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Soup’s On: Mexican Corn Soup

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Inspired by the killer demo by Ingrid Hoffmann at the Summit Wine & Food Festival last week (more on that later), I wanted something light and easy for dinner with fresh ingredients.  Traveling on the back roads to and from Summit, New  Jersey, I noticed that they had a bunch of little farm stands with signage that heralded the arrival of Jersey’s bounty.    I stopped at Sweet Life Farms and I got to shoppin’ with a bunch of farm fresh {Read More}

Fab Friday: Cooking In Stilettos Edition

Ahhh – September, my favorite time of year. And, to kick off this glorious fall season, let’s get with some great fall finds, shall we? Cooking In Stilettos – Fab Fridays-9.3.10 by CookingInStilettos featuring stuart weitzman boots Stuart Weitzman Wedge Ankle Boots are a practical choice for this fall/winter season. I seriously do not like doing any face plants on cobblestones due to stilettos on ice or snow. Wedges are practical for me when it comes time for facing that {Read More}

Tried and True: Vinegar and Coarse Salt Chipotle Roasted Potatoes

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Ordinary steak and potatoes sounds so bland doesn’t it.  I often roast potatoes and onions for a side dish instead of the ordinary mashed or baked potato.  Roasting seems to give them so much flavor.  Ingrid Hoffmann made Vinegar and Coarse Salt Chipotle Roasted Potatoes a couple weeks ago and I thought that perhaps it might be a different flavor.  Growing up, one of my friends, Val, often had a penchant for Salt & Vinegar chips and during many a {Read More}

Ten in 10: Making Changes…

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When Recipe Girl talked about doing “Ten in 10“, I thought “No time like the present.”  See, everyone commits to diets, runs to the gym during the first couple months of the year but then you see things tapering off.  As BR once taught me, it’s about life changes. While uploading some pictures from back in the day, I also encountered some pics that I was none too pleased with – namely those pictures of when I was 75lbs heavier than {Read More}

Simply Delicioso Comes To HSN…

When I saw Ingrid Hoffmann a few weeks ago at the Philadelphia Food & Wine Show, she gave me a heads up that she developed her own line of Simply Delicioso products with HSN.  Well the premiere is tomorrow and the products are beyond sweet.  Check out a few things that are on the HSN site. The cookware is developed with T-Fal and Ingrid gave me a heads up that it isn’t insanely heavy.  Some other cookware can make you {Read More}