Follow Friday

by Amy

3 Reasons You Should Follow By Little Hands

1. Elyse is like the Martha Stewart for little kids. Her recipes and crafts are fun and easy enough that the whole family can participate.

2. Amongst many other things (including several awesome cupcake recipes), her site categories include crafts with glitter. I love glitter! In my 20′s, I would cover myself with glitter bodylotion before going out for the night. Now, I’m much more mature and resort to painting my toenails with glitter polish. Any website featuring crafts with glitter is a friend of mine.

3. By Little Hands features a guest post  from me! It’s my first guest post and not only was it fun, but it involved cupcakes and I love cupcakes even more than glitter. Ooh! Next time I’m going to decorate them with edibile glitter!

If you have any family recipes/stories involving glitter and/or want to do a guest posting on Amiable Life, contact me at amiablelife@gmail.com

I’m heading down the shore and leaving the house to be guarded by our ferocious pets: Juno and Biggie. They like to roll their robbers in glitter before eating them.

Have a great Labor Day weekend.

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(Mostly) Wordless Wednesday — Jersey Farm Fresh

by amiable

Once you drive past the many, many strip malls in South Jersey you’ll find various farms offering a cornucopia of fresh fruits and vegetables. In the summer months, it’s easy to eat local. Just look for the ‘farm fresh’ sticker on foods. Within walking distance of our house is a farm stand featuring local produce. Photos below are from a recent visit.

Just recently, I sang the praises of NJ farms to Jeff Jaffe, a burger club member. I told him about peach picking and cranberry bogs, rows upon rows of corn fields and soybean plants; blueberries that taste like candied sunlight.
If you haven’t been fruit/vegetable picking lately, I highly recommend it. Apple season is coming soon. Don’t miss it.


Have a favorite farmer’s market or farm stand near you? Leave a message in the comments!

Have a family recipe/story to share on this blog? Email me at amiablelife@gmail.com!

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Burger Club — August

August 29, 2010

Minutes from the August 2010 Burger Club meeting Location: Monk’s Cafe in Philadelphia In Attendance: Jeff Jaffe, Tess Kristensen, Amy Leis, Ron Miller Absent: Andrew Brown First point of order: voting on Chris Geczy’s club membership. Sustenance: A plate of pommes frites with bourbon mayonnaise for dipping and a bucket of Red Light mussels cooked [...]

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Follow Friday — Chocolate & Zucchini

August 27, 2010

Continuing my love of all blogs French, check out Chocolate and Zucchini. Clotilde lives in Monmartre where she cooks, eats, blogs and writes. She is the author of several books including: Chocolate and Zucchini: Daily Adventures in a Parisian Kitchen and Clotilde’s Edible Adventures in Paris It’s obvious Clotilde spends a lot of time on her site. [...]

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(Mostly) Wordless Wednesday — White House Inn Cafe

August 25, 2010

When entering Katie’s house you’ll first encounter a kitchen stool with a call bell and open composition book on top. At seven-years-old, my niece has recently started playing a new game called “hotel.” Part of the hotel tour includes a description of the amenities which, among other things, is a picture of Katie in every [...]

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Country Captain and Strawberry Shortcake

August 22, 2010

Lauren McKinney is a foodie who likes a challenge. Some people might think having a vegetarian staying with them for the summer would be an inconvenience. Lauren saw it as an opportunity to work on her vegetable dishes. (She’s also just one of those really good-hearted people who open their homes to guests and in [...]

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Follow Friday – B Comme Bon

August 20, 2010

I barely passed my year of French with Madame Gross at Harriton High School. Over 20 years later, the only thing I remember how to say is, “je ne comprend pas” which pretty much sums up how well I can translate the beautiful blog B Comme Bon. Based on the gorgeous photos, it looks like [...]

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(Mostly) Wordless Wednesday

August 18, 2010

A little over a month ago, Kevin and I attended the Summer Fancy Food Show sponsored by the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade (NASFT). It had over 2000 exhibitors and took us 5 hours to eat our way through. Lessons Learned: –With so many different foods to taste, it is important to pace yourself! I [...]

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ChristinEats

August 16, 2010

Trying to keep the costs of Blogher10 down, I chose not to stay in the conference hotel. My husband’s family felt strongly that I should not become a CouchSurfer and while they are not the boss of me, I do spend a lot of time with them, so instead I choose to find lodging through [...]

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Follow Friday

August 13, 2010

In what will become a somewhat regular feature of Amiable Life, I’d like to use this space to showcase other bloggers. 101 Cookbooks is an incredible blog and Heidi Swanson continues to inspire me. I learn something new at every visit. Heidi’s recipes are healthy and taste great. Her site design is simple, classic and clean. What’s more, [...]

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