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March 4, 2015
At Home with Friends

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Chocolate Dipped Coconut Macaroons

If you follow my blog, you know that I make cookies for every party. Maybe it’s the child within us that smiles when we reach for a cookie. At this party, at Krista’s request, we ordered a glorious cake from her favorite bakery. I know the pastry chef who created this confection and it’s stellar […]

Baby Shower Menu

Appetizers

* Crudités (GF)

* Camembert with fig jam

Buffet

Boneless chicken breasts stuffed with goat cheese and sun dried tomatoes

* Mushroom and chard galette

* Tortellini salad with spinach, cherry tomatoes and lemon dressing

* Asparagus with artichoke hearts and orange zest (GF)

* Pasta, chard and fontina torte (GF)

Shrimp salad with feta cheese and olives on a bed of fennel (GF)

* Quinoa salad with roasted vegetables (GF)

Desserts

* Black and white cake (purchased from La Provence Patisserie & Cafe)

* Chocolate dipped coconut macaroons

* Pink grapefruit cookies

* Party cookies

* One-bite cherry pies

Beverage

Strawberry rosé spritzer

(GF) Gluten Free

* Vegetarian

February 18, 2015

February 16, 2015
At Home with Friends

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Baby Shower Party

  It was wonderful news to hear that my friend Krista, who does a lot of the beautiful photography on this blog, was having a baby. Then I got the news that it was a girl.  I immediately volunteered to give a baby shower. Krista and I had lots of conversations about the shower and […]