For some people, eating wheat (and rye and barley) is not a choice.  Their bodies can’t handle it. And this condition, whether it’s gluten intolerance or full-blown celiac disease, seems to be increasing in prevalence.
Let’s just stop and think about that for a minute.  No hot bread, straight from the oven, slathered with butter, the [...]

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We still have several more months before the abundance of fruit appears in our local grocery stores.  I can hardly wait for the cherries.
Not the tiny little sour pebbles that are in the store right now, for $15 a pound.
Noooooooooooo.  The sweet walnut-sized cherries from heaven… that’s what I’m talking about.
For now, we need to [...]

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Imagine these at your next dinner party with a little liquor of choice (think: orange, lime, lemon) inside for dessert.  Or, for the younger crowd, stuff them with peppermint ice cream and serve to the kiddos.
Or fill with cheesecake and plop a fresh raspberry on top.   The possibilities are endless.
Cheers!
Dobla Dark Chocolate Toasting Cups (12) [...]

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One hot chick.
And she cooks.
Hen-shaped kitchen appliance boils or poaches eggs, with 3 different water levels, creating the perfect egg.  Piercing pin prevents shells from cracking.  Removable parts are dishwasher safe.
It doesn’t get any easier or faster to crank out some eggs.  The kids will love her!
Henrietta Hen Egg Cooker – $27

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Although I’m certainly eating fewer bagels, like none,  these days, my boys still love ‘em dearly.  I do miss a nice toasted schmear with cream cheese.  If only my body wouldn’t violently reject it.  But no.
Anyway.
Real bagels, you know, the kind from the bakery, need to be sliced in order to be toasted.  Have you [...]

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My fantastic new oven burned me last week. Burned me bad.  I still have the scar, although I’m sure, in time, it will fade, as my pain has faded.
Sniff sniff.  Waaahhhhh.
Here’s what happened:  I was minding my own business, removing a key lime pie from the second rack in the oven, when OW, @#$(*@(#*! , [...]

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