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Loving Lately

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As a southern girl, I enjoy my sweet tea by the buckets-ful but that’s more sugar than I even want to think about so I’ve been sipping on faintly sweetened white tea instead.  Light and delicate and so refreshing with just a splash of basil simple syrup.  How I make it: 1 cup cold filtered water, 1..read more

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Green Tea French Macarons

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I adore French macarons but whenever I’m out and about, it pains me to pay top dollar for them.  Unless they’re Ladurée macarons which we visited twice amidst our packed Paris trip.  For those, I’ll make an exception.  J and I went in the off season and were lucky that we didn’t have a crazy..read more

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Weekend Bits

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I cracked into my first watermelon this weekend (as it’s my favorite fruit, it was enough to begin the long weekend on the happiest note). Dinner hosted by some friends…can’t get any more southern than chicken fried steak, bacon green beans, and soulful mac and cheese! Falafel from one of my favorite cafes. Coffee and..read more

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Food to Eat, Haul, & Bake

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A new video will be up shortly as I’ve had mucho computer issues as of late. What have I been up to?  Eating lots of yummy things, of course Crab Cakes Remoulade at a French Bistro I’ve been dying to try out. Raspberry, Almond, and Pistachio Macarons Good Eats = Happy Girl Art work at..read more

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The Saddest Cookie of All

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I’ll never be too proud to admit that sometimes, I can be a dolt. The very first time (and only time ever, mind you) that I was involved in a “car accident” happened all because of an ice cream cone. True story. It seems that my preoccupation with food is an expansive monster. If ever..read more

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