The Birthday Menu: Grilled Filet Oscar with Lump Crab, Seared Diver Scallops, Pan Fried Lobster Tail, and Crab Stuffed Mushrooms

Recently my significant other had a milestone birthday in her world.  We did nice dinner out thing, the party with friends thing, and then a Sunday with the family thing.  It wasnt until after her birthday was done that we got some time to celebrate it just the two of us.  I asked her if she wanted to go out somewhere, or just have me cook at home.  Quite excitedly (for which Im not sure why) she chose a meal at home and then placed...

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Why hello, there! How was your Monday??

Im still ready for Friday again, but my Monday did include delicious chocolate chip cookies, so it was a definite added bonus! I still want to work on this recipe, as its not quite what I wanted, but none the less these are pretty stinkin tasty so its still worth a share! I promise.

Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients: 1 cup whole wheat flour 1 1/4 cup all purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon sea salt 1/2 cup vegan cane sugar 1/4 cup cocoa powder 2/3 cup almond milk 1/2 cup...

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Time for the wonderful weekend activities to come to an end and the work to begin! I wish tomorrow was Friday again, but alas, back to work we go.

It was a great weekend though, I certainly cant complain. Someone I know *cough* Erik *cough* is turning 30 on Wednesday so I spent a large portion of the weekend planning out some foods to make for his birthday party thats going to be next Saturday.

2011 Plaza Art Fair

On Friday night, we went and checked out with Plaza Art Fair. This was the 80th Annual art fair thats become a yearly traditional...

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Johnny’s is a place that has been around forever (since 1977) but hadn’t received much attention or respect, at least in my circles. That may have changed a little when His Doucheness Guy Fieri dropped by a while back on his “Kansas City Barbecue Tour” for Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives . This place came across very well on the program and the food looked great on TV, but everyone I know who had been there said Johnny’s just wasn’t very good.

Apparently not everyone feels that way, because when I stopped by recently, this fairly spacious BBQ joint on Broadmoor was full of people at...

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Happy Friday, you guys!!

I thought Id turn the Share the Love tables a little bit this Friday and share a few fun things from Pinterest . In case you havent gotten in on all the Pinterest fun yet, its basically consists of virtual boards that you can pin your favorite things on, in whatever categories you set up. In other words, its tons of fun. Check out my boards to see what I mean.

CAUTION: its very addictive {but in a good way most of the time}! Anyways, heres a few fun things Ive pinned

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Mr. Tea (Being the...

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