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Come back tonight when I will post my first Bake-Off adventure!  Upon arrival in Orlando, we are being whisked away to a fun dinner party.  I’ll write when I am back at the hotel! In the meantime, here are some Bake-Off trivia questions to ponder: 1)  Only one teenager has ever won the Bake-Off grand prize.  What […]

I am leaving tomorrow for the Pillsbury Bake-Off in Orlando!  I’ll be meeting my daughter Kristina there, too, and we are looking forward to an amazing time.  I’ll be reporting back over the weekend, so check back often!  I’ll try to give an update on our activities – but if you don’t happen to hear from […]

Here is the 2nd blog for the Pillsbury.com site about our adventures making and photographing all the grand prize-winning Bake-Off winners: http://www.pillsbury.com/Bakeoff/Blog/ViewBlog/bake-off45blog/2012/03/22/baking-the-bake-off-174-contest-mother-daughter-team-tackles-the-winners-all-of-them/19255# Check back all weekend long and up until Tuesday for our future blogs from the Bake-Off floor!

Check out this blog from General Mills about our three-generation Bake-Off family: http://blog.generalmills.com/2012/03/the-ultimate-bake-off-family/ Also, check back later in the day today, when Pillsbury will have another blog and I’ll post the link! 

After almost a year of writing my Bake-Off blogs every Wednesday, I thought it might be fun to put together the grocery list it took to prepare all fifty winning recipes.  Remember, there are not 44 winners in the last 44 contests, because in Bake-Off’s 23 through 28 there were two grand prize winners in each of those […]

If you didn’t read about the wild Curtis Stone party from yesterday’s blog, scroll down and read part one.  As we left off on day one, I promised a fun giveaway from the party.  No, it’s not Curtis, but you get to see his face! This was the party bag given to us as we left Paris […]

This is the entryway into the Curtis Stone party at Paris Club in Chicago, one of the hottest places in town at the moment.  During his stay at the recent International Home and Housewares Show introducing his new line of kitchen items, Curtis threw a heck of an invitation-only party.  My daughter Kristina and I were […]

Mad Men is back on the air next Sunday, March 25th,  for a new and exciting season.  But before the premiere, how about hosting a Mad Men party?  Everything you need is in this great new cookbook, “The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook.”  The book contains tips on throwing a successful ’60’s cocktail party, and a guide […]