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City Girl’s Real Simple Corner

April 17, 2009

Spring is always when magazines do big beauty features – In Style and Allure have their yearly winners in product categories, and since I love beauty products, they are always fun issues to read. This year, though, I am really liking Real Simple’s approach. Yes, I know this is no surprise since I heart Real […]

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Chocolate Strata with Raspberry Sauce

April 15, 2009

Chocolate Strata with Raspberry SauceOriginally uploaded by City Girl Lifestyle Sometimes, very good ideas are born out of sheer laziness and forgetfulness. Take this chocolate strata – a few weeks ago, on a Friday, I was on my way home from a very long day on the heels of a very long week. I was […]

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ALL YOU Magazine

April 15, 2009

It’s no secret how much I heart Real Simple, but let’s face it, I love many many magazines. That’s why I was really happy to be contacted by some great people over at Time Inc. (publisher of Real Simple) who wanted to tell me about ALL YOU magazine, I was surprised I had not yet […]

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Beauty Monday – Eco-Tool Brushes

April 13, 2009

I can’t quite believe these brushes have been out for a year already, and I am just getting around to reviewing them now. What’s funny is that when last year I was thinking about opening up the scope of the blog to beyond beauty products, I was on this desperate quest for these brushes – […]

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Fashion Musings – Tano Bags

April 13, 2009

Happy Easter. I hit a wall today after a very long two weeks with no breaks and many late nights, and am currently in bed with magazine, laptop and lots of pillows. I just took a nice long nap and am now browsing purses online. I love purses. It has occurred to me that a […]

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Weekend Herb Blogging #178 – Tangy Shredded Cabbage Salad

April 10, 2009

I am very excited to be participating in Weekend Herb Blogging for the first time – this blog event has existed for over three years now (178th edition is this week), and began at Kalyn’s Kitchen. Haalo, of Cook (almost) Anything at least Once, took over at some point in the last year. It’s a […]

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Matchbox, A Favorite

April 9, 2009

Matchbox is one of my favorite restaurants in Washington – I usually go to the location at Gallery Place, but there is also one on Capitol Hill. The sliders are delicious and easily a must-get appetizers, but I especially love their brick-oven pizza, which is wonderfully thin-crusted. Be sure to get your pizza with their […]

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What’s Cooking Wednesday and Bookmarked Recipes #49 – Khatte Chole / Sour Chickpeas

April 8, 2009

Welcome back to What’s Cooking Wednesday – be sure to check out WCW’s home over at Shan’s blog.When I was planning to participate in Foodalogue’s virtual tour around the world – a journey of eating food from various countries but also to raise awareness for Bloggeraid, I was actually quite ambitious and wanted to submit […]

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Birthday Macarons

April 7, 2009

Macarons from Michel Patisserie, sold at ACKC in Washington, DCOriginally uploaded byCity Girl Lifestyle As part of my husband’s birthday festivities, we stopped by ACKC to pick up some Michel Patisserie macarons. I am SO glad ACKC now sells them. Aren’t they pretty. The slightly cracked one is chocolate, which was a darker, almost nutty, […]

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Antidote to the Monday Morning Blues – Beautiful Monday Instead of Beauty Monday

April 6, 2009

I walk to work now, but I took the subway when I lived in New York, and I really wish my morning commute had had more of this: This lovely event happened at 8am two weeks ago, on Monday March 23, in Antwerp, Belgium, at the main train station. I love the chain of events […]

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Waffles on a Sunday Morning

April 5, 2009

Liege Waffle at Locolat Cafe in Adams Morgan, Washington, DCOriginally uploaded byCity Girl Lifestyle Happy Sunday! I think today I am going to go back to Locolat Cafe this morning, which is an adorable Belgian patisserie and chocolate shop on the Southern edge of Adams Morgan, so a quick walk from the Dupont Circle neighborhood […]

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Gelato Within a Few Blocks!

April 4, 2009

Pitango Gelato on P Street NW in Washington, DCOriginally uploaded by City Girl Lifestyle As I tweeted (or twittered?) yesterday, it seems that a gelato place is opening three blocks from where I live in Washington DC. The new Pitango Gelato will be at 1451 P Street NW, Washington, DC, which happens to be across […]

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Fashion Musings – Ann Taylor Loft Cardigan

April 3, 2009

I have a complicated relationship with cardigans – I love them because they are comfortable and classic, but I don’t love buttons. They always end up looking fussy for some reason. So I have really liked the shawl-collared type cardigans of this last winter – though come to think of it, I have a love-hate […]

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Red Seasonal Salad

April 2, 2009

Red Seasonal SaladOriginally uploaded byCity Girl Lifestyle I love the weekly blog event Bookmarked Recipes. It started almost a year ago (this week is the 48th edition) as a result of the efforts of Ruth at Ruth’s Kitchen Experiments – the premise is to pull out a recipe you have had bookmarked (blog, cookbook, cooking […]