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My Kitchen Wish List

by Julie Daniel on March 9, 2010

in Cooking

I already have a KitchenAid mixer but it was my mother’s, which means it is over 20 years old.  It is still holding up great though, except that the dough hook is MIA.
KitchenAid 5 Quart Mixer:

Or I could just buy a dough hook and keep on using my current KitchenAid:

Silpat baking mats in various sizes.  [...]

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Perfect Pancakes

by Julie Daniel on February 10, 2010

in Cooking

I am currently snowed in due to  Snowmagedden/ Snowapocalypse/ Sn-omg and this morning I got a hankering for pancakes.  I did a quick google search and came across this delicious made from scratch recipe:

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 -1 1/2 cups milk
2 [...]

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Site of the Week: Pattern Glass

by Julie Daniel on February 3, 2010

in Cooking

Last March I posted here pictures of a few cute cake stands I found online.  In this month’s Martha Stewart Living they had a whole article on glass cake stands.  A bunch of the cake stands they featured were from Pattern Glass and are absolutely goregous!

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Dutch Farmers Market

by Julie Daniel on December 14, 2009

in Cooking

On Saturday I went to the Lancastar County Dutch Market in Germantown, Maryland.  Oh my goodness…. they had the most amaaaazing food.  If you live anywhere near, you must go check them out.  Yum.  I bought a ton of baked goods and food (BBQ Chicken Salad, Potato salad) and they had a to die for restaurant.  [...]

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Scones!

by Julie Daniel on December 13, 2009

in Cooking

Scones are so easy to bake and so absolutely delicious.  I use the Better Homes and Gardens Recipe, the only changes I make are using chocolate chips in half the dough and leaving the other half plain.  I also use a star cookie cutter to cut them out instead cutting them in triangles.
Better Homes and [...]

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I Want These

by Julie Daniel on December 13, 2009

in Cooking

I want four of these Le Creuset Mini Cocottes…

And this…

Pretty much everything in my Amazon wish list is food related, I’m trying to figure out if that is pathetic or refined….I’m not sure…

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Site of the Week: Simon Pearce

by Julie Daniel on April 7, 2009

in Design

Ever since seeing the movie “Sweet Home Alabama” I have been looking for hand blown glass stemware similar to the one’s made by Reese Witherspoon’s ex in the movie.  He owned a shop called “Deep South Glass” (I think that was it?).  Just found it!  The awesome stemware in the movie is actually made by [...]

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Cake Stands Galore

by Julie Daniel on March 24, 2009

in Design

I just spent an hour putting together an exquisite post on cake stands and accidentally deleted it all… AHHH!
I am not going to completely recreate the post, instead here are the pics in a gallery.
These are all lovely cake and cupcake stands I found at IKEA, Pottery Barn, Williams- Sonoma, Food Network, Etsy and Target.

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