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Curb Your Cravings - Not Your Enthusiasm
January is the month of revival, whispers all around of a better year - aspirations held for those resolutions you have either penned to paper, or kept quietly in your thoughts.According to data published from various studies published throughout ...
How sweet it is: The Skinny on Low Glycemic Sweeteners
The market for alternative sweeteners has started blossoming into quite the selection - no longer are consumers tied down to shopping at obscure health food stores or sending away bulk orders to specialty shops to find alternative ingredients, now s...
Children's Toy Review: Counting Bunnies Puzzle
In this day and age store bought toys are a dime a dozen and their designs and novelty are temporary if not fleeting. Even the quality is not as it once was, with giant companies racing to cut over head by outsourcing to factories with shaky safety r...
Chocolate Landing on The Floor - Not In Your Mouth
When I am working with chocolate - be it chocolate sauce, tempered chocolate, ganache or chocolate buttercream I have a tendency to slob the stuff around. Somehow I end up with it all 0ver the sleeves of my chef jacket or apron. When you are in a tim...
Encourage Your Little Chef, while Encouraging Listening Skills
When foodies envision the perfect pizza, the visions are filled with wonderful and exotic ingredients - the texture, the smells and the very process of the pizza production conjure up such great memories and mouthwatering fantasy of new creations.Whe...
From Bottles to Bags - Green is both Cool & Responsible
In keeping with my eco-friendly theme lately on Renaissance Culinaire I have reviewed two great bags. These bags are not from your typical company who creates a few pieces for their product line that cater to the Green market. These are in fact creat...
Product Review: I-Spy Memory Game
Many occasions on long car trips you may have played I-spy as a child or now play it with your children or grandchildren. Calling out the familiar phrase "I spy with my little eye...", hoping to baffle those trying to figure out what exactly it is th...
Product Review: Scrubbing Bubbles' Action Scrubber
Recently My Mom sent me this really cool vintage counter top metal cabinet. It has 4 deep drawers on the top for storage of dry goods, and a bread box on the bottom. I had decided to position it right below my cabinet on the largest counter , which h...
Product Review: See Me Read Kit - Complete
Have you wished there was an educational product out there - one you could add your child's pic to, that would help him/her get better at reading ? See Me Read is a product aimed at helping early readers succeed. After seeing her success from working...
Product Review : Screen, Inc's Tween Screen
As an eczema sufferer and a very allergy prone person, I am always weary of trying new lotions or creams - afraid of the onslaught of terrible itching a wrong ingredient will send my skin reeling from. Most of the time I loath even "sensitive skin" ...
Game Review : The Tuttles Madcap Misadventures
I am reviewing this The Tuttles PC Game, in hopes to spread the word for a worthy cause. Proceeds of the $20 dollar purchase price is being donated to Starlight Star Bright Children's Foundation. Fifty percent of the retail proceeds from game sales...
