Category Archives: Life

Holiday Craft: Salt Dough Gift Tags

Posted on Monday, December 12, 2011 by Crumby Icing
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Have you heard of the site Pinterest?  It’s basically Google Images but with an easy repinning function turning it into a social media tool.  I had downloaded it onto my phone and didn’t pay any attention to it until recently.  Now I look at it for an hour a day and have about 40 craft projects lined up for myself – it’s DIY porn, 24×7. I love gorgeously-wrapped presents with handmade fabric bows, simple kraft paper, and custom tags.  You can imagine now … Continue reading →

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Holiday Craft: Candied Ginger

Posted on Friday, December 9, 2011 by Crumby Icing
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Ginger is a very polarizing root.  Having grown up with it in almost every dish (ginger is to Asians as garlic is to Italians), I like a pronounced ginger flavor in both cooking and baking.  But my husband and probably most other people from his western European family?  Blechhh.  I never really understood why they all love hot peppers so much but couldn’t stand the spicy bite of ginger root. Enter young, or baby, ginger.  Young ginger is picked in … Continue reading →

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You Must Go Now: OWowCow Creamery Open in Wrightstown

Posted on Tuesday, July 5, 2011 by Crumby Icing
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If you didn’t know, it’s National Ice Cream Month.  But who cares?  To me, every month is National Ice Cream Month. OWowCow Creamery opened its second location today in Wrightstown, PA, and we had to take a stop there 10 minutes before it closed to get a fix.  I tell you, folks, there was too much ice cream left in the case for their own good. OWowCow is our hands down favorite place to go for ice cream in Bucks … Continue reading →

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Quick Fix: Lemon Basil Ricotta

Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2011 by Crumby Icing
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In the spring of my senior year of college, I invited 25 of my closest friends over for an intimate dinner party in the house I shared with 4 other girls.  It’s one of my fondest hostess memories – we’re talking formal invitations, choice of entree and dessert, semi-formal dress, rent the place settings kind of affair. It was the first real party I hosted and just the first of dozens where I would still be in my pajamas when … Continue reading →

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