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4014 Westheimer Rd Houston, TX 77027 (713) 871-9929 www.sprinkles.com The renowned Sprinkles that hailed from Los Angeles, has graced Texas with their presence by opening up a location in Dallas and another in Houston. This cupcakery has taken the nation by storm it seems. Here’s a link off of their webpage of their buzz in [...]

2826 Rio Grande St Ste B Austin, TX 78705 (512) 476-3687 www.polkadotscupcakefactory.com I started my weekend off swallowing a cupcake. Selina who lives way up north won a free cupcake from my favorite cupcakery, Polkadots and had enlisted me to pick up it up since I work at the University. I’ve only sampled 3 of [...]

Thought I’d start off my first Roundup post with links from some of my blogging buddies. Enjoy! All links open in a new window. Fun & Easy Recipes Interestingly, these websites are not exclusively food oriented. Neville’s Vodka Salad – Low(er) calorie drinking for the borderline alcoholic ;) “The kind of chili that kicks sand [...]

1151-06 Uptown Park Blvd Houston, TX 77056 (713) 622-7283 http://www.cravecupcakes.com/ The esteemed cupcakery that is Crave Cupcakes in Houston has quite a following. I finally scoped it out last weekend with Kim as my gracious guide and I have to say a lot (not all) of the hoopla seems to be good marketing, great location, [...]

Two weekends ago, I was the lucky recipient of a dozen cupcakes from Vappy’s Bakeshop. I had entered Von’s facebook little flavor suggestion contest and won with my flavor suggestion of Orange Nutella. (I got the inspiration from my memory of an orange hazelnut cake I had in Boston at L.A. Burdicks.) The cupcakes were [...]

I’m working my night job the next two weeks. Being away from home 6:30am to 10:30pm straight stifles a lot of my eating fun and well.. life’s fun. (Which is why I’ve put in my notice!) I did manage to catch a lovely lunch with my old college roommate who happened to be in town [...]

2826 Rio Grande St Ste B Austin, TX 78705 (512) 476-3687 www.polkadotscupcakefactory.com This past weekend, I finally got around to trying Polkadots Cupcake Factory. Before this my favorite cupcakery was Be My Cupcake but Selina kept promising me Polkadots will not disappoint! If there’s anyone I could trust on cupcake judgement, it’s Ms. Selina who [...]

Last night for a late late dinner, I made us Chicken Marsala and Dutch Potatoes. We have a bunch of potatoes around so I was searching around looking at potato recipes. I wasn’t in the mood for mashed potatoes as I made Shepherd’s Pie just last week but I stumbled on a recipe for Dutch [...]