Daily Archives: March 14, 2009

The Saturday Seven

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The Saturday Seven

I am always on the internet.  Searching for new things to find.  Be it food, restaurants, shops, website.  Anything.  So I have decided to start writing the Saturday Seven.  The Saturday Seven will be the seven top sites I have visited or found that week.  I am constantly e-mail friends about sites, so this would be the perfect place to keep them.  It is ridiculous how many sites I have bookmarked or e-mailed.  Enjoy!

1.  Vosges – I am completely in love with their Mini Dark Exotic Candy Bar Library.  They also have the most outrageous candy bar ever – A Bacon Bar.  That’s right. You read right.  A Bacon Bar. 

2.  Cashmere and Cupcakes – This site makes me want to dress better.  Makes me wish that I had her style.  Unfortunately I don’t but I still love reading about hers.

3.  Apartment Therapy – Don’t we all need a little Therapy now and then?  This site is always my go to when I need ideas for K and my apartment.

4.  Sur La Table – I want to buy EVERYTHING.  Enough said.

5.  Smitten Kitchen – An amazing cook. An amazing website. 

6.  Rebecca Thuss – If I had the money I would have her design my wedding.  Completely gorgeous!

7.  Cannelle-vanille – Every photograph is amazing.  Makes me wish I could design food as exquisitely as they do.

Who has all the cookbooks in the library? I do. I do.

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Sometimes I find that I can’t get enough of cookbooks.  The local public library is always missing some because it seems that is all I want to take out.  I do like to search each cookbook for dishes I have never made before.  As of late I have been searching for more exotic flavors. Geographically faraway dishes with flair.  Since I don’t have the money right now to travel, I try to take the trip right in my kitchen.  I have been researching dumplings, pork buns and pot stickers.  I love Asian cuisine and hope to learn more techniques and dishes from the culture.  I have been able to perfect sushi so now onto something a bit harder.  I have always loved to learn new things and cooking is ever changing.  There is always a new technique or flavor that you can learn about.  Sometimes I am amazed what people do with food.  How they come up with a unique flavor or just how it is presented.  I have been thinking a lot lately about going into the food business.  It has been on my mind for years, but for some reason this year it has been front and center.  I enjoy making and presenting food, but can I make it in the food business?  Who knows.  We will have to see what the future brings…