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close up filters
For food bloggers just starting out with their first DSLR, I usually recommend the Nikon 50mm f/1.8D Lens as a fantastic basic, all purpose food lens. If there’s a little extra money available, Nikon...
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happy thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who is celebrating, today. I hope your day was filled with fun, family, and food! (Thanksgiving recipes coming, really, truly, I promise!) [ happy thanksgiving! is a...
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monday links – nov 29
If you read this in an RSS feed, you might not notice the changes to the layout of the blog recently. (Well, that and because I haven’t been posting regularly!) The thing is, the two are tied together....
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monday links – dec 6
I love clementines. Love them. I’ll probably buy 10 or 12 boxes of them before the season is over. I love the holidays anyway, but clementines make the season even that much better!! Ok, let’s get on...
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monday links – dec 13
So many delicious looking holiday treats and foods on the various blogs this week! Deb posted the most delicious looking garlic butter roasted mushrooms. I gotta admit that these are my favorite part...
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monday links – dec 20
It’s been a busy week and I haven’t had time to edit photos or post recipes. (See above and think of the hours I spent filling and frosting 72 mini cupcakes!) I have a ton of stuff waiting, but it’s...
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happy holidays
No links today … just a wish for Happy Holidays from my home to yours. I’ll be back after Jan 1st. PS – The Christmas Eve prime rib was wonderful – thanks to Steamy Kitchen’s prime rib recipe! [ happy...
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monday links – jan 10
The very first links post of 2011! (This was the view outside my front door at about 11 last night … pretty cool!) There was some really good stuff posted this last week. Of course I still have my...
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mon links – jan 17
I re-read the Julie/Julia blog today – the original one on salon.com – and it inspired me to make Julia Child’s French Onion Soup. As it turns out I didn’t pay attention to the recipe exactly and...
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monday links – jan 24
Good grief this year is already getting away from me! I have 100+ drafts on the blog here and none of them are finished or photographed. I started out with good intentions and then … well I don’t know...
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alphabet weblinks
Riffing off of a John Scalzi post, I decided to put the first letter of the alphabet into my browser bar and see what the first result that came up was. Here are the results – all pretty predictable, I...
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Welcome to 2013 and a list!
I’m not going to post an apology for not blogging in forever and a day – I’m just moving forward with 2013. A couple of days ago I read a blog post by Marquette (a regular contributor on Pinstrosity)...
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This is one of those things I found in a totally roundabout way. I follow a blog called Army Pants and Flip Flops who today mentioned the 28 Day Blog Challenge, posted by Katie Widrick on her site....
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cooking, living, and the state of the blog
If you look back at the dates of my posts on the blog, you can see that I took a (very) long blogging hiatus. From late 2008 when I started the blog until the beginning of 2011, I blogged regularly....
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house and home category
One of the reason I’ve added the house and garden categories to the blog (which is ostensibly and by name a cooking blog!), is to push me to start decorating my house the way I want to live, and stop...
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Finishing the 28 Day Blog Challenge – Some Thoughts
Back at the beginning of this month I posted that I planned to participate in the 28 Day Blog Challenge. I created a page for the challenge to list my goals and keep myself on track. Today is Day 28 –...
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Embracing Imperfection
One of the things that has held me back from blogging over the last many months is a little bit of perfectionism paralysis. I’ve been thinking about it a lot as I’ve been blogging more and...
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Photography Props & Backgrounds
Way back when I first started this blog, I struggled a lot with props and framing and colors for photographing things. My kitchen doesn’t get a whole lot of light, since it’s in the back of the house....
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Week 17 2013 – Things
So this was supposed to be a Sunday post and I … um … well, I sorta slacked it off yesterday. Some blogger I am. Here it is on Monday instead. I made the phyllo cups above as a test for a baby shower...
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Week 18 2013 – Things
Right about the time this post goes up, I should be on a plane on my way to NYC. I’m really excited. I haven’t been to the city in almost exactly 5 years – since I treated myself to 10 days there for...
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