks Country, PA at an all-day workshop we both were speaking at. She is an amazing women who is very likable, approachable, passionate, and kind. Abby is a seasoned cookbook author with seven cookbooks to her credit including many authored under the William-Sonoma series of cookbooks. She is also a pastry-chef and a Fine Cooking Magazine contributing editor. Abby also has a great website at AbbyDodge.com. [click to continue…]
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