5 years ago
Bren Takes the Pressure off Holiday Cooking on Great Day Washington
My friends at Great Day Washington, (CBS) invited me back to do a fun and lively cooking segment featuring holiday recipes from my cookbook, "Modern Pressure Cooking" and using both my stovetop and electric pressure cookers. They said I'd be doing Cuban c...
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B! Inspired Holiday Luxe Gift Guide, 2017
Friends! I'm so excited to share our 5th annual B! Inspired luxe gift guide! I never thought I'd still be curating and producing these luxe guides that hopefully inspire you to pick up extraordinary gifts for the loved ones on your list, including yourse...
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The Perfect Salted Almond Chocolate Espresso Pie
I swear to life that all things that are good for our soul comes in the form of slabs of butter, eggs, coffee, chocolate, and sugar. I want to believe the five food groups are adequately covered in these lone ingredients. I eat them on their own (there was a t...
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Blood Orange Ginger Cranberry Sauce
Thanksgiving is supposed to be all about acknowledging what we're grateful for. We give thanks for our families, our health, our jobs, our friends, our pets, our opportunities presented and whatever else comes to mind. Oh, and of course we're giving all prai...
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10 Easy Hacks to Make Your Thanksgiving Smooth Like Butter
Thanksgiving is just 7 days away and your panic mode is in full effect. I get it. So is my Mother's. She calls me about three times a day to go over the menu, remind of my obligations and contributions and also manages to throw in there how much she wishes...
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Why the REINS and RAA Acts Jeopardize Keeping Kids Safe and Healthy
Here's a little fun fact about me: I interned once for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). I can't remember with certainty what legislation I was specifically assigned to eyeball, but I recall vividly my office and the piles and piles of paperwork I...
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Camo in the Streets
S ometimes in life we find ourselves contemplating everything -- what's our purpose look like? who makes up our ride or die village? are we crystal clear on who we are and what we stand for? I'm at that place in my life. I have a lot of questions. I wonder...
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Bourbon Cocktails for Boss Babes
If you're reading this, you probably appreciate life behind a hustling solopreneuer. That is, a woman in charge of everything she does in the way of making her cash flow increase. Short of answered prayers we lift up daily, the magic we conjure up, create ...
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Heifer School Milk Feeding Program for the Greater Good
This year marked 35 years since we left Cuba in chase of the American Dream in the U.S. My parents -- my mom a very pregnant 25-year-old with 9-year-old and baby in tow -- left behind everyone and everything they knew and had in order to establish a life f...
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#HANGRY Is Ending Childhood Hunger in America
I first experienced the mod term "hangry" when I was 20 during our first family trip to Europe. I remember the moment, clear as day. I was wearing canary yellow linen pants with a white linen blouse. After hours of walking and meandering the stre...
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