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Food (10 posts found)
Pineapple & Jalapeño Relish Recipe
It's easy to squirm your way out of making dinner at home and go out to enjoy a fantastic dinner made by someone else. At least if you're like me: single, of little patience and hate nothing more than doing the dishes.Unless I'm cooking for a client, the...
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Iced Espresso. How To Make a Good, Good, Daily Coffee Drink
To say I'm an espresso aficionado is to say shoes are just okay. If there were a word to describe my unconditional love for the fine, dark, robust roast, I'd coin it. You'd think I started drinking espresso at an early age. Some kids in our family have. But ...
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Bistro at Biltmore Estate. A French-Inspired Dinner For The Fanciful
(Doesn't this look gorgeous?!?!)
Eating at a fine establishment is one my life's simplest pleasures. I never underestimate the sensation and euphoric state I enter during and after an exquisite dinner.
It's not very often I allow myself to be bound to a s...
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Home Run Inn Frozen Pizza. A Departure From Home Base & a Doctored Margherita
I grew up in a very happy home. A home filled with tremendous love, constant engagement, social stimulation and phenomenal food. Next to hugging and kissing us like a bird hovering over her eggs, there was no better way Mami showed her love for us than by fe...
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Eze, France. Overlooking the French Riviera Serves as a Teaser to a Month-long Travel Series
Traveling is timeless. The action of and consequence therein have no expiration date. What you gain from traveling is an invaluable gift that never fades. At least in theory it shouldn't.
My family and I took a 2-week trip to Southern France and Mon...
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Hotel Indigo Lobby & Bistro Finds Design Inspiration in Fox Theater Music
Atlanta is known for being home to world reknown artists such as Gladys Knight, John Mayer, Cee-lo Green (and perhaps his purring Persian cat), Usher, Toni Braxton and even the lovely yet late Whitney Houston. She and Bobby had a home in a nearby suburb.
I...
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Beet Purée and Fruit Salad w/Caramelized Onion & Ginger Recipe
This is an emotional post. It requires attention to detail and understanding of culinary growth.I hate beets. Really, I do. As a child, Mami used to juice for the 5 of us and force two glasses of the unbearable concoction before ordering us off to sch...
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Breakfast at Inn at Biltmore & A Night’s Stay
There are few invitations to leave Atlanta I never turn down. Going to D.C. is one, international travel, whether personal or on a media trip is another and less frequent, quick regional hops to fabulous places. The latter, mostly because they're only for a ...
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#FlanFridays: Dark Chocolate Ganache & Raspberry Sea Salt Flan for Valentine’s Day
I don't do Valentine's Day. Since I've been blogging, I've always found a way to make reference to it, either via a savory recipe or sexy libation. In the same reference I always advise that for me, it's nothing more than S.A.D. -- Single's Awareness Day!
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If Virginia is for Lovers Then Asheville is for Wine {& Chocolate} Lovers. A Privé Tasting at the Biltmore Estate
One of the sexiest things we could do as diners is get into the real enjoyment of drinking wine. I say so with the admission that I'm not a bona fide connoisseur of wines. Nor am I the biggest lover of them (bubbly being a huge exception). I'll take a white...
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