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What To Do With Your Leftover Halloween Candy? Make Snickers Magic Bars!

November 5, 2014

Want to see something really pathetic?

This is our Halloween candy bowl on Halloween night. See any kids crowded around it, happily selecting their favorite pieces? Neither do I.

See, what happened is that last year I was expecting to have no trick or treaters (because we don't live in a very trick or treating-friendly neighborhood, and also because it was raining), and didn't buy very much candy, and then at 10PM about five hundred teenagers showed up at my front door, requiring me to do a mad dash around our house in search of errant candy corn and such.

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Party Hack: Lazy Lady Sangria

October 29, 2014

A suggestion for this weekend's festivities: be lazy.

So lazy.

Look, I love making sangria from scratch. Mostly I love how it tastes, but it's also fun customizing your own blends with whatever fruits are in season at the moment. But when you're talking about serving in bulk, sangria transforms from "adorable homemade touch" to "enormous pain in the butt."

Presenting: Lazy Lady Sangria.

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Chocolate Pumpkin Seed Bark

October 21, 2014

I love candy corn as much as the next girl, but sometimes you want something a little less sugar-saturated on Halloween. Maybe even – dare I say it? – a tiny bit healthy (and no, I’m not advising you to hand out boxes of raisins to trick o’ treaters instead of Snickers bars – I’m not that much of a Scrooge).

Presenting: a festive – and at least semi-good-for-you – twist on a seasonal favorite. The dark chocolate contains antioxidants that help to protect your skin from UV damage and fight free radicals, and the pumpkin seeds contain zinc and selenium to help boost your skin’s collagen production and protect against environmental pollution. To get even more skin protection (yes, even in the cool weather), don’t forget to moisturize with an SPF-containing product like Simple Skincare Protecting Light Moisturizer SPF 15.

A dessert that’s addictively delicious and phenomenal for your face? Win.

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Easy Steak & Avocado Fajitas

October 6, 2014

An addition to my roster of blink-and-they're done dinners: these. We're talking ten minutes. (Well, ten minutes if you don't include a couple of hours of zero-labor marinating…which I suppose you don't have to do, but it makes a huge difference.)

I've been making these minimum once a week lately, mostly to take advantage of these last few weeks of grilling-outdoors weather, but you can totally make them on a stovetop grill, no problem (because they're made with thinly sliced skirt steak, they cook up super-fast). They're great for an easy weeknight dinner, but if you just double (or triple) the ingredients you can just as easily serve dinner to a whole party (which is what I did last night - and the best part is that you really don't need any side dishes with these; just add prosecco and everyone will be happy).

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The Last Meal

September 25, 2014

In one of Anthony Bourdain's books, he talks about how he and his chef friends used to meet at Blue Ribbon Sushi late at night, after their shifts were over, and the conversation would inevitably turn to the Death Row Meal: what they would choose for the very last meal of their life. For virtually everyone, the choice wasn't some fancy dish from a five-star restaurant, but rather either sushi (go figure) or an old childhood favorite: their grandmother's spaghetti and meatballs; their father's chicken pot pie; a couple of slices of warm, buttered bread.

It's that way for everyone, I think. When I think about what I'd want for my last meal, what's always popped into my mind has been my mother's spaghetti with meat sauce and homemade biscuits with lots of butter. But then, a couple of years ago, I had a meal that was so perfect, so delicious and hearty and comforting and exactly what I want to eat all the time that it immediately vaulted into the Death Row Meal position.

Sorry, mom.

It's this.

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