A couple of my college sweethearts (as we call each other since we were never in a sorority) and I went to the Orange County Fair for some heart attack-worthy eats the other night. While we were there we checked out one cool ice museum and stumbled on the all-Alaskan pig race where we squealed [...]

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How do you say it? Ley-chon… LAY-shon? Lech-ON. Bah-binka? BaaaaBINGka. We all sounded a little silly but as a volunteers at Six Taste’s Filipino Cuisine and Wine Tasting event Friday night, we all wanted to say it right. We ended up serving more than 80 people  adobo drumettes, lechon kawali, chicken empanadas, ube cupcakes, and [...]

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It took just one look at these cupcakes to bring back memories of singing along to Rainbow Brite while twirling around my living room clutching imaginary moon beams in my hands. Break one of these cupcakes open and it’s instant happiness. Don’t even resist smiling, it’s impossible! I was looking for an easy  yet fun [...]

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Whipped the most delicious batch of cupcakes at the last minute so thought I’d share for those of you who don’t have time to be Martha Stewart. I’ll admit that since I’ve had some leisure time on my hands I’ve been elitist at the thought of ready to make items from the store. Yesterday I [...]

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I’m always on the look out for a good cupcake recipe. I found this one for graham cracker cupcakes with  key lime cream cheese frosting this week. The photo in the blog looked like a hand held version of  pie and I just love eating mini-morsels of everything. I knew it… I was in for [...]

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