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Spring-Cleaning with Super Smoothie Recipes

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

Kelly Rusin1 signature Spring Cleaning with Super Smoothie RecipesPeachy Orange Smoothie RE Spring Cleaning with Super Smoothie RecipesSpring is in the air! And that means shedding off those winter clothes, and preparing for some sunny high temperatures! It also means spring-cleaning, and that’s just what I did this weekend…out with the old and in with the new!

In addition to maybe re-arranging some furniture or getting a new bedspread to spruce things up a bit, it also means eating lighter to help us get into some really cute clothes for the summer.

In the midst of all my spring-cleaning, it was time for a nice and refreshing smoothie to keep me going. I took a look at what shakes we have here at the Test Kitchen, and I found a bunch of delicious options.

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Fun Birthday Cupcake Recipes & Ideas

Monday, February 27th, 2012

Kelly Rusin1 signature Fun Birthday Cupcake Recipes & IdeasFebruary has been a month of celebrations for us here at the Mr. Food Test Kitchen. We’ve had 3 birthdays in a row! Which means cake, cake, and more cake! Oh – and fun birthday hats, too!

Our first February birthday was Sarah, our food editor extraordinaire, celebrating with a nice, big chocolate and marshmallow fluff cake, yumm-y! Doesn’t she look cute in the “birthday sombrero”?

Next was Patty, our Test Kitchen director who was pleased to have a chocolate-mint custard cake; it’s just like an ice cream cake only better! Check out her lovely birthday tiara, pretty fancy huh? And the party plate says it all… “Another Year of Fabulous!”

Lastly, yours truly, I celebrated at the “Happiest Place on Earth” (Walt Disney World) and when I came back I was greeted with some delicious lemon meringue cupcakes. I mean really, who doesn’t love a fun cupcake?!

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I sure do! In fact, cupcakes are my favorite, so I decided to round up a few of our very best cupcake recipes to help you out the next time you’re in need! There will always be birthdays, right? Yep!

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Sneak-Peek into Our Comfort Cookbook: Southern Peach Cobbler

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Kelly Rusin1 signature Sneak Peek into Our Comfort Cookbook: Southern Peach CobblerSouthern Peach Cobbler RE Sneak Peek into Our Comfort Cookbook: Southern Peach CobblerHappy 2012 everyone! I hope everyone had a great holiday and is ready for new and exciting adventures this year!

This past Christmas I decided to give the new Mr. Food Test Kitchen Comfort Cookbook out as gifts to some of my family and friends. Some had to be mailed but others were accompanied by one of the yummy dishes in the book, made by yours truly, which turned out to be a great idea!

Shortly after New Year’s I received an email from my cousin Janeen who said her 12 yr. old spunky little red-headed daughter Bekah wanted to make a recipe from the new book.

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Homemade Cookies for Holiday Gifts

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Kelly Rusin1 signature Homemade Cookies for Holiday GiftsCookie Ladies Homemade Cookies for Holiday GiftsThis is my favorite time of the year! All the Christmas lights and decorations are starting to go up, Starbucks has their yummy Peppermint Mocha coffee out and my kitchen turns into a bakery. I love to bake cookies and give them as gifts! If you need some easy homemade gift ideas, then you should try baking up some good old-fashioned cookies and give those away, like I do every year.

I started a few years ago baking cookies and giving them away as presents to some folks I see all the time…my hair dresser, my nail tech, the photo lab I go to, just to name a few. And every year they can’t wait to get them, so much so now that I’ve started to bake for more than just Christmastime. I even got a text the other day from one of my friends asking when the baking’s getting started because they were so anxious to get them!

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Halloween Memories & Leftover Candy Recipes

Monday, October 31st, 2011

Halloween Jellybeans RE Halloween Memories & Leftover Candy RecipesKelly Rusin1 signature Halloween Memories & Leftover Candy RecipesHi there!

The other day I was talking to my cousin about what her kids were going to be for Halloween this year and we started to reminisce about when we were growing up.

I started thinking about some of the costumes I wore growing up, and then I found this picture…Yep, that’s me, a bag of Jelly Beans! Nothing fancy, but a fun idea…

I guess I was into food even back then! Some of my favorite Halloween memories always included going over to my Aunt Barbra’s house in the evening to celebrate her birthday.

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The Best Cupcake Ever!

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Kelly Rusin1 signature The Best Cupcake Ever!Cupcake Charlies 1 RE The Best Cupcake Ever!Have you ever had something that you just couldn’t believe how amazingly good it tasted?

Well, let me tell you about a place I found while on vacation visiting some family in the Northeast. While traveling through Plymouth, Massachusetts I stopped at a cupcake shop that I remembered seeing on the TV show “Cupcake Wars” called Cupcake Charlie’s.

­I had to see if these cupcakes were as good as they said they were on the show.

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Categories : Dessert, Travel

My Visit to The Lady and Sons Restaurant

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

LadyandSons1 300x240 My Visit to The Lady and Sons RestaurantRoad trip time! While on the way up the East coast to visit some family, I took my mom on a side venture to Savannah, GA to eat at The Lady and Sons Restaurant. We both had never been to Savannah before and have always heard about how Paula Deen had a restaurant there, so being an adventurer I decided to give it a try. When I called to see if they took reservations I was told that I had to come in the morning when they opened at 9:30am to make a reservation for lunch or come in the afternoon to make a reservation for dinner.

Much to my surprise they don’t take reservations over the phone – you have to physically go and stand in line to make them. So I got up early the next morning and stood in a line with a bunch of other curious people to make an afternoon lunch reservation.

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