Olive Oil Lemon Cake

Recipes, Sweet Treats

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I don’t know exactly who “they” are and I certainly don’t have a thousand words to say about this picture. What the pictures in this post do say is that a) olive oil lemon cake is a highly underrated cake and b) I had a difficult time removing this cake from it springform pan. Don’t judge. Normally when I see the words “springform pan” in a recipe I assume it’s a complicated…

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Blueberry Drop Scones

Breakfast & Brunch, Recipes, Sweet Treats

When my alarm went off at seven a.m. today, my instinct was to shut it off;  it’s Saturday, so I must have set it by accident. It’s a good thing I thought twice because this morning I was a guest on NBC Chicago’s morning show to promote the food blogger bake sale that I host in Chicago every year. Despite my near-miss at oversleeping I was able to function properly on live television, thanks in part to the coffee that…

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#WineWednesday: Southern Right Sauvignon Blanc 2009

Food, Wine

  90 percent of the time, when someone asks you if you want white wine, they mean Chardonnay or Sauvignon Blanc. I don’t know if that’s true, but 90 seemed like a good percent. Sauvignon Blancs are crisp, dry, easy to drink, and one of my own personal favorite things to drink on a patio during the months between May and September. And this is a Sauvignon Blanc worth saying yes to.…

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Perfect Margarita

Recipes
margarita

When I was in college, there was a bar near my school that had half-priced happy hour from 4-6pm. Predictably, Fridays (and the occasional Wednesday or Thursday) could find a group of my friends and classmates gathered around the bar for 22-ounce draft beers or three dollar frozen margaritas.…

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