Category: Dining

I am a little sad that our fig season is over. We are really lucky that the critters have not found our tree (hopefully they never will!) and we have been enjoying lots of figs from our tree for the past

I saw these fun colorful straws featured in the May 2010 issue of Brides and I loved them! I love using straws – and good ones are hard to find. I did find some big fat ones that are great for boba tea

Safeway always has the cutest ads! They had one a few years ago with candy sushi and I loved it.

This time it was an ad with s\’mores made with pretzels instead of graham crackers – look at this:

Another recipe I found in Sunset Magazine (it is one of my favorite magazines!) and this one was sent in by Helen Newell of Pebble Beach, CA. It was featured in the August 2009 issue.

It is so easy:

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I love the Eating is Art Blog and the blogger Tricia is also an excellent photographer! I love taking photos of food and I love looking at photos of food! You know the photographer does a great job when

I am always looking for new chicken dinner ideas and earlier this year I was reading Sunset Magazine (the May issue) and I saw this recipe submitted by a reader (Christopher Hesterberg in Clinton, UT actually).

I am odd when it comes to ice cream – depending on the month I either love it or hate it. And most of the time I hate it. I am not really a fan of cold drinks so I think that has something to do with

It is a beautiful summer (it should be Spring – it is April after all) afternoon here in Orlando today so we decided to eat our lunch outside.

We made grilled cheese sandwiches and salad and I decided

Chris and I were visiting Lake Tahoe and I happened to take a look at a copy of Sunset magazine. I fell in love with it and started a subscription right away! It has tips on decorating, gardening and

Look closely – do you see what this is? A burger with bacon and the bun is 2 Krispy Kreme doughnuts!

This burger was featured on the Gothamist blog – click the photo to check it out!

Check out these creative sandwiches from Funky Lunch! The alligator sandwich was of course my favorite (and theirs too because it was on the home page!):

Other favorite sandwiches are the Loch

One of my brides made this amazing cake and posted a photo on Facebook recently. I thought the cake was incredible – I have yet to try fondant – I am too nervous! But I couldn\’t help but notice what

Check out this castle birthday cake!

The bubble tape and runts are by far my favorite parts!

Then the microphone cake is awesome, too!

That is a cupcake in the top part and you put jelly

Chris\’ brother Ben and his family got us an awesome gift this year for Christmas – pears! We were actually thinking about sending them something similar. Chris said they got a fruit of the month club

My mom has several sets of china – I\’m not sure why. But she likes all of them and when we got married I asked for one set (my favorite blue set) and she instead offered me the “fruit” set as I call

I\’ve got a thing for cake stands – not really sure where it comes from. We registered for a really cute one when we got married, but since someone bought us a random ugly one we kept it instead (didn\’t