Artichoke Bean Dip with Sweet Onion Recipe

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 Artichoke Bean Dip with Sweet Onion As you can see below,  I bought a lot of artichokes last time I popped into our local discount store, so when I got home, I searched for a new recipe to use some in. I found an old Cooking Light recipe on their website for a Sweet Onion, [...]

New Directions for Burnt Out Mom Bloggers

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Are you a burnt out mom blogger?  Has the thrill of getting a tube of diaper cream, in exchange for your honest opinion, in the form of an article and social promotion, worn off?  Is little Johnny tired of you sticking your camera in his face for blog pictures?  Have you realized your blog is [...]

Greek Chicken and Rice Cake Salad Recipe (Gluten-Free), A Burning Question and a Giveaway

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I created this Greek Chicken and Rice Cake Salad recipe as part of the “Rice Cake Double Take” challenge, to celebrate the addition of three new rice cake flavors from  Lundberg Family Farms. Myself and several other bloggers, were sent the new Lundberg Rice Cake flavors, along with coupons for a mystery ingredient.  As someone [...]

Fully Functional Instagram App Now Available for Windows 8 Phones: Itsdagram Review

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You can now use Instagram on Windows 8 phones.  For those of us who work in social media (and those who are just addicted to sharing snapshots on Instagram), this was a huge stumbling block for the Windows 8 platform.  I know it has been a thorn on my side.  While I can’t stand Windows [...]

Don’t Make My Mistake #springsavings

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It all started on a slushy winter morning. We had gotten a few inches of wet snow and school was delayed an hour. My daughter and I put on our snow boots, trudged out to the SUV and I strapped her in, only to walk over to the passenger side and see the rear tire was stone flat…

“Samurai Slasher” Asian Chicken Drumsticks

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These “Samurai Slasher” Asian Chicken Drumsticks are actually a melding of two chicken recipes I found on the Cooking Light website archives, and applied to chicken drumsticks for the grill. It all started last night, when I grabbed some nice organic chicken drumsticks on the cheap (the sell by date was today).  While I was [...]

When Blogging Hurts

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This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of American Osteopathic Association for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. Blogging seems like it would be a pretty cushy gig.  Stay home, make your own hours and write.  The thing is the hours can actually be quite long, and many times deadlines are often [...]

A New Way for Bloggers to Earn Money

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I recently did my first campaign for Linqia, and was pleased with the results.  Linqia is a social platform that rewards members with online communities for generating traffic toward client sites (yes, blogs count as communities). When selected to participate in a campaign, the staff at Linqia will run some numbers and set aside an [...]

Peppa Puggle: The Fruitless Frogger

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I couple years ago my parents adopted this little black puggle, named Peppa. He is one monumental pain in the backside and a little wacko. He is cute as all get out though, and certainly has “character”.  We assume the little guy was just a bit too hyper for his original owners. My parents take [...]

“Seedy” Quinoa : A Vegetarian Recipe Fit for the Birds (gluten-free)

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This recipe for quinoa with seeds started with simply adding sunflower seeds… then I must have started channeling a sparrow or something & went a little seed crazy…lol.  Since quinoa is actually a seed as well, this could have been aptly named a bowl o’ seeds, but calling it “seedy” was the only thing that [...]