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See, one of my New Year's Resolutions is to finish work before the Captain Awesome and Little HRH are home from school. That means, I should not be blogging at this hour. But, my blogger friend, Ces, shared this video of 25 Ways to Wear a Scarf last night and I find it really, uhm, in
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Chef and I have been together for 6 years and I never learned how to make Spanish rice until now. I love it, obviously, and I can’t get enough of it whenever we have Mexican food. We discussed over and over what this really is called because it’s been labeled as Spanish rice, though it’s not t
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New Year, new channel!
We are launching Mirror, Mirror as a new channel for our Le Critique series to showcase our reviews on beauty vanity products. We are not particularly experts in these, but we'll try our best.
Like many other unfortunate souls, I suffered from horrible acne breakout i
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It's been a while since we did an On the Loose post. Not that we haven't done any shopping. On the contrary, I think I have reached my [self-imposed] quota for 2011. Now, before you play the world's smallest violins for me, 2012 is just a few days away. I'll be resetting my shopping count to zero ve
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Happy Holidays, one and all!!
Yes, yes, my greeting, along with blogposts, are a tad bit delayed. Nonetheless, it's never too late for a good dessert recipe.
There's actually quite a story behind my Russian Tea Cake mini obsession. Three years ago, I took an interim position at another departm
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Um and I have been skimming the pages of the Yummy Filipino Favorites recipe book that my MIL sent since we got it, but never really cooked anything from it until a week or so ago. Um saw the bagoong (shrimp paste) that I bought from the Filipino store when my parents were over for a visit and dec
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Millions from all over the world lined the streets of Midtown Manhattan in New York City early Thursday morning to secure great spots for the 85th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. The parade began promptly at 9:00 am on Central Park West at West 77th Street and traveled south. Then, it veered left
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This song is from the original soundtrack of the movie, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. The movie stars Michael Cera from Juno. I have got to say, I'm impressed with his role choices. I couldn't imagine anyone else playing Scott Pilgrim. Check this movie out! It's one of those I-don't-have-to-use-my-b
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The Melt New Montgomery
115 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Grilled cheese. American classic. So utterly simple. Get someone like Jonathan Kaplan, founder of the Flip camera, to complicate it and make it simple all over again. This guy made several hundreds of million
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I am constantly on the lookout for easy recipes that I can prepare for my family. Since moving to the east coast, I have been cooking and baking more than I have ever had in my entire life. I have said so many times that I am not so good in the kitchen. But I am sure as hell that I am very good at f
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When I started design school, my professor said, "believe me, you will never look at space the same way again." I didn't believe her much because I felt that for someone who's forte is not in space planning, I have a pretty good grasp of how areas should be laid out. But, I was determined to be prov
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