From the monthly archives:

November 2009

A Foodies Guide to Holiday Gifts!

Phew… Thanksgiving week was a whirlwind of fabulousness! In between the baking, the photo shoots and the cooking I managed to get in a few hours at the gym so I could prepare myself for the feast that occurred yesterday! It was pretty fantastic… and I’ll be posting more on that next week as well [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!! Things have been pretty insane these last few days… lots of stuff going on, family visiting and a ton of holiday baking… I just haven’t quite found time to put it all into words for my blog! Photo styled by Miriam L. and photographed by yours truly! But… I couldn’t just leave [...]

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Balsamic Onion Galette

Can you believe that after this past year in Culinary School I have never even attempted to make a Galette?!?! What is wrong with me? I was seriously missing out! Maria, from Two Peas and Their Pod, and I were discussing what we wanted to make for this Friday and we figured that a galette [...]

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Food Styling and Photography – Part Dos!

So… after the first day of the Food Styling and Food Photography class we were sent home with a homework assignment, we had to think of what we wanted to shoot the next day and we were responsible for all the food and prop styling. Now let me tell you, normally I don’t have a [...]

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Food Styling and Photography Class

First off I want to say – Happy 1 year Blog-iversary to ME!!!!!! I plan to celebrate all week long, kinda like my birthday, so feel free to send gifts and love and food my way! It has officially been 1 year to the day when I first created this blog. When I started I [...]

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Hearty Chicken Chili

Chili is one of my all time favorite winter meals! Its hearty and filling and you can put as much cheese on it as you want and it just tastes better and better! Whenever I make chili, I make a huge pot of it, eat some of it then and then freeze it in individual [...]

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Foodbuzz Festival

Wow – what a weekend! The first annual Foodbuzz Festival was a total success, everything was delicious, the people were amazing and I officially gained 21.56 pounds over the course of 48 hours! The entire weekend was devoted to food and wine and I got to meet some fabulous new food blogger friends and hang [...]

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The Pioneer Woman Cooks – Penne alla Betsy!

For those of you who don’t know who the Pioneer Woman is… you need to climb out from under that rock and get with it! I can’t remember when exactly I first heard about the Pioneer Woman, aka Ree Drummond, but when I eventually made my way over to her blog it was pretty much [...]

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Molasses Cookies

Molasses cookies are cookies that are near and dear to my heart. It wasn’t every day that there were Molasses cookies in the house, unlike my dads infamous chocolate chip cookies… those were there every week! No, the Molasses cookies recipe was something that my mom dug out every year right about this time and [...]

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Culinary School Graduation

Ta-Da!!! I finally have all the photos from my Culinary School Graduation! These were taken by Andy, a gracious photographer who volunteered his time at our graduation! After an intensive 24 week course covering everything from basic knife skills to advanced preparation of meat and lobster, my fellow classmates and I finally made it to [...]

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