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Now that’s a chocolate cake
A Restaurant Insider recipe Cake ingredients 2 1/2 cups cake flour, unbleached and organic 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon sea salt or fleur de sel 1 1/2 sticks unsalted organic butter, room temperature 2 cups sugar 3 3/4 ounces semisweet fair trade dark chocolate, melted 1 teaspoon vanilla seeds 2 eggs 1 1/2…
Bears love community and weekend-long BearQuakes
San Diego recently played host to Bears San Diego, which presented BearQuake 2011. And this year’s theme was “Bearlesque!” The weekend kicked off with a social, a snack, a few sips and “Bearaoke” at the Redwing, Pecs and Baja Betty’s. Throughout the event, I noticed that there was a high level of support for local…
Hooked, Hawaii and Halloween
Hello my dear readers. I am glad to say that I am no longer taking applications for possible boyfriends. Yes, I am off the market and on to another adventure and, so far, it looks like it will be a fun and smooth ride. How did we meet? Well, the movie version is that I…
Fall TV report card
The fall TV season is in full swing and some of the shows have already been strung up in a hangman’s noose, but they haven’t left viewers twisting in the wind about their ability to hold us enraptured. It has truly been a case of survival of the fittest, and some series have been gone…