Love and Lust for Life: Summer Feelin…

Summer is officially here! Yeay!!! even though June gloom will keep temps below average around these parts for a bit longer :(

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Nonetheless, kids are out of school, traffic is lighter, hemlines are shorter and seasonal fruits and veggies abound...Delicioso!!!

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Looking forward to some camping by the beach, outdoor meals with friends & family and trying out some ocean paddle boarding 0.0 Hooooooray for Summer 2012!!!

Ciao for now  :*

Product Lust: Peonies…

Enjoying Peony season courtesy of Trader Joe’s…These capricious blooms are my very fave! I await their flighty arrival with great anticipation each year…Lightly fragrant and gorgeous even as buds, but when they are in full bloom...Watch Out! This is one knockout of a flower!!!

The pink and coral varieties are my preference, but I really love them ALL. So I plan on heading back to TJ’s this weekend for another magnificent bunch, and just keep going back for más y más until they are finally done for the season, which hopefully won’t be for a few more precious weeks…Fingers crossed ;)

Feliz Fin and Ciao for now  :*

Food Lust: Melt in Your Mouth Joy!!!

Today is National Doughnut Day and I wanna give a huge, glazed covered smooch :* to whomever came up with this wonderful “Holiday” celebrating this most humble but divine of treats…Muchas Gracias!!!

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Donuts have always been a weakness of mine :$ One only worsened by a fateful evening back in 1999; after a 20+ mile ride, piled into my friends POS of a car, for what he claimed would be the doughnut experience of a lifetime…”You’ve never had anything like it…These melt in your mouth!” Nonsense, I thought as I rolled my eyes and continued to inhale fumes from his faulty exhaust...

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Having always enjoyed the doughier, more traditional cake like donuts, I could not wrap my mind around the melt in your mouth concept! “What exactly does he mean they will melt in my mouth???” I kept thinking, as we finally pulled into the parking lot of what would later become Mecca; much to my thighs chagrin :&

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And as we ordered these small, glazed, lightly fried, pillows of dough, I harbored no grandiose expectations. But, as soon I bit into the first one I was hooked….and Boy! Do they EVER melt in your mouth!!!! So start your weekend off by claiming your FREE Krispy Kreme Doughnut ...I’ve already had mine ;)

Feliz Fin and Ciao for now  :*