Fun and Food Blog has an ingenious recipe for garlic bread - Caprese Style.

Kawasaki Dashi’s entry on the Japanese New Year’s shows some typical, festive Japanese desserts. It made me crave a Tokyo Crepe!

Vegan YumYum has such a lovely presentation of a typical holiday dessert. So what if Christmas is over!

I found yet another doughnut recipe I want to try at The Cynical Chef - at the risk of encouraging another violent act of eating.

Apple Pie, Patis and Pate has a very scary (but impressive!) and complicated looking French Fruit and Spice cake.

Hungry Cravings describes the most perfect spatula. My perfect spatula? The one I bought at the $1.00. But it doesn’t double as a spoon or have an extremely useful hook. Bummer.

Imperrfections has a summer roll recipe I want to try, but I totally failed at navigating the Asian food market. Any guides out there on finding the ingredients I need?

Furey and the Feast has a bread recipe based on the podcast I saw of Mark Bittman’s No-Knead Bread recipe. But I’m scared of straying from the recipe which gave me my one and only success!

Andrew’s Recipes has a cocktail I could use right about now.

By now I’m sure the internet is bogged down by reflective New Year’s Eve blog entries - looking back at the year and mulling over life changing events. I feel like, after going through a bad breakup, a bad car accident and a bad 25th birthday I should have reached some kind of epiphany or feel older, wiser. I don’t really. I mean, I feel wiser when it comes to love and I definitely feel older but I still feel like I don’t know what I’m doing half the time. The only difference now is - that doesn’t scare me as much as it used to.

Now, looking back on 2008, I can trace a timeline of events that have led me to this point - facing another year, wondering what sort of heartaches and mysteries lie ahead.

This time last year, I was setting up my New Year’s Eve party at the town home I shared with my former roommate.

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