Check out this great article by Angela Bartels, Rackspace’s Cloud Maven to learn more.

That said Mari has built her entire cupcake business using social media and appears to be doing quite well.  So if you’re looking for some awesome cupcake recipes check out RecipeBridge’s cupcake section otherwise head on over to Foiled Cupcakes and give them a whirl if you’re in the Chicagoland area. ]]> http://blog.recipebridge.com/2009/10/i-feel-like-a-cupcake/feed/ 0 http://blog.recipebridge.com/2009/10/recipe-of-the-day-for-igoogle/ http://blog.recipebridge.com/2009/10/recipe-of-the-day-for-igoogle/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:23:55 +0000 admin http://blog.recipebridge.com/?p=122 Good Morning!

We just released a group of new tools to help our visitors find great recipes! As you might have noticed last week we added a recipe of the day feature to our homepage. A great way to find something new and interested to cook every day, and with over 1.8 million recipes in our database you can be sure every day is a new and exciting recipe. Today’s for example is Pasta With Lemon, Pepper And Parmigiano which I’m already planning to cook up for lunch myself.

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I did a search on RecipeBridge and found some other creative Love Potion recipes for you all to check out as well.
Have a great Friday evening dinner!
-Andy

Check out the interview with Lauren Purcell:

Lauren:
Andy —Thanks again for featuring us. Here are the answers to your questions. (Oh, and just so you have the info in front of you, the Purcell Sisters’ full names are Lauren Purcell and Anne Purcell Grissinger.)

Andy:
You’ve published a book correct?  What is the book’s name and what is it about?  Does it contain recipes as well?  Who should buy the book?  Where can people get it?

Lauren:
Our book, Cocktail Parties, Straight Up! Easy Hors D’oeuvres, Delicious Drinks and Inspired Ideas for Entertaining with Style (we know—long title!), is a stylish but totally unstuffy guide to throwing amazing cocktail parties. Obviously, we’re sisters, and this book is like having a trusted, tell-it-like-it-is sister by your side; it’s full of details other books don’t tell you—exactly how many people to invite and how much food to prepare; how to head off common pitfalls like running out of ice or going over budget; how to make sure you can get everything done on time—without hiring paid help. Plus, it’s got more than 70 delicious recipes for hors d’oeuvres and cocktails.

Basically, Cocktail Parties, Straight Up! is aimed at people who love the idea of creating a warm, wonderful, stylish evening for their friends and acquaintances—but want to do it without sending their stress levels soaring! You can read an excerpt of the book on our website, PurcellSisters.com, and you can buy it on Amazon.

Andy:
Do you have a favorite cooking style / recipe / cooking website?

Lauren:
We know it sounds like marketing, but for recipes, we actually do turn most often to our own site, PurcellSisters.com. We’re very, very proud of the recipes we created—they’re all totally doable (we had them tested by “regular” people, not chefs or test-kitchen experts) and these are all hors d’oeuvres and cocktails that we’ve actually served at parties, so we know they’re crowd-pleasers. (In fact, we still serve them to our own guests. When we branch out, thinking that people must be getting tired of some of these dishes, someone invariably says something like “But where are the Moroccan Lamb Meatballs? I’ve been looking forward to those!”) We’re also constantly coming up with new cocktail and food recipes, and we share them in our e-newsletter, Sisters’ Secrets to Confident Entertaining, so there’s always something new at the site.

Andy:
Our readers love favorite 5 lists, do you have 5 personal favorite Appetizer or party recipes on your site for the readers?

Lauren:
Here are the five appetizers/hors d’oeuvres that the Purcell Sisters serve most often to their own guests:

1. Savory Cheese Puffs
2. Shrimp with Spicy Lime Dipping Sauce
3. Goat Cheese and Leek Croustades
4. Artichoke & Green Olive Dip
5. Moroccan Lamb Meatballs

And here are our 5 favorite cocktails from www.PurcellSisters.com (not all of these are in the book):

1. The Sidekick (a delicious variation on the classic Sidecar)
2. Pineapple-Sage Daiquiri
3. Pear-tini
4. French 75
5. Pink Panther

Andy:
Thanks so much for taking the time to visit with us today Lauren and thanks for the great recipes!

(On a side note, I cooked the Cheese Puffs appetizer recipe for a date this weekend and they went perfect with our pre-dinner glass of wine.)

Buy their book: Cocktail Parties, Straight Up at Amazon

Visit Purcell Sisters Appetizer Recipes – http://www.purcellsisters.com/

Find more great appetizer recipes at RecipeBridge.com

• Pumpkin chili
• Vegetable Stew
• New England clam chowder
• Corn Chowder French onion soup

Enjoy, Bill

To kick things off I’d like to start with Bacon Wrapped Little Loaves from YumYum.  I cooked these for a date several weeks ago and she loved them!  They’re easy to make and you can easily adjust the recipe based on the ingredients in your kitchen so long as you have beef and bacon to wrap it in!

Happy Eating!

Andy

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