Author: Tina

Mocha Smoothie

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I meant to pick up vanilla yogurt at the grocery store.  Can you imagine my surprise when I opened up the container at home and saw vanilla yogurt with chocolate chunks in it?  Man, I hate it when I pick up the wrong food by accident.  Does that ever happen to you? It turns out it was a happy accident because I couldn’t stop eating this yogurt.  I dove into it like it was ice cream and I was cheating the dessert police during breakfast time.  Isn’t that always fun?  Well, to a sweet junkie like me, it is.  🙂 It’s …

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Grilled Ham And Brie

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Have you ever tried to recreate a meal that you enjoyed at a restaurant?  That’s what I did today.  Except in this case it was a meal my husband loved. Let me set the scene.  Montreal, Canada in 2011.  My husband and I were starving and choosing a place for lunch felt like an impossible mission.  We were on a street with literally a dozen places to eat and we found ourselves utterly unable to decide.  We finally chose this little cafe (in the photo below).  My husband thought he was ordering an ordinary ham and cheese sandwich, but it turned out to be …

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Too Much Chocolate Cake

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Let’s be real.  Can there ever be too much chocolate cake?  I think not. OMG, I just realized that this looks like a ginormous doughnut!  Sweet.  But really, it’s a bundt cake.  I guess I’ve been in a bundt mood lately.  First with my Gingerbread Bundt Cakes and now this one. This cake is a chocoholic’s dream.  Seriously, I don’t think that it is humanly possible for me to have included more chocolate here.  You’ve got a chocolate cake, loaded with chocolate chips, topped with a rich chocolate ganache, and miniature chocolate chips sprinkled on top.  See, I told you …

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A Tina’s Chic Christmas

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Christmas starts early in our home.  It’s tradition for us to get our tree on the weekend immediately after Thanksgiving.  My husband strings the lights on the tree and I decorate it with the ornaments.  Don’t you love my husband’s game ornaments next to elegant ones?  😉 It takes me most of the day to decorate the tree.  Every ornament has its spot.  I’m kinda finicky that way.  Which now that I think of it, may be why my husband doesn’t want to help. We host lots of holiday dinner parties.  It’s our thing.  This year I used red accents for the dinner …

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Gingerbread Bundt Cakes

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Holy cow, how is it December 22 already?  I’d better get my gingerbread groove on before the holiday season is over! Why is it that we only tend to eat gingerbread goodies during this time of the year?  I mean you can find the ingredients all year long.  Maybe it’s nostalgic to crave cinnamon, ginger, and allspice at Christmas time?  Or perhaps because it’s hard to find fresh fruit this time of the year (at least in the New England area) and that means we branch out to spices instead.  Whatever the reason is, I need my fill because I love …

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