Check out Products You Need to Get Started With Hot Yoga
by Julie Ruble at Mode
Thanks so much, Mode Media, for sponsoring this post.
Five months have passed since I first walked into a hot yoga classroom and proceeded to flop around like a trout — a very zen, mindful trout, of course. Five whole months! That makes me a hot yoga expert (nope), so now I’m going to tell you all what to do.
Or really, what not to do.
Roasted Apricot and Shortbread Ice Cream Bars
Roasted Peaches and Shortbread Ice Cream Sundae
I wrote this post as part of the Plugrá Butter Brigade. Thanks, Plugrá, for sponsoring this post and for making my favorite butter!
My Plugrá summer patio party was a smashing success! Now it’s time to share the recipes I created for the occasion. Here’s the menu:
Appetizer: Chipotle Shrimp on Cheddar Sweet Potato Coins
Entreé: Chile Baked Salmon with Lime Butter
Dessert: Roasted Peaches and Shortbread Ice Cream Sundae
The whole meal was SLAMMIN’ and I can’t wait to share every recipe with you! But you know I had to share dessert first.
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Tips for Throwing the Perfect Patio Party (and Willow Bird’s 2015 Summer Playlist!)
I wrote this post as part of the Plugrá Butter Brigade. Thanks, Plugrá, for sponsoring this post and for making my favorite butter!
SUMMER: sitting, snacking, singing, sipping, swimming, sunshining! Every year I kick off summer with a balcony party and share highlights to inspire you to throw together your own outdoor shindig. And (my favorite part!) every year I compile a Willow Bird Baking Summer Playlist for you to jam to at your par-tay.
Here are this year’s tips for throwing the perfect patio party:
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Strawberry Sour Cream Kuchen
Six years ago I sat down at my computer and wrote my first post on Willow Bird Baking. Since then, I’ve grown as a blogger in many ways, but perhaps most significantly in my photography. Great photographs seem simple and attainable — surely we can all position a dishtowel and plate of food on a table? — but are surprisingly elusive. The good news is that there are a few simple tricks that can dramatically improve your photos.
one of my first photos (left) versus today’s photos
Hot Strawberry Cake with Ice Cream
No, YOU’ve made 80 different versions of the same cake because you care more about eating cake than you do about seeming creative.
One of many awesome things about being a food blogger is that I can do whatever I want. I’m my own boss. I can make 800 variations on this cake because it’s amazing and delicious and I want to eat 800 variations of it. I can use this space to tell the stories I want to tell and share the food I want to share.
But I’ve noticed around the interwebz that some people seem confused about what blogs are and whether blogs are the right choice for their food/reading needs. Some people would actually be better served by recipe websites like Food Network or AllRecipes. So I’m going to help you out.
Here’s how to tell if you should be using a BLOG or a RECIPE WEBSITE:
