Braised Red Cabbage with Apples and Caraway Seeds

March 11, 2009

It’s Wednesday, which means another installment of WCW. As always, be sure to check out WCW’s home over at Shan’s blog. There are always many great recipes linked from there. So, my plan to eat even more vegetables and explore winter vegetables has actually been quite successful. Not only have I learned several new techniques […]

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Beauty Monday – Burt’s Bees Almond Milk Beeswax Hand Creme

March 9, 2009

Beauty Monday is a weekly feature focusing on green beauty, paraben-free skincare and the beauty industry and marketing. I have been a huge fan of this hand cream for a long time – it has a yummy almond scent when you apply it, but it fades with time, and it is incredibly emollient and effective. […]

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Fashion Musings – TranquiliT Bamboo Wrap

March 6, 2009

I am a huge fan of bamboo clothing. It’s eco-friendly, lightweight, but not paper-thin, and it is very versatile. Many of my bamboo clothes are from TranquiliT and are black (or, noir in TranquiliT speak), but I also own this au naturel wrap that you see on the picture. It’s a great transition piece as […]

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Red Split Lentils With Cabbage

March 4, 2009

In addition to the usual WCW theme, including my sending you to its home over at Shan’s Tale of the Fairy Blogmother, today’s recipe is my submission to Foodalogue’s virtual tour around the world – a journey of eating food from various countries but also to raise awareness for Bloggeraid. This week Foodalogue is stopping […]

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Foodalogue’s Culinary Tour Around the World

March 3, 2009

Tomorrow will be the usual What’s Cooking Wednesday, but I wanted to preview it with a little bit of information on the blog event to which I am submitting tomorrow’s post. Joan of Foodalogue started a wonderful journey in January, where every week she researches and cooks dishes from a different country – a virtual […]

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Beauty Monday – Latest Bobbi Brown Shimmerbrick

March 2, 2009

Beauty Monday is a weekly feature focusing on green beauty, paraben-free skincare and the beauty industry and marketing. I am a huge fan of Bobbi Brown Shimmerbricks – depending on which shade you use, they can be a blush, eyeshadow and highlighter. This latest one, Platinum, is not quite as versatile. It’s very pretty and […]

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Sunday Morning At Teaism

March 1, 2009

I think I am totally losing a battle against this cold that I have had the last week, but I am still going to brave the weather to go to Teaism this morning for breakfast – one of my favorite breakfasts in Washington DC is their Tea-Cured Salmon with Naan and Raita. The key to […]

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Manchego Mac and Cheese for a February Storm

March 1, 2009

It’s been a cold week, and last night I got home completely soaked from rain and slush. Husband is out of town, so I figured this was the perfect opportunity to make Mac and Cheese, especially since there was Manchego in the fridge. You see, husband doesn’t like Mac and Cheese. It’s very odd to […]

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Fashion Musings: So About that Winterized Ballet Flat

February 27, 2009
Raleigh by Ariat at Zappos.com

It’s no secret that I love love love ballet flats. But, let’s face it, in winter, they do not provide a whole lot of protection between your feet and the cold ground (and it’s been way too cold here in Washington) – so I spent most of the last couple of winters looking for a […]

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Chile Shrimp

February 25, 2009

Welcome to WCW! Be sure to check out WCW’s home over at Tales of the Fairy Blogmother. This shrimp recipe below might be my new favorite recipe. Kim O’Donnel, of A Mighty Appetite, shared it when she wrote for Real Simple’s food blog – I can’t believe it’s taken me so long to make it. […]

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Top 50 Food Blogs and A Book about Life

February 25, 2009

I just saw this today, and wanted to share it with you. It’s the Top 50 food blogs according to the Times – the one in London that doesn’t need to qualify itself with a city like the New York Times. Many of my very favorite blogs are on the list, leading off with Orangette, […]

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Beauty Monday – Stila at Costco

February 23, 2009

I went to Costco a couple of weeks ago, and imagine my surprise at finding this – two Stila lip glaze sticks, a contouring kit and a brush, all for $14.99. Lip glaze sticks are generally $16.50 apiece, so this was quite a deal. I know cheek contouring went out of style in the 1990s, […]

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Who knew Starbucks had good cupcakes?

February 23, 2009

More Pretty Cupcakes Originally uploaded by City Girl Lifestyle I should qualify that by saying that the vanilla bean one is amazing – it’s even flecked with little dots of vanilla bean. The frosting is light and delicious and the golden sugar adds a wonderful layer of crunch. The cupcake itself is moist and delicious […]

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Fashion Musings , Now Weekly

February 20, 2009

So after some thinking, I have decided that I am going to make Fashion Musings a weekly thing. I am not going to tie it to a specific day, though I think I will post later in the week. As I mentioned last week, I am going to focus on fashion solutions as well as […]

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City Girl’s Real Simple Corner

February 19, 2009

You may remember in my last post on magazines, bemoaning Domino’s demise, I wrote that after I cancelled all my magazines subscriptions a few years ago, Real Simple Magazine was the first one I re-subscribed to because I missed it, a lot! As much as I love many magazines, if I had to pick one […]

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