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The Versatile Blogger Award
Wow! Thank you so much! I was awarded the Versatile Blogger Award by Mandy at The Complete Cook Book and Ramona at Curry and Comfort. Thank you so much to both of you! I am so very honored that you considered me for this award. You have made my week! 🙂 In acceptance of the award, the rules are: to thank the person / people who awarded you by linking back to their post to list 7 interesting things about yourself to pass the award on to 15 other new or newly discovered blogs My 7 interesting facts: My favorite food in the whole world is carrots. Yes, believe it! I ALWAYS…
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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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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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Oatmeal with Fruit Compote
I am back! First off, when I woke up this morning it felt like it was 3am. That was not fun haha. I found that going out to California I really adjusted well to the time difference, but the coming back to CT? The time change is being quite a pain. I thought that I would be able to adjust just as easily…not so much. 😛 The weather in California was so glorious…I cannot even tell you how great of a break it was to have some actual sunshine that had warmth to it. It was in the high 60s, low 70s the whole time I was in California and…
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Hoisin Beef
Ahhh the warm California air is so glorious! So what am I doing blogging right?? Well, I had this post saved so that I could post it while I was away because I did promise you all another recipe from my Great Food for Great Friends post. Here is the last recipe from the night of cooking with my friends. The recipe is for Hoisin Beef skewers. I wanted to make something that was easy for my guests to eat AND enjoy. That is why I decided to skewer the beef. The original recipe was for beef tenderloin steaks but this was a little less formal and more keeping with…
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Great Food for Great Friends
Saturday of this past weekend was a fun day…I invited over some good friends and we had a great time eating, drinking, and just socializing. Once I knew that people were going to be coming over I decided I wanted to do something a little different for dinner than what I normally do. It is always great to break from the mold :-). I know a lot of people who tend to try and stick to what they know when they have guests coming over because normally, that makes for a guaranteed good meal. ::raises right hand:: I am very guilty of this! However, this time I wanted to step…
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Traditions
Does your family have traditions around the holidays? My family…. (picture above at the Liebro household – Thanks so much for having us over Christmas Eve. It was a great party.) Meet Mom and Dad. In our family there are certain traditions that we do during the Christmas season and have ever since I can remember and I thought that it would be nice to share them with you all.. We (mostly my mom) spend countless hours decorating every inch of the house with Santa figurines, stockings., and Christmas trees. Everywhere you look there is another little something that just oozes Christmas cheer. Along with the decorating my mom and…
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Christmas
Can you believe it? Another Christmas has come and gone…I can hardly believe it. It is like when you spend all day making Thanksgiving dinner and then everyone sits down and dinner is over in like half an hour. My Christmas was full of fun, friends, family, and food! How did I manage to find four words that started with F…ahh Four…ok I’m done haha. You know what the best part of my Christmas was?? IT SNOWED!!!! You should have seen me, and anyone who is my Facebook friend did, I was like a 4 year old when that snow started to fall as hard as it did! Seriously, you…
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Holiday Party
It is Monday again…how do Monday’s always seem to creep up so fast on you? I mean really…it was just Friday! I did have a really good weekend though. My parents threw this really amazing Christmas party for some of my Dad’s coworkers. I was the bartender/tour guide/photographer of the party. OH YES! The new camera is fantastic! You should have seen me when it arrived on Saturday. I was like a little kid jumping up and down screaming “Open it! Open it!”. It came while I was helping my mom cook some food for the party and I completely stopped what I was doing to open my new present…
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Wine & Cheese = Great Quick Dinner
Whew! I think I am done with my Christmas shopping now, “wait…what?! You are done Raven?”…YES I AM! Besides little odds and ends I think I am done with all my Christmas shopping. What a load off! I went to a whole bunch of stores last night to finish things up for family and friends. It felt really good to get it done the only bad part was…it was POURING DOWN RAIN the entire time! I mean it was pouring so bad that one of the times that I got back to my car, my hair was actually dripping water, haha. For reals, stop raining and give me some snow!!!…
