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Chicken Tacos with Cilantro Slaw and Avocado Cream
I started my weekend off right this past week…yup, that’s right…with cocktails! I know a lot of you saw my delicious cocktail picture on book of faces at precisely 6:31pm Friday night. I was lucky enough to take the afternoon off from work last Friday and take a nice bike ride. I am SO glad that I did that too because like you read in my post yesterday, it is supposed to rain for the next 6 days… 🙁 . I am very happy that I was able to get out and enjoy the last of the sunshine for a while. Anyways, to celebrate the gorgeously warm weather…what better cocktail…
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Lemon Glazed Blueberry Muffins
Good dreary Monday morning to you all! New England has a forecast of about 6 straight days of rain…I mean I know it is Spring and Mother Nature tends to like rain around this time of year, but 6 straight days of rain is just plain brutal. The only good part about it being so wet, cold, and rainy outside is that I get to stay inside any make lots of goodies. I know most people really hate rainy days and while I am not a huge fan; I can at least appreciate the down time to do things inside the house, like cook/bake! These muffins I made this weekend…
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Garden Pasta Salad
Congrats Tino!! He just bought himself a brand new 2011 Hyundai Sonata, fully loaded SE 2.0T, and traded in his Ford Explorer. His exploder as we called it! He is a hard core Ford guy so I have to say I was very shocked when he decided on the Sonata, but the car is really beautiful and certainly is going to get him better gas mileage than the exploder. Although, I know he will miss his big car…but I am SO proud of him for buying his first *new* car (you know how that goes, owning lots of cars in your lifetime but never a *new* car)! In spirit of…
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Spicy Chipotle Grilled Shrimp with Pineapple
What a perfect weekend! It was sunny and there was lots celebrating! Tino’s grandmother turned 95 this weekend!! How amazing is that?! She is such a pistol too, hehe. Even at 95 she is still sneaky, she was able to get a taste of her cake without ANYONE, besides me but I wouldn’t dare say a word ;-), seeing her (you know the sneaky finger in icing trick, haha). I was also able to celebrate a fabulous Mother’s Day with my mom. Every year it is our tradition to go to her favorite farm and to pick out all her vegetables, spices, flowers, etc. for her garden my treat! Then…
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Marble Cake with Chocolate Frosting
The bake sale was a complete success!! The girls and I were able to raise over $700!! Which is so incredible! Thank you all sooooo much for donating and being so unbelievably generous. We are all so overwhelmed by everyone’s generosity. Some more fun that the girls and I are taking part in is doing a fundraiser through Pampered Chef. Yup that’s right!! All sorts of AWESOME stuff that you can get it is amazing. Check out this link—> Support Ravie through Pampered Chef. If you click on that link it will take you to the rep’s personal page that is sponsoring the event for us. If you would like…
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Ratatouille Pizza
Happy Monday all! I hope you all had a fabulous weekend. The weather here was so gorgeous, I think Spring may finally be upon us. It was sunny and 70 both days of the weekend and it was truly glorious. Now in true Spring tradition it is supposed to rain the *entire* week :-(. Ah well, at least the weekend was nice and now that I have to be stuck inside for work it will be rainy. Don’t forget to stop by Becky’ s Bake Sale today and check out all the goodies that she has. Everything looks SOOOO yummy!!! Head on over and check it out and make a…
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My Guest Post at More Than a Mountful – Ratatouille Pizza
I am so SO excited to let you all know that I will be doing a guest post on Chef Dennis’ fantastic blog, More Than A Mount Full. Chef Dennis has over 35 years of culinary experience and is currently the Chef/Director of Dining Services at Mount Saint Joseph Academy in Flourtown, Pa. He is such an inspiration to me! His blog is one that I have followed since the very beginning of my blogging experience. Dennis always has the most amazing advice and such good stories to tell too. I really enjoy that about his blog! Not only is he trying to make you a better cook but he…
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Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Blondies
Don’t forget Becky’s Bake Sale is coming up soon!! May 2nd! I am still so excited to be a part of her bake sale! There are so many incredible people participating with some really amazing looking recipes. The recipe that I wanted to share with you all today is the bake sale item that I will submitting for Becky’s bake sale. Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Blondies…mmmm mmmm! You are going to be amazed how how easy these are and what fantastic results you will get with so few ingredients. Ingredients for Chocolate Chip Peanut butter Blondies: 1 cup butter 2 cups white sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup…
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Funfetti Cake Pops
Happy day after Easter! Although it isn’t too happy for me…I am sick at home with the flu :-(. YUCK!! I wonder if it had anything to do with the fact that I was stuffing my face with all sorts of glllorrrious sweets! I cannot tell you how much I missed having those sweet treats. I don’t eat a ton of horribly unhealthy things for me but when it comes to sweets. I just will not cannot control myself! I think it is because my mom has always made such amazing goodies ever since I can remember and now that I enjoy it so much, it was SO hard to…
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Herb-Crusted Chicken with Red Quinoa
Happy Good Friday everyone!! I have been kind of MIA this week…I apologize!! After the show this weekend, which went SO well, I have been trying to catch up. Work has been SO busy and the softball and kickball (yes I play kickball in an adult league, it is SO much fun!!) leagues are starting up. BUSY BUSY! I am so excited about this weekend…want to know why?! I GET TO EAT SWEETS!!! YAY!! 😀 (I am SO excited to be involved in Becky’s Bake Sale – Check it out on May 2nd). Another thing to celebrate…I know everyone always celebrates their 100th post on their blog…well this is my…
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Bake Sale
Hello all!! I wanted to let you know about Becky’s online bake sale, if you haven’t heard about it already! Her bake sale proceeds are going to her Relay for Life effort to support the American Cancer Society. I think it is great that she is doing this! She graciously donated for my Breast Cancer Walk in July so when she asked me to be a baker in her bake sale, I was more than happy to join the cause and help out! The Bake Sale will be held on May 2nd. Each item has a minimum bid of $15. If you have any other questions or concerns feel free…
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Triple Berry Scones
Just wanted to let you all know that the big presentation went really well on Wednesday. The staff seemed to be really impressed overall which makes me really happy. A lot of really big names in my company in that meeting, which is always a good thing right? Getting noticed by the big boys on campus. 😉 The big show is this weekend for Eclipse! I am really excited about it! Jenn, the director, has done such a great job with building the choreography and the concept of the show. The show is based on the idea that people are so connected to technology that they sometimes lack real human…
