It is so darn fulfilling when you semi-invent a recipe and you get it right the very first time? Ahhh… life is good! I literally feel like a happy bunny post lunch today! Confession time: I have an annoying habit. Annoying for someone used to working in a quiet environment, not annoying for me who
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When I first went on my sugar free diet about a year and a half ago, I used to bake a lot. I’d at least have muffins or banana cake if not something a little more complicated in the home. But as time has passed, the sugar / bread cravings don’t come as often so
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Welcome to one of the sweetest weekly virtual potluck get-together ever! Yes indeed — it is Sugar Free Sunday! We host it every Sunday to exchange incredible sugar free recipes. Inspiration to start the week right? You bet! Today is 10 years since 9/11 shook the world and when I think about it the first
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“Kanda nu Kachumber” is Gujarati (the native language of the state of Gujarat, India) for “Onion Salad”. Now like most “Kachumber’s” from India, this one has yogurt too. This is H’s recipe and a super comfort food for me. Yes I know, this picture officially wins the award for “Sonia’s Worst Picture Ever!”, but do
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Welcome to one of the sweetest weekly virtual potluck get-together ever! Yes indeed — it is Sugar Free Sunday! We host it every Sunday to exchange incredible sugar free recipes. Inspiration to start the week right? You bet! When I went sugar free it was pretty easy to cook sugar free. I thought making desserts
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This is so exciting! Only about an hour and half to go before we randomly choose a winner for our beautiful Sur La Table giveaway. Don’t miss out – read all the details here. I live in a beautiful location. A place where people flock in the winter to ski, snowboard and build snowmen. Yup
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Welcome to one of the sweetest weekly virtual potluck get-together ever! Yes indeed — it is Sugar Free Sunday! We host it every Sunday to exchange incredible sugar free recipes. Inspiration to start the week right? You bet! Three days to go! We’re giving away a Sur La Table Vintage Apron which is so darn
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I’d like to remind you of our awesome giveaway: We’re giving away a Sur La Table Vintage Apron. You can read all about it here. I remember about a month ago a good friend (aka – blogger-in-crime) called me up for a very quick question – “What’s a good way to cook tempeh?”. Heh. There’s
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Welcome to one of the sweetest weekly virtual potluck get-together ever! Yes indeed — it is Sugar Free Sunday! We host it every Sunday to exchange incredible sugar free recipes. Inspiration to start the week right? You bet! I’d like to remind you of our awesome giveaway. We’re giving away a Sur La Table Vintage
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This event is now over AND the winner is……… (drum rolls please)….. Pallavi Vetury-Iyer!! Congratulations! Thank you everyone for participating and helping us spread the word about Velvet Aroma – the best way to Read, Save, Cook! The team at Flip Cookbook and Velvet Aroma loves to cook AND we love things that are functional
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This last Friday bloggers from around the world came together to make a Peanut Butter Pie for Jennifer Perillo’s Mikey. It is the gut wrenching story that everyone dreads, and no one knows what they would do if it happened to them. But Jennifer’s graceful post, For those asking what they can do to help
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So H loves beets! We pressure cook them and then he has them in his salad. My dilemma usually is, “What do I do with the water?”. I just don’t have the heart to throw it away, although I have had to a few times . I’ve experimented with the beet juice and have realized
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Sometimes I really can’t think of what to cook. And honestly I don’t even want to think about what to cook. To solve this dilemma I do this weird thing of picking out a cookbook and opening it randomly to a page. Often this doesn’t work so well because I end up with a recipe
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