Asheville, your bacon cupcake has arrived.
Taken from the blog of Short Street Cakes, this cupcake has:
 Cinnamon Pound Cake! Bacon! Apples Fried in Bacon Grease! Cream Cheese Icing!
I’m torn between thinking this might be the greatest thing ever and….No, I just think it might be great.

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I was listening to NPR’s Splendid Table today and they discussed the book “What We Eat When We Eat Alone,” a compilation of stories and recipes that discuss, obviously, what people eat when they are alone. It got me to thinking, what do other people enjoy when they have a quiet night to themselves? When […]

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Yum, yum, yum. Naan is an Indian flatbread ( think pita bread). I keep reading about it as a delicious, high-fiber replacement for pizza crust and tried it today. I bought the whole wheat kind, toasted it lightly, then topped it with a few slices of smoked mozzarella, sliced tomatoes, and sauteed mushrooms and green […]

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Here in the sunny South we’ve enjoyed some odd but delightful weather. It was snowing just six days ago, enough for my kids to build a sizeable snowman. Today, it is 80 degrees and we’ve spent the better part of the weekend outdoors. Right now, I’m enjoying surfing the ‘net while the husband plays in […]

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This is why you’re fat. 
A food blog that alternately disgusts and intrigues me. The bacon/hot dog wellington? Sorry, but that sounds kind of delicious. Krispy Kreme Sloppy Joe? NO THANKS.

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I guess I should stop eating like I’m stressed? Goodbye, Pepperidge Farm Coconut Cake. Hello, sensible snacks…

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Haven’t written a lot lately because I’ve been cranky, and who wants to read a cranky blogger?
But I thought I’d share my ingenius thriftiness with you guys. I made three meals this week out of one little ham. First, I cooked the ham in the crockpot and served it as our main course for dinner […]

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Taste just like a pop-tart, so draw your own conclusions there.
Three Points for one pop-tart, and there are two in each individually wrapped package ( three packs per box). Three points for a sugary breakfast doesn’t seem like a great idea to me, and six points for the whole pack seems worse, but I suppose […]

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I’ve been tossing around a breakfast idea in my head for a few days and decided to try it out on the kids. It’s certainly not an original recipe ( I can hardly cook, let alone create a recipe) but it’s an amalgam of several recipes I’ve seen this month. I’d cite the recipes as […]

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Why did no one ever tell me that warm, salted edamame tastes just like boiled peanuts? It’s delicious!

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