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A New Look and a Recipe for Margaritas w/ Lemon & Basil

A New Look and a Recipe for Margaritas w/ Lemon & Basil

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My website has been redesigned! Hooray! Let’s celebrate the fresh new look with a refreshing cocktail. Here’s a recipe for Margaritas with Lemon and Basil. All the fun of a margarita but a bit more elegant (kinda like my new blog: fun and elegant, dontcha think?).

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The Make It Mine Club: Take Classic Dishes Home

Make it Mine Club: Making Classic Dishes Your Own

Introducing The Make It Mine Club where every two weeks you get a recipe challenge to take a classic dish and make it your own. Vegan? Gluten free? Kid-friendly? Stress-free entertaining? Bring it on!

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Our #PinChatLive is Tonight!

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Our #PinChatLive is tonight (Monday March 25) at 9pm EDT. Click here to find the way into the chat and to learn more about what a #PinChatLive is. You’ll find out quickly that it’s a lot of fun!

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New On Pinterest: The Revolutionary #PinChatLive

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What’s new on Pinterest? We’re making Pinterest history tonight with a new event. It’s a #PinChatLive – a chat happening live on a Pinterest Board. Tonight’s theme is Dips. Read on to join us.

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An Easy Dip Recipe For March Madness

A Good Dip Makes You Happy. Vote for Double Down South Dip in the Lipton(r) Dip to Win Sweepstakes for your chance to win 1500 dollars or one of 30 dip warmers. And because it will make you happy.

My Double Down South Dip is a finalist in the Lipton® Dip to Win Sweepstakes. Check out the recipe and find out why voting for it will make you and me happy.

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All About Making Cocktails w/ Nutmeg Nanny

Home Sweet Home, an easy cocktail with Butterscotch schnapps, Irish Cream, Cinnamon and Cloves in honor of The Oscars Best Picture nominee Beasts of the Southern Wild, recipe by www.cookthestory.com

if you love sipping on an innovative cocktail at your favorite bar, now you can start making cocktails like that at home. Find out where Katie’s Cucina, Nutmeg Nanny and I get our drink inspirations and more.

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Why You Should Be On Google Plus

Christine Pittman's Profile Page on Google+

Google Plus is used by the media, marketers, bloggers and writer. Now here’s why you should be on Google Plus too. It turns out Google Plus serves a purpose for “normal people” too.

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CtS Best Recipes of 2012

Best Recipes of 2012

As I sit down this morning to think about New Year’s resolutions, those things that I hope will be different about this year, there isn’t much that comes to mind. I want to exercise a bit more and eat a bit healthier (stay tuned for some healthified recipes from me). I want to find more [...]

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Holiday Open House on Google+

Holiday Open House with thelittlekitchen.net, droolius.com, sweetremedy.com and orlandoseafoodlady.com

Six months ago Katie from Katie’s Cucina and I sat down and faced our computer screens for our first Google+ Hangout. It was a chat about tomatoes and no, I’m not going to give you the link. OH MY GOD, was it ever embarrassingly terrible! After that long and painful-to-watch video we adjusted the format [...]

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Peppermint Hot Chocolate Float & Feeling Normal

Peppermint Hot Chocolate Recipe, easy flavored hot chocolate

On Sunday evening, after having spent a lovely few days with my brother and his family who are visiting from Canada and with my parents who have snow-birded in, the hubs and I took the kids for a walk to see all of our neighbors’ homes glittering with lights. M loves little lights

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