May 2011

Margarita Cupcakes {Happy Cinco de Mayo!}

May 5, 2011 |

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Happy Cinco de Mayo! The one day a year when we can stuff ourselves full of chips, salsa, guacamole and margaritas. It’s a little bit of a foodie nirvana. Of course there is historical significance to the day, which I shared in my homemade restaurant style salsa post. But like most holidays that celebrate a [...]

{book} Food Matters by Mark Bittman: Readalong?

May 4, 2011 |

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One of my goals for this year is to read at least one book a month, and in an effort to do so I have been selecting books at random from the list of 100 that I created (last month I read Freedom by Jonathan Franzen). This month the random generator popped out Food Matters [...]

Homemade Restaurant Style Salsa

May 3, 2011 |

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The first time I went to a truly authentic Mexican restaurant, I got my socks knocked off when the customary bowl of chips and salsa arrived at the table. The salsa was so… different. Different, of course, from all of the jarred salsas that I had ever known. The chunks weren’t as big, it had [...]

Cinco de Mayo Recipes

May 1, 2011 |

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This coming Thursday marks one of the best foodie holidays behind Thanksgiving and Christmas – Cinco de Mayo! A day when it is perfectly acceptable to eat chips and salsa/gaucamole for each meal and wash them down with margaritas? Count me in! Cinco de Mayo actually commemorates the Mexican’s army victory over the French at [...]