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French 75 Cocktail

For our New Year’s gathering, my sister and I decided that we needed a signature cocktail or fun drink for the evening. It is the new year, after all. So, I began searching for a delicious drink that contained Champagne. And I stumbled upon the French 75. This is a drink that contains gin, Champagne, […]

Food Resolutions 2013

Hello again, folks! I hope everyone’s new year is starting out fantastically. I wanted to take this time at the beginning of the year to look at my food resolutions from 2012 and make some new ones for 2013. Here were my resolutions from last year, only one of which was left unaccomplished. I hosted a […]

Simple Saturday: Garlic Croutons

This Simple Saturday recipe really couldn’t get any easier. You take some old crusty bread, like baguette or ciabatta, cut it into cubes, pour some olive oil over it, add some crushed garlic and salt and bake until crisp. (I baked mine at 375 for 5-10 minutes, until browned.)

Top 5 of 2012

Happy almost New Year! 2012 has been a fantastic year for me and for the Fruitful blog. This year, Fruitful turned one and I feel like it’s come such a long way since the beginning. This year, I had one of my recipes featured on foodgawker. And this year, I came up with my own […]

Simple Saturday: Popovers

It’s good to be back. Back to my little apartment after 3 weeks away. Back to my kitchen where I love to be. Back to my husband who I was away from for 2 weeks. The past three weeks have been chock full of new adventures, sights, foods and celebrations. In that time I’ve been […]