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My Amazon Connection

Posted on March 15, 2012 | Leave a comment

Bringing the Story to Life
Week 7 reading plan per day:
Click on the colored link to read each day’s scripture.
Monday (Numbers 1-4) Tuesday (Numbers 5-6)
Wednesday (Numbers 7) Thursday (Numbers 8-10)
Friday (Numbers 11-13) Saturday (Numbers 14-15)
Sunday (Numbers 16-17)

James 1:17 Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation of shifting shadow.

Spring has sprung,
the grass has riz,
I wonder where the birdies is?

Is it spring where you live? We are having 80 degree days this week while “sunny” California is in a winter storm advisory! I am not complaining, but this does seem a little messed up! I love spring for all the typical reasons of new growth, the circle of life moving ahead a season, and a especially a time for new beginnings. It is with the enthusiasm of a new beginning that I tell you about my newest addition to my blog. If you have spent any time at all moving around the home page recently you will notice a new tab titled SHOP. After I joined the on-line baking group called Tuesdays With Dorie I noticed that some of the other bakers were able to share Dorie Greenspan’s Baking With Julia cookbook with a link to Amazon in case any of their readers wanted to purchase the book. I love the book so much I also wanted to provide a link to make it easy for you to purchase. In my investigation of how to make this happen, I learned that I could provide a link to that book or to anything on Amazon! Fast forward a couple weeks and you will find that not only am I now an Amazon Affiliate, but I am including a store on my website filled with some of my favorite things. I have also included a couple links on my home page that will direct you to Amazon to shop!

For now, I am starting with four categories of items that are some of my favorite things that you might be interested in.

Cookbooks such as this gem.

Christian Books and Bibles like this: (one of my favorite studies!)

Gift Cards — they are a no brainer.
Give ‘em what they want … and they are the ones who know what they want — a gift card!!!

And am I the only one who spends time surfing through Amazon looking at the amazing kitchen products and gadgets? I think not.
My friend Sue told me I must have a microplaner. I couldn’t imagine what I would do with it … but Sue has been leading me around the kitchen for more than 30 years, so who am I to argue, I ask you? So, I buy a microplaner. My husband says “what are you going to do with that?” I said, “Ask Sue! ” I use this thing ALL the time. I zest oranges, lemons, limes, nutmeg, onions, oh ya, using this on an onion makes an onion paste that is incredible in cooking when you want fresh onion flavor but no chunks. Okay, you get the picture!

Bottom line, if you are going to make a purchase through Amazon, I would appreciate it if you would use a link on my website to take you to Amazon. Amazon requires that you set up an account with them (you probably already have one) and my blog will simply be a link to them. You will still surf through their bazillions of items and check out just like usual. And finally, I welcome any comments you have about your favorite cookbooks, a new book you have read, or a kitchen gadget you just love! When I told my mom I put a link on my blog to Amazon, she immediately clicked on my Amazon store tab (SHOP) and ordered a Cuisipro Cupcake Corer! Aren’t moms just great like that?!! Stay tuned, I plan to put this cupcake corer to use with some awesome Sourcream Coconut Cupcakes for Easter!

Many Blessings, Happy Cooking and Happy Shopping!

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St. Patrick’s Day Just Around The Corner

Posted on March 15, 2012 | 2 Comments

Oh my gosh, St. Patrick’s Day is Saturday, I married a Southern man of Irish descent and I haven’t posted even one special St. Patrick’s Day recipe. So, I decided to surf the net and bring you the best of some of my favorite bloggers for this year.
Probably my very favorite St. Patty’s Day recipe has got to be the number one sought after recipe for the Brown Eyed Baker. Last year she created Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes and if the names doesn’t get your attention, then the ingredient list will. I mean really — Guinness stout, cocoa powder, Irish Whiskey, and Bailey’s Irish Creme?? Check out this link to her blog for her story of this creation.
The Ladies at Our Best Bites cooked up a really eclectic list of St. Patrick’s Day foods that range from Split Pea Soup to Key Lime Tarts and a whole bunch of good eats in between. You can catch their story here.
And finally, would any holiday celebration be complete without a chocolate cake … Chocolate Stout Cake! Last year Tracey’s Culinary Adventures featured this awesome looking chocolate cake loaded with nothing less than Guinness stout!

With my chief culinary consultant in the last week of training for the Los Angeles marathon (March 18) there isn’t any chocolate cake at our table this week and definitely NO Guinness on St. Pat’s Day. However, after the race I have promised him a celebratory chocolate something. Then it will be right back to training as the Jack Daniel’s Oak Barrel Half Marathon is only a few weeks away. He runs, I bake. He runs, I eat. Hmmmm, something is wrong with this picture.

Wishing you a Happy St. Patty’s day I got to thinking about our time in Ireland last fall. We had such fun in Cork, Kilkenny, and Waterford. I hope you will enjoy a few pictures I took of our time there. No particular order, except I will end with a picture of our dinner with Martin Toal, an Irish Tenor who joined our cruise for a 3 day tour and ended up spending 7 days with us on the high seas due to the three hurricanes we dodged over a period of 2 weeks!

Round the table clockwise, Brigette (Vienna, Austria), Pamela (Bath, England) Gunther (Vienna, Austria) Yours truly and my chief culinary consultant, Beryl (Swansea, South Wales) and Martin Toal, (Ireland and England.)