FOOD FUN: Football & Baseball Cupcakes

Sure, cupcakes are the rage; but what happens when you buy a dozen or two for entertaining? You pay a lot of money! The first time you bake a batch instead of buying them, you’ll save enough money to pay for two cupcake/muffin tins to make 24 cupcakes. This nonstick cupcake/muffin pan from Wilton has…
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FOOD FUN: Create Your Family Crest (It’s Free!)

Gallo Family Vineyards has launched a fun and interactive microsite offers that lets you create, share and download personalized family crests—or crests for other groups, from your foodie friends to book club. At CrestCreator.com, you’ll find 17 different family crest templates that be customized with 300 icons in fashion, food and drink, hobbies, nature, sports…
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HALLOWEEN: Lenny Mud Ceramics

Drink your milk or else! Photo courtesy Lenny Mud.   Trying to track down a clever tea pot, we followed a trail from website to website and ended up at the Etsy store of Lenny Mud, based in Haddonfield, New Jersey. Lenny is the studio cat; the ceramist is Lorrie Veasey, who creates handmade ceramic…
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The History Of Yorkshire Pudding For National Yorkshire Pudding Day

October 13th is National Yorkshire Pudding Day. Yorkshire Pudding is neither sweet, a dessert, or what Americans think of as pudding. In fact, it’s very much like a popover, an Americanized version of Yorkshire Pudding. (The history of Yorkshire pudding is below.) The difference: Popovers are baked in individual molds (like muffins), usually coated with…
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FOOD FUN: Coconut Cake & A Palm Tree Cookie

Bathing suit optional. Photo courtesy Fishtail | NYC.   This inspiration comes from one of our favorite seafood restaurants, David Burke’s Fishtail in New York City. If you’re missing the warmth of summer, evoke the tropics with this creative dessert: an individual coconut cake garnished with “drunken” mango salsa (add rum to a sweet mango…
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