When the kids were growing up and I had a 8am – 6pm job,  my saving grace many many times  was my slow cooker.   I rotated between that and a pressure cooker to keep my sanity.   Back then, dinner consisted of a meat dish, some kind of fish and vegetables. And rice.  Always
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We’ve all heard of wine pairings which involve chocolates or cheese ~ and food, for that matter.  At the recently concluded 2012 Winter Fancy Food Show held at the Moscone Center, we were pleased to have discovered a fun alternative to the norm.   Meet Cookies &  Corks ~ fun, flirty and fabulous sweet and
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Last year, we spent three full days at the 2011 Winter Fancy Food show which was held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.  It was my first year at the show but not my first convention.  I knew a few good things about these events:  wear comfortable shoes and be prepared to walk and
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A couple of weeks ago, I was asked if I was interested in tasting a new brand of jerky that was soon to be available in my grocery store. My reply was a quick and easy yes; my husband loves to munch on jerky when he is nervously watching a game, or even sometimes on his drive home from work. We’d pretty much checked out all the regularly available known brands (the usual suspects) in the grocery stores and have ruled out all but one familiar brand that did not cause what we have come to refer to as ‘jaw fatigue’.

My family has been a convert and big fan of coconut water ever since  I discovered a few really good brands at the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco earlier this year.   All the brands we peruse are either in bottles or cans ~ some with pulp, some sweeter than others.  I spent
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Wine and Chocolates- however way you want to combine the two, the outcome is always heavenly! And there’s no better way to learn pairing them than to have the beautiful tandem of Leslie Sbrocco and Andrea Immer Robinson show us how to throw fun parties and be choco-wino matchmakers. We were able to catch the ladies recently at the much anticipated and celebrated San Francisco Chocolate Salon.

They say you are what you eat.   Care to join the Cwazy Cacao Cocoa Club?  Is there a difference?  Where does chocolate come from?  We’ve featured a lot of the divine stuff on our site, but it’s kind of cool to learn how our indulgent treat is made. This is a cacao bean pod from
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I scream for ice cream ~ all the time.  It’s the love of my life next to chocolate, and of course the husband ~ and the grandbabies.  The sweet gene has passed down to two generations below me.  So, it’s just a no brainer that I share with you this wonderful new creation from Baskin-Robbins,
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This blog’s  for the dogs!  I almost missed this on our news feed. It’s a good thing I kept on going as I know a picky canine that could use something other than chicken and rice or lamb and rice. I’ve had our pup for two years now and there’s always a debate in our
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I take it you all are ready for GOOD NEWS?  Turn off your television sets unless you’re home and enjoying March Madness.  24/7 news is full of gloom, doom and false alarms especially for us over here in the West Coast.   I am delighted to be the bearer of glad ice cream tidings, comfort and
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