The Gallery of Favorites August 31

Welcome to The Gallery of Favorites, Alea and I are sharing the winner of our Taste of Home Giveaway! To learn who won a copy of their 'Best Loved Recipes' and to share your posts, please click here...

The Hearth and Soul Hop - The Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Edition

Welcome to The Hearth and Soul Hop, the place to share and be inspired by food from the hearth to feed your soul. Thank you to everyone who shared posts last week. My highlights from contributors to last week’s hop include recipes from MJ's Kitchen, Gluten Free Happy Tummy and Little Homestead on the Hill.

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A Gallery of Favorites Taste of Home Giveaway

Today on the Gallery of Favorites, Alea and I are featuring a Taste of Home Giveaway. To read more about it, and to share your posts, please click here...

Wonderful Fall Fashion by CAbi

Photo courtesy of CAbi

When I saw the CAbi collection at the wonderful Style Suite hosted by Momtrends and Savvy Sassy Moms, I couldn’t wait to start trying the pieces on! CAbi, or Carol Anderson by invitation, is a fabulous line of high quality designer clothes, brought to you at home by a trained fashion consultant. 

I was so impressed by the quality and fit of this marvellous collection, and I was even more excited when I saw what they have planned for Fall! 

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Ben & Jerry’s Announcement of the Winners of Join Our Core Sustainable Business Competition

Photo courtesy of Ben & Jerry's
Join Our Core Competition

Jenny Dawson, a young entrepreneur from London, was crowned as the first ever UK winner of Ben & Jerry’s Join Our Core competition. Jenny is one of five overall winners who will each win a €10,000 cash prize and six months specialist mentoring from Ashoka to help grown their business. They will also each have their business immortalised on an exclusive, new commemorative Ben & Jerry’s flavour in 2013. 

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Food from the Hearth to Feed Your Soul - The 21st August Edition of the Hearth and Soul Blog Hop

Welcome to The Hearth and Soul Hop, the place to share and be inspired by food from the hearth to feed your soul. Thank you to everyone who linked up last week. My highlights from contributors to last week’s hop include recipes from Veggie Converter, Gluten Free SCD and Veggie, Cookin the Keys and Cook with Sara. 

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Three Days of Meatless Meals

It’s been a few weeks since I have published a Meatless Monday post, and this week I wanted to do something different. I’ve developed quite a collection of meatless recipes over the last couple of years and I realised that with a bit of thought, I could compile them into some delicious menu plans. 

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The Gallery of Favorites Featuring Urban Chickens

Alea of Premeditated Leftovers and I want to welcome you to our weekend blog hop; The Gallery of Favorites, a place to share your favorite posts from your own blog. 

Thank you to everyone who shared posts last week. This week Alea and I are featuring a post about urban chickens from Diary of A Small Town Earth Muffin. 

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The Hearth & Soul Blog Hop

Welcome to The Hearth and Soul Hop, the place to share and be inspired by food from the hearth to feed your soul. Thank you to everyone who linked up last week. My highlights from contributors to last week’s hop include recipes from On The Home Front, Fox in the Kitchen and Two Taste Buds.

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Best Loved Recipes

Wouldn’t it be great to have a peek into recipe boxes across America to see the favourite recipes of home cooks just like us? Taste of Home has made it possible with their newly published ‘Best Loved Recipes’, a collection of recipes from home cooks, complied and tested by the Taste of Home test kitchens. ‘Best Loved Recipes’ brings together more than 1,400 of the most treasured recipes, each with its own story, gathered over 20 years.

While at BlogHer ’12, I was invited to the Reader’s Digest/Taste of Home Suite to interview Karen Berner, Food Editor of Taste of Home, about this new volume. 

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The 10th August Edition of The Gallery of Favorites

Alea of Premeditated Leftovers and I want to welcome you to our weekend blog hop; The Gallery of Favorites, a place to share your favorite posts from your own blog. 

Thank you to everyone who shared posts last week. This week Alea and I are featuring a post from the Healthy Frugalista. 

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Lisa of Happy in Dole Valley's Yacolt, Washington - The Place Where I Live

Photo credit Happy in Dole Valley

This post is the fourth in a new series of guest posts called The Place Where I Live. Learning a bit about the place people call home is a great way to get to know them better, and also makes a wonderful resource of insider knowledge for places you might like to visit one day. (If you love the place where you live, and would like to write a guest post in this series, please email me.) 

Lisa of Happy in Dole Valley is a wife and mother who lives in Washington state. She is a really lovely lady with a wonderfully positive outlook. I met her through the blog hops I host, and she has become a great blogging friend. I’m so happy that she has agreed to be part of The Place Where I Live series. So without further ado, over to Lisa! 

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The August 7th Edition of The Hearth and Soul Hop

Welcome to The Hearth and Soul Hop, the place to share and be inspired by food from the hearth to feed your soul. Thank you to everyone who linked up last week. My highlights from contributors to last week’s hop include recipes from Gluten Free, SCD and Veggie, Savoring Today and Gluten Free A - Z Blog. 

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My Week at BlogHer '12

Katie Couric with Lisa Stone at BlogHer' 12

I’m absolutely buzzing after three wonderful days at BlogHer ’12. I met so many lovely people and learned such a lot. I’m feeling so inspired, and I’m developing some very exciting plans.  To read more, please click here...

The Gallery of Favorites - Peaches

Alea of Premeditated Leftovers and I want to welcome you to our weekend blog hop; The Gallery of Favorites, a place to share your favorite posts from your own blog. 

Thank you to everyone who shared posts last week. This week Alea and I are featuring three  Made From Scratch posts.

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President Barack Obama Addresses BlogHer '12

The President of the United States addresses BlogHer'12 live via satellite

To say it was an historic occasion is something of an understatement. The excitement in The Grand Ballroom of The Hilton New York was, quite frankly, palpable as we awaited President Barack Obama’s address. 

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