Entries from July 2008

July 25, 2008

Kraft releases salad dressing survey

Lifestyles editor Leslie Criss passed this on to me earlier today. Who knew Democrats and Republicans could agree on ANYTHING!
Kraft recently conducted a nationwide survey on the salad dressing preferences and eating habits of 1,000 American adults (male and female).  The survey, conducted by TSC, a division of Yankelovich, found numerous quirky tidbits and fun [...]

July 24, 2008

New bakery in town?

When driving behind Todd’s grocery store today, I noticed what appears to be a new bakery in Tupelo called Cupcakes. Does anyone know anything about this business?

July 14, 2008

Baked Eggs Provencal

I tried a new egg dish for breakfast Sunday morning. My husband and kids went to Atlanta Bread to grab some pastries for breakfast and I asked them to bring me back a plain bagel.
I didn’t have any tarragon so I used basil. The farmers’ market tomatoes made a big difference. This would be a [...]

July 10, 2008

The perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe

One of my editors sent me an article from yesterday’s The New York Times about the perfect chocolate chip cookie. Seems the recipe was invented by Ruth Graves Wakefield who owned the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Mass. She either accidentally or purposefully dropped some Nestle semisweet chocolate into her Butter Drop Do cookies and [...]