Curried Lentils with Sweet Potatoes and Swiss Chard

February 18, 2009

Welcome to WCW! Do check out WCW’s home at Tales of the Fairy Blogmother. Do you remember how, in my quest to eat more winter vegetables, I wanted to make this lovely recipe for Curried Lentils and Sweet Potatoes with Chard from the NYT, and got totally foiled because, of all things, Whole Foods was […]

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Beauty Monday – Physician’s Formula Organic Wear Pressed Powder

February 16, 2009

Beauty Monday is a weekly feature focusing on green beauty, paraben-free skincare and the beauty industry and marketing. It occured to me last week that the only Physician’s Formula Organic Wear product I have reviewed recently on this blog is their mascara. I did review four other products in the line in April, though, but […]

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Cupcakes in Jars

February 14, 2009

So, at this point many cities have many delectable yummy cupcake bakeries. But what do you do if you don’t live in one of those cities, or if you want to make a gift of cupcakes to someone far away. Cupcakes are fragile little things after all. Answer: you turn to Cupcakes in a Jar. […]

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Remember Fashion Friday?

February 12, 2009

Tomorrow is Friday, which is a very good thing, and I have a post planned – it’s on cupcakes. Very easily shipped cupcakes. They’re awesome – you should totally come back and check it out. But I digress because I really wanted to talk about fashion. See, here’s the thing, when I first started this […]

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Chicken with Black Beans and Salsa

February 11, 2009

It’s totally been one of those weeks, and it’s only Wednesday. I was tempted to make today’s WCW post an admonition check out WCW’s home over at Shan’s, followed by a strong suggestion to eat some Nutella while you check out the World Nutella Day roundups at Bleeding Espresso and Ms Adventures in Italy and […]

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Beauty Monday – Physician’s Formula Organic Wear Mascara

February 9, 2009

Beauty Monday is a weekly feature focusing on green beauty, paraben-free skincare and the beauty industry and marketing. Finding a good paraben-free mascara is not easy – some, especially the olive oil based ones, just slide right off. I was pleased with the Tarte all natural mascara, but still missed the effect that I used […]

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A meme – 25 Random Things – With a Kitchen Twist

February 7, 2009

Remember the Facebook meme that is floating around the internet? I did mine last week – it even got quoted (see towards the end of the linked post). But I love memes, and Kim of A Mighty Appetite tagged me via Facebook for a variation – 25 Random Things – With a Kitchen Twist. And […]

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Magazine Thoughts

February 6, 2009

As all of you know, Domino magazine is one of the latest victims of the bad economy. In fact, it didn’t even go digital only first – instead it was completely axed. This New York Times article describes well why they had great numbers reader-wise but not ad-wise. Domino is a magazine I liked since […]

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Happy World Nutella Day

February 5, 2009

Happy World Nutella Day 2009! The brainchild of Bleeding Espresso and Ms. Adventures in Italy, World Nutella Day is designed to celebrate the chocolate hazelnutty goodness of this yummy spread across the blogosphere. I know people often have this image of wholesome eating in Europe, with daily trips to the market for fresh vegetables. That’s […]

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Emergency Kale and Sweet Potatoes

February 5, 2009

In my quest to eat more winter vegetables, I found this lovely recipe for Curried Lentils and Sweet Potatoes with Chard which I remembered from the NYT and looked even better because Deb of Smitten Kitchen had made it -and in case you haven’t gone to Smitten Kitchen, you should. So off I went to […]

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Beauty Monday – Burt’s Bees Milk and Shea Butter Hand Soap

February 3, 2009

I am a huge fan of all-natural soap bars (a.k.a. cold process soaps) that retain their natural glycerin, but I also like liquid hand soap. So far I have had the best luck with Burt’s Bees hand soaps – they are gentle and moisturizing. My latest favorite is their Milk and Shea Butter Hand Soap. […]

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Making Sure You Eat Your Vegetables …

February 1, 2009

I know it might all seem like cupcakes and dessert here, but I actually do care about nutrition – and we all know that eating vegetables is good for you. I know that too – and it’s SO easy to do that in summer. You can make salad after salad and not have to repeat […]

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It’s been a long week…

January 31, 2009

…but there’s been much debate on an issue of interest to me – high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) – and I wanted to make sure to put up a short post on the topic. I have spent a very long time keeping it out of my food consumption because of the effects it can have on […]

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Caramelized Onion Tart

January 29, 2009

Remember when I had all those extra green olives to use up? Well, I also had some black olives to use up as well. So I decided to make Pissaladiere (PEASAH-LAH-DEE-AIR), which is a lovely onion tart with olives and anchovies. The onions are wonderfully caramelized and the anchovies are not fishy, just nice and […]

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A meme – 25 random things about me

January 28, 2009

So I have been tagged by a couple of friends on Facebook. Here are the rules: Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged […]

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