Chocolate Hazelnut Banana Bread, Roscoe Village, Chicago

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River North, Chicago
An old photo I came across from the Google days. This was one of our desserts one day: Chocolate chip cookies with Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups pressed into them.

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Our local Starbucks was really pushing this new smoothie they’re selling, the Vivanno. I was walking by one day and decided to give it a try on a whim. There are two versions, one is Orange Mango Banana and the other is Chocolate Banana. I tried the Orange Mango Banana one. It’s made with a [...]

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On Saturday I hosted a cookie party. My mom, sister-in-law, cousin, nieces, Dallas’ aunts, and some of my girlfriends all came over. Each brought several dozen cookies, which we laid out and sampled over the course of a few hours.

I served some baba ganoush (Dallas and I love the Whole Foods brand of it [...]

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So, I know Snow Patrol is old news, but they’re one of those bands whose music I have a good amount of (30 songs on iTunes and on my iPod), but who I never really recognize as being a great band. Until a song comes on that I really like and I find myself singing [...]

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