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Nov 17

The Healthy Hangover Cure

Some mornings you wake up after having friends over and there’s more air in the Glenlivet bottle than scotch.  Our natural tendency is to go for heavily fried foods, usually greasy, with a lot of fat.  However, in the back of our minds, we also know that comfort food is rarely our best choice if …

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Mar 11

Let The Diner Beware

Somehow and somewhere my credit card / debit card information was stolen. Not the actual card because that was still in my wallet.

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Jan 11

Introducing BPA Free Baby Bottles

Glass BPA Free Baby Bottles

Healthy, Safe Baby Bottles | BPA and PVC Free BUY NOW The Eclectic Grocer is proud to introduce the Kinetic Baby Safe line of glass baby bottles.  Baby Safe Bottles are both BPA and PVC free, meaning you can use them without worry for your newborn. Research suggests that BPA’s may endanger your child during …

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Nov 24

Classic Clams Casino Recipe

Calms Casino Recipe

This fantastic recipe was given to me by a dear friend. They are an enormous family of Italians. She said it was her mothers recipe so I can only imagine how old it really is. My friend did confess that she updated it a little due to the convenience of bottled and jarred ingredients. There …

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Nov 21

Vino Luci Style – Foodie Blog

Cranberry Sauce with Merlot, Toasted almonds and molasses via www.VinoLuciStyle.com

Here’s another foodie blog we found through Twitter: Vino Luci Style. Nice sleek design, and loaded with good recipes and content.  Not surprisingly, a Cranberry Sauce featuring Merlot, molasses and toasted walnuts takes center stage this week, what with Thanksgiving just around the corner. Also of note is a full appetizer section with a Steak …

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Nov 21

TOP SECRET RECIPE: Gram’s Rice Pudding

Top Secret Rice Pudding Recipe

This is one of those recipe’s that you thank yourself for keeping. My grandma taught me how to make this 35 years ago, and she said her mother taught her. That would make this recipe at least 60 to 70 years old. It is the best Rice Pudding on the planet. I know you think …

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Nov 16

Pet Safety Through The Holidays

Our boy Parker

I have three dogs and 2 cats so I am clearly an animal lover. They consume an enormous part of my life as would children (I have two of them as well). We all want our pets safe and cared for and would never intentionally hurt them. There is one major oversight that I think …

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Nov 14

Thanksgiving Thoughts

The First Thanksgiving

I remember as a kid that Thanksgiving Day was a huge ordeal. My mother would start preparing the first week in November with grocery list after grocery list, making sure she had every single ingredient for every single recipe. We were at the store every day for 20 day’s. Thanksgiving morning she would get up …

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Nov 14

Pumpkin Pancakes Recipe

Pumpkins.  Perhaps for Pancakes

Courtesy of our head chef at www.thatgirlguide.com: Here is my simple recipe for Pumpkin pancakes. Mix enough pancake batter for 4 servings (and dare I say that it is fine to use a mix) Add: 15 oz. can of pumpkin, one teaspoon of cinnamon, 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of freshly grated nutmeg, 1 tablespoon of pure …

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Nov 10

BPA and Your Baby and Children

BPA Free Food Storage

I was reading a nice post over at www.safemama.com today regarding BPA’s being present in cans and bottles being used to store and ship juices and other items we give to our kids: Here we go … BPA in the news again.  I have been wanting to post something about this since I saw it on …

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