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RECIPES

All the Healthy Yumminess

How to Choose and Cut a Pineapple

One of my loyal readers David recently requested a video on how to cut up a pineapple. This is definitely a tricky thing if you don't have much experience with it. When I first taught myself, I tried a few different ways before I settled on this one because it is the...

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Vanilla Pudding Day!

That's right, you heard it here first, folks. It's National Vanilla Pudding Day so I am sharing with you a recipe from my favorite cooking blog Smitten Kitchen. I have yet to not like one of her recipes, so don't hesitate to give it a go: Vanilla Bean Pudding recipe...

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Miniature Food Sculpture Art

I've seen this little miniature food sculpture art around the web but haven't been able to find the source. They are so incredible I couldn't help but share them! I thought these were done by the Little People Project guy, but I went through all the archives and...

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Compound Butter Recipe

Hmm, Cheri, what exactly is compound butter, you wonder? Well, if you don't know already, you're about to regret learning this late in your life! The concept of compound butter is extremely simple: it's just butter mixed with one or more other ingredients which is...

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Happy National Chocolate Chip Day

In celebration of National Chocolate Chip Day, I thought I would post the charming history of the chocolate chip cookie: Chocolate chips are a required ingredient in chocolate chip cookies, which were invented in 1937 when Ruth Graves Wakefield of the Toll House Inn,...

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Coolest Pancakes Ever

This Dad has it going on with the pancake art. Saw this article on the Huffington Post the other day; check out the cool drawings he can do with pancakes! Musical instrument pancakes: Body organ pancakes! The uterus cracks me up every time: And look at this memorial...

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Copycat Recipe: Girl Scout Tagalong Cookies

Because the amazing Girl Scout Tagalong Copycat cookies are out of season, now you can make them at home whenever you need them! Chocolate Peanut Butter Shortbread Cookies Girl Scout Cookie Tagalongs Copycat Recipe INGREDIENTS 1 cup (2 sticks) of butter 1 cup...

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Corn, Corn, the magical…grain?

Corn is technically a grain but traditionally used in cooking as a vegetable or a starch. It is the most widely grown grain crop in the Americas and was originally domesticated in Central America during the freaking prehistoric times. Approximately 40% of today's corn...

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Bartertown Diner, a Vegan Collective, Grand Rapids, MI

This Q&A Session is the first in a series of profiles of Restaurants and Chefs called The Hot Plate Imagine with me for a moment that you're a vegan. You have chosen to never consume animal products based on a variety of reasons, to the extent that everything you...

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New Restaurant Nomination Feature

I'm so excited! I've just added a feature to the website where you can go and nominate any restaurant in the Florida Gulf Coast Area to be reviewed by Nourish Your Lifestyle! WAHOO!!!! Just look for this button and click it! How fancy is that??

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Honey Do Mead: 5 Facts About Honey

It takes 12 honeybees to produce one tablespoon of honey. That's so cute. Hard workers! Honeybees are the only insect to produce a food eaten by man. I wonder if they get annoyed at us though - I mean, it's not like they were making it for us - they were making it for...

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Why a Baker’s Dozen is 13 Instead of 12

Love this little fact I read on TodayIFoundOut.com: The Baker's Dozen has its origins in the fact that many societies throughout history have had extremely strict laws concerning baker's wares. For example, in Ancient Egypt, should a baker be found to cheat someone,...

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Mustard-Roasted Potatoes

And the final recipe to round out the meal we had a week ago was one of my classic favorites from Smitten Kitchen (my favorite food blog), her Mustard-Roasted Potatoes. I'd made this for the first time when Tamas and I lived in France a few years back. I chose them...

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Grilled Vegetable Skewers

Tamas and I grilled out last weekend and part of the meal was these grilled vegetable skewers. If you wanted the recipes for the other items, here they are: Grilled Marinated Sirloin Steak Tamas' Famous Corn Salad Mustard-Roasted Potatoes The vegetable skewers were...

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