Monthly Archives: July 2011
Sunflower Power
I love when a new flower comes into season and suddenly you can get whole truckloads of them for a few bucks. Since we’re quickly approaching August we’re in the midst of Sunflower season and these bright hearty flowers will last for well over a week thus stretching your dollar even further! This fluffy variety
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Pretzel Bread Appetizer
I recently found these tiny little loafs of various kinds of bread at Trader Joes and I had to grab a few and try and figure out a great use for them (besides just eating them with reckless abandon). The first up is pretzel bread (YUM!) and I decided to make the simplest possible appetizer.
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Cooking Lessons: Tender Greens Corn Soup
If you tuned in for last week’s cooking lesson, then you know that I had the good fortune to learn Panzanella Salad from chef Roy at Tender Greens. While there, I was also lucky enough to catch a second recipe, corn soup. I’m a HUGE fan of corn soup but have never actually made
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Junked Drawer
So, the supplies for the craft I’d originally planned for this week did not arrive in time. I will admit to feeling a bit of panic as I looked through my stash of supplies for some last-minute inspiration, but what better fuel for creativity than a little healthy fear? I can’t take credit for the
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KTLA: National Junk Food Day
Celebrity Party Planner Rachel Hollis joined the KTLA Morning News team for National Junk Food Day with all the latest treats. Read More...
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Family Meal
At any given moment there are between 1 and 37 different guys at my house building things. They come and they go, some stay for days, others have been here for years it seems, just like that painter on Murphy Brown. I don’t tend to interact with them much besides the usual pleasantries, “hello” “how
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Recycled Brick Garden Edge
Gardening Fun Months ago I picked up a copy of Cottage Garden Magazine, a limited release from Cottage Living. What I couldn’t have known at the time was how deeply I would come to love this little periodical. Its sat on my nightstand for months and occasionally I’ll see it there, and sigh, and
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Cooking Lessons: Tender Greens Panzanella Salad
This week’s Cooking Lesson found me at Tender Greens a favorite local restaurant with wholesome, natural, good for you, and good to eat fare that’s a regular lunch locale for me and the Chic crew. Tender Greens chef Roy Arendse was nice enough to share not one, but TWO recipes with us and the first
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Starting a Garden
If you’re like me, the idea of starting a garden is intimidating. It seems like a project that would take a lot of skill, time and resources to get started. Well, after a few years of experimenting myself I’m here to tell you that anyone can do it! My initial inspiration came from the book
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Growing Up