Sparkling Plumcot & Purple Basil Shrubs

It’s time for #DRINKTHESUMMER 2016! To honor the end of the summer season, Sherrie Castellano of the gorgeous plant-based food blog With Food + Love has organized another of her virtual cocktail parties. Anyone who wanted to join was welcome to participate and it sounded like too much fun to pass up. Today, you’ll find over 50+ food […]

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Fig, Dark Chocolate & Almond Financiers

August, in its final stage of summer, has the markets booming with the last of the colorful fruits. It’s the best time of the year to enjoy the vast array of fruit before the fall season begins to creep in. Once the dog days of summer have arrived, I’m eager for fall and there’s one fruit that […]

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Lemon Poppy Seed Old Fashioned Donuts

What books are you reading this summer? I have a sky scraper of reading material resting on my bedroom nightstand. All partially read and waiting to reveal their endings. Biographies, books on spirituality, fictional suspense, research findings on courage, and the magical essence of creativity. Lately, I’ve taken to reading on weekends while drinking my morning coffee. […]

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Blackberry Lavender Soda

Summertime and the livin’ is easy. Billie Holiday must be forgetting how miserably sweltering this time of year can be. It has been unbearably hot this summer. My daily desires are for chilled drinks, air conditioning, and a good book to read indoors. Thankfully, the market is overflowing with new fruits of the season. All begging to be […]

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