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Tips & Techniques

Love Is In The Air: Create Your Own Heart-Shaped Bokeh

by Karen February 13, 2012
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Lately, the combination of a busy school schedule and my addiction to Instagram has resulted in serious camera-neglect.  I’ve found little time and reason to take the ol’ DSLR out.  So when I saw this simple lens filter DIY, I jumped at the opportunity to play around and have fun– and just in time for [...]

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Baumkuchen (German Tree Cake): A Labor of Love

by Karen January 4, 2012
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As a food blogger, I’m constantly bombarded by food recipes and photos at an attention-deficit inducing rate.  This has resulted in probably the largest, most disorderly bookmark folder known to man, and most of which I’ll probably never get to given the limitations of the human stomach.  So, when I make it a priority to [...]

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The Low Down On Wine: Interview With An Expert

by Karen January 26, 2011
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There are some jobs I want. Michael Cristillo has one of them.  He’s the wine and spirits buyer for Bristol Farms, a gourmet and specialty food retailer in California that I’m a big fan of (they have some of the most outstanding produce outside farmers markets, in my opinion).  And as the buyer, he gets [...]

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Essential Salts For Your Kitchen

by Karen January 10, 2011
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Salt. Arguably, the most important ingredient in the kitchen and dare I say, the most important mineral in the world? I mean, just think about where food would be without it.  Food would just be sustenance: a vegetable here, a hunk of meat there. With salt, and more importantly different types of salt, simple ingredients [...]

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Valerie’s Slightly Unconventional List of Foodie Gifts

by Valerie December 11, 2010
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Well it’s that time of year again, which means a couple of things.  Family and friends and love and joy and all that good stuff.  But it also means stress, dunnit?  All that love must be repaid with gifts!  So to make that process a little easier, Karen has put together a fun list of [...]

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Karen’s Holiday Gift Guide: Find the Perfect Gift for a Foodie

by Karen December 7, 2010
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This time of the year can be a real pain.  The stress of buying gifts for your loved ones is exacerbated by crowded stores and other grouchy, stressed-out holiday shoppers.  I’ve put together a list of holiday goodies that I absolutely love and I’m pretty sure others would be psyched to receive.  The list has [...]

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How to Deseed a Pomegranate in Seconds (The Art of Eating Pomegranate Seeds)

by Karen November 10, 2010
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Every now and then, little things will remind me how incredible nature is.  Take the pomegranate.  Tough, leathery, dull on the outside.  Crack it open and it reveals clusters of jewel-toned red fleshy seeds that are sweet and tart.  When I was little, a house on our block grew pomegranate trees in the front yard.  [...]

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23 Fabulous Cooking Blogs I Love to Read

by Valerie November 3, 2010
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As you may or may not know, I am the not-necessarily-culinarily-gifted half of Globetrotter Diaries. I love cooking, I love eating and I love exploring cultures through food, but on Fridays I leave the cooking up to Karen and serve as occasional sous chef and photography assistant (and taste tester, of course). One of the [...]

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How to Whip Egg Whites – 6 Tips to Get Those Perfect Peaks

by Valerie October 6, 2010
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So since this Friday we’re making a souffle, I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to talk about the very delicate art of whipping egg whites. One of the most crucial steps of making a successful souffle is whipping your egg whites into stiff, firm peaks that are light and weightless and stand up [...]

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