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With all the rich foods of the holidays – ham, cookies, rum cake…oh the rum cake! – we needed to lighten things up tonight.  So I thought I’d try making a black bean soup. I found this Black Bean and Vegetable Soup recipe on All Recipes (it had great reviews), and tweaked it a bit. I [...]

I don’t know if you know this about me, but I love tea. I’ll take a good Irish Breakfast tea any day.  The sweeter, the blacker and the creamier it is, the more I like it. I think half the fun of my trip to Ireland was drinking entire pots of tea throughout the day.  Yes, [...]

In the winter (or what passes for winter here in LA) I can’t get enough of tea.  Strangely enough though, once the warmer temperatures hit, I turn to iced coffee.  And while iced coffee may well be one of the least expensive things on your local coffee shop’s menu, it’s super easy to make at [...]

Image by Me! Too bad it took 20 minutes of the screaming of the smoke detector to get them.  No matter, I have yummy muffins made in my brand new, non-gas-leaking oven! The best part, the apartment doesn’t feel crazy hot.  Then again, that could be because I have every window open, three fans running and a [...]

Can’t you just see how soused this cake is? And it should be considering it’s got half a bottle of rum in it!!! Now that’s what I call holiday baking! Mmmm…good! SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Rum Cake Yum!", url: "http://labloggergal.com/2008/12/19/rum-cake-yum/" });

Here are a couple of day after photos from the Universal backlot fire. What a mess. Universal wreckage #2 Originally uploaded by blue439. Universal wreckage #1 Originally uploaded by blue439. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Universal Backlot Fire: The Day After", url: "http://labloggergal.com/2008/06/03/universal-backlot-fire-the-day-after/" });

Well, maybe it’s not that big of a deal that I need to be all ASAP, but you I do need a recipe. I’ve got book club tomorrow in Santa Monica – no I didn’t read the book, but I did mean to – and I’ve decided to bring pasta salad. I [...]

I made my very first scarf!! No before getting too excited, let’s remember that it’s a no-knit scarf. But I still did it! And I think I’m going to make one more too using this other bulky yarn that I have. My suggestions, figure out a way to stick that baby still. I [...]

When I’m sick I don’t tend to get whiney and whimpy. I’m more than able to take care of myself. But I do tend to crave food from my childhood. Sadly, this can be a challenge as I either can’t get the foods since I’m not in Jersey or because I [...]

I’ve just recently starting watching Giada De Laurentiis and Everything Italian. In fact, I first started watching her just this past week after stumbling on the Weekend Getaway episode when she was up in Santa Barbara (I’ve only been to SB twice now and I’ve yet to really do anything touristy so I’m always [...]