My Dog is Chelsea

My mother complained at the dinner table during the Family Vacation that my blog has an entire section dedicated to making fun of her. While this is somewhat true (there is indeed a category called “My mother”), my intention is not at all to make fun of her. Except sometimes.
She is a wonderful woman—smart, strong, [...]

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I know, I know! How lucky can one girl get?! First, my Barack Obama cake gets featured on yeswecake.com. Then, my pumpkin makes it to yeswecarve. Now, this! Here’s a screenshot I just took of the home page of my favorite cooking site, culinate.com:

For those who need reading glasses:

That’s me!
I won a copy of Alice [...]

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(I originally posted this on my Culinate blog.)
“What do you think this is? A carrot or a beet?”
I was eating dinner recently at the bar of a nice restaurant with my Uncle Joe and my mother. The patrons next to us were prodding their side veggies—a beautiful medley of young carrots in a rainbow of [...]

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