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Grandma is sitting this one out on New Year’s…

December 28, 2011 by Cara

This is the funny thing about holidays that require me to stay up into the wee hours of the night: I usually don’t celebrate them. (thankfully that only makes 1 holiday missed for the year) You see friends, I am what you call a “grandma”– no offense to the real grandmas out there. It’s just that I am…

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Filed Under: Kid-Friendly Tagged With: baking, chocolate, creativity, dairy free, decoration, dessert, egg free, Food, gluten free, holidays, New Years, party, pretzels, recipes, table setting, vegan, vegetarian

Let us raise our glasses.

December 27, 2011 by Cara

Hi, my friends! I hope that you all had a very merry holiday season. I missed you all so much in these past few days– it’s so good to be back. I had a really lovely, long holiday weekend full of: biking riding along the beach, sunbathing on the front porch, wine drinking, and hanging…

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All I want for Christmas is new self-esteem (and french toast).

December 21, 2011 by Cara

Virtual Advent Calendar: Being creative doesn’t mean that you need to go to extremes to impress people. Sometimes all it takes is to see things from a different perspective and to present it to someone from a new angle. That is the secret to creativity. Nothing fancy or far off concepts to understand. It has taken…

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Santa Claus is coming to town (on a plate)

December 20, 2011 by Cara

F&B Virtual Advent Calendar countdown: For me, it’s difficult to remember the day my parents sat me down to tell me that Santa doesn’t exist. Maybe it is somewhere deep down in the part of my brain labeled: “Cara’s Suppressed Childhood Memory Bank.” It’s quite possible that the trauma of such news sent me into a tizzy that I…

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Grandma got ran over by her cookies…

December 16, 2011 by Cara

Fork and Beans Virtual Advent Calendar (treats not included) Excuse me while I get my tissue and blow my nose as I sing, one last time, my favorite song from the past 2 weeks, “The 12 Days of Christmas Cookies”: (I cannot believe today is the last day of cookie making) 11 Mince”meat” failures, 10 Persimmon Cookies,…

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How to fail at baking and Economics.

December 15, 2011 by Cara

Virtual Advent Calendar It’s days like these that I am so glad I went to therapy back in the day. Though I am not always perfect at distinguishing between the two, I am still far ahead from where I used to be in regards to finding my worth not in what I do but who…

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Persimmonable cookies.

December 14, 2011 by Cara

Pardon me, dear friends, as I quickly sing through this song. I still have a little bit of time to study before my final and I need every last minute available. So without any further delay, here we go: Now I might not be a genius, but I can tell you this: If you eat 6 of these cookies…

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