The Anatomy of a Cheese Platter

                      It’s effort­less and ele­gant, the clas­sic cheese plat­ter. The vari­a­tions of how to cre­ate your own ver­sion are end­less. I like to design mine around a rus­tic Ital­ian vibe. I start off with a large wine bar­rel lid as my base. (the best invest­ment […]

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Personal Shopper: 21 and Older

From time to time I will be your per­sonal shop­per show­cas­ing my cool finds. Today I’m show­cas­ing every­thing booze related. I’ve made it easy for you, if you’re inter­ested in buy­ing any of the items, , just click on the image and you will be taken to the items web­site directly. That’s one of the […]

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Recession Friendly: Prime Rib Dinner

              I think the proof is in the photo. I have a palette pleas­ing prime rib recipe. Often peo­ple feel intim­i­dated to make such a lux­u­ri­ous meal. It’s actu­ally very sim­ple to make. I don’t usu­ally equate prime rib din­ner with bud­get friendly enter­tain­ing. How­ever, this time of the […]

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Whose Cuisine Will Reign Supreme?

Then there were four…It’s been a fun sea­son of The Next Iron Chef so far. My guy, Michael Chiarello is still in the run­ning. I have a feel­ing they’re look­ing to crown a woman this sea­son, but only time will tell. As promised last week when I posted about my own Iron Chef party, I have […]

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Tah-Dah!

Thanks to the help of Stephanie at Con­tem­po­rary Web­decor, the new face of Style­bag­gage is done! This has def­i­nitely been a learn­ing expe­ri­ence for me. It will con­tinue to be a process as the world of tech­nol­ogy seems to change by the minute. Although the over­all look and design of my blog is com­pleted, there […]

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The Bandages Are Coming Off!

    I recently posted that I was get­ting a facelift. Per­haps it’s bet­ter said that Style­bag­gage is get­ting nipped and tucked, not me per­son­ally. The day has finally arrived to take the ban­dages off! I’m so excited and hope you will come see the results for your­self in the next few days…

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The Next Iron Chef Party

                  I recently threw a shindig to kick off the new sea­son of The Next Iron Chef. Although it’s too late to repli­cate this for a pre­mier party, you can take every­thing I did and use it to throw your own sea­son finale party. The finale will […]

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"There's No Crying In Cooking!"

                        The other day I was in the kitchen chop­ping onions in my nifty Vidalia Chop Wiz­ard. (this is one of my favorite kitchen gad­gets) Tears were just gush­ing down my face and it was burn­ing like crazy.  I hap­pened to glance over on […]

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Sunday's Supper: Chicken Tacos

    This Sun­day, I’m hon­or­ing my favorite con­tes­tant on The Next Iron Chef, Michael Chiarello, by mak­ing his chicken taco recipe. One taste and you’ll be watch­ing with me as I cheer him on. Recipe here I don’t take any Nel­lene short cuts with this recipe. I make it just like Chef Chiarello does. You […]

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Sometimes Less Is More

I’m cur­rently obsessed with minia­ture appe­tiz­ers. Here is some inspi­ra­tion for your next cock­tail party. I’m def­i­nitely giv­ing the tiny tequila bot­tles and tacos a try! mini bot­tles of tequila with tiny tacos french fry shoot­ers and slid­ers Freshtart.net made mini grilled cheese bites with tomato soup projectwedding.com shares short ribs in a glass Marthastewart.com show­cases indi­vid­ual cru­dites […]

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