sweet potato curry

This dish was a bit too spicy for my taste buds, but Tyler loved it!  It is from the most recent issue of Cooking Light and it’s an interesting use for sweet potatoes.

Sweet Potato Chicken Curry (from Cooking Light)
 
Ingredients
2  teaspoons  curry powder
1  teaspoon  ground coriander
1  teaspoon  ground turmeric
1/2  teaspoon  salt
1/2  teaspoon  black pepper
1/4  teaspoon  ground [...]

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Sugar Cookie Frosting

I absolutely love this sugar cookie recipe, made it for the first time last Christmas and it’s a keeper.  However I’ve been having trouble finding a frosting recipe that
1) contains no shortening or margarine or corn syrup, ingredients I hate using.
2) dries well enough that you can stack the cookies after they are frosted
and
3) tastes [...]

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San Francisco: The Cheesy

Well this was deserving of a post all its own!  On our last day in SF we had lunch at Slanted Door and then walked around the Ferry Building, which was not nearly as crowded as it had been on Saturday morning.  We decided to indulge in some bread, cheese, and sweets for our last [...]

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San Francisco: The Sweet

Previously: The Good and The Not as Good
There were many many delicious sweets to be found in San Francisco, here are the ones we sampled:
gelato at Naia in North Beach
divine!  fabulous fabulous gelato!  On the left, vanilla and pumpkin, on the right, chocolate and cherry chocolate chip

Jelly Belly Factory in Fairfield, CA
Tyler and I share [...]

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San Francisco: The Not as Good

So none of our meals in San Francisco were bad by any means, but a few were disappointing or just sub par.  But I photographed them and tried to make them look pretty!
In N Out Burger at the Wharf
We were so hungry when we first arrived at our hotel, so we walked a couple of [...]

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San Francisco: The Good

Tyler and I recently took a long weekend trip to San Francisco, here are some of the best meals we had:
Calzone’s in North Beach
we picked this restaurant randomly after walking around North Beach and checking out menus.  They had an open table on the patio and the food we saw on the plates of diners [...]

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Spicy Thai

Tyler picked this recipe out of the latest Cooking Light.  If you haven’t checked out CL recently you should.  Last month they launched their new design, with a photo of EVERY recipe.  It is fantastic.  Many more recipes than before, and less of the travel/exercise/beauty filler they were using so much of before.  This noodle [...]

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