Stop by every week to see what delectable treat Sherry has come up with and you might find something scrumptious from Erika to start your weekend off right.
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Husbands and wives argue. It’s just one of those things – a given of marriage, a by-product of sharing so many of the important issues and ho-hum mundanities of life. A little irritation leads to big words. Stubborn begets stubborn. Heels dig in. Movement and compromise seem unnatural, uncomfortable, even impossible. You reach a level of exasperation where you wonder how you ended up in this life and wildly consider all the possible avenues out of it. And then you leave the room, slam the door, hold your head in your hands, and fume. Or weep, depending on the particular situation and your particular personality.
Ingredients Include: Eggs, brown sugar, heavy cream, milk, Grand Marnier or other orange liqueur, salt, challah, bananas and dark chocolate chips
Here are 7 key items that “bug” industry professionals when they go out to dinner. Feel free to add your own by leaving a comment on the link below or Email me directly at: stevejohnson77@msn.com
1. Waiters interrupting an important meal to ask if ‘everything is OK?
2. Asking what composes a certain dish and getting shrugged shoulders for an answer.
3. Bad lighting.
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Purpose. Why you are there contemporized relevance! The most successful brands are inclusive include values greater than themselves. A lifestyle, a philosophy, an emotion a point in time today that means better for you.
A story. Most major brands have a story. Examples: if you like Ford vehicles, you might be familiar with the story of Henry Ford or if you love your Nikes, you probably know how the Nike swoosh logo was created.
Consumer interaction. When your business is first starting out, don’t fool yourself into believing that your marketing efforts are ‘brand building’ efforts. They’re not because to build a real brand, you have to have an extensive track record with consumers. Consumer will build the brand and the story for you.
Trust. When you’ve consistently delivered for your customers long enough, you’ll gain the type of trust that many brands have. Would you buy a Toyoda today? Maybe so, but how long do they have to rebuild that trust?
Here’s something I truly love about my job: The people in my office are always hungry. For an obsessive and relentless cook like me, this is a dream come true. Whatever I make, my coworkers demolish enthusiastically. And then they send me nice emails that make me smile.
Most of the time I bring sweet treats. My brownies, almond butter and strawberry jam bars, fig muffins, fig and goat cheese tart…all of these draw praise and make me new friends. The zucchini squares, not exactly sweets, have many fans nonetheless.
But how many people are lucky enough to be able to walk around the office handing out pickled red carrots with wild fennel seeds and still get groans of pleasure? I love California, Land of the Vegetable Worshippers.
Ingredients Include: Red carrots, grapefruit vinegar, white wine or champagne vinegar, water, salt, sugar and fennel seeds (wild if you can get them).
If you’re looking for an easy and delicious chicken recipe, look no further. This one has five ingredients counting the chicken – you can’t get any easier than that!
Because of the acidic nature of the cranberries and the fat content of the dressing, it is a marinade as well. The acid in the cranberries breaks down the tissue in the chicken making it tender and juicy.
Ingredients Include: Chicken breasts, whole cranberry sauce, Catalina salad dressing, dry onion soup mix and pecans.
After moving up substantially in January to 89.3, the Optimism Index dropped back to a low 88.0, where it was in December.
“[The number] has been below 90 for 17 consecutive months,” the NFIB reports, a trend which “is unprecedented in survey history.”
The net percent of small business owners who believe that business conditions will improve in the next six months dropped down to -9 percent, the lowest point since March 2009 –and and a full 56 points lower than the percentage recorded at worst point of the 1982 recession, the report explains.
As we wrote in November, sales continue to be the primary concern for beleaguered small businesses. 34 percent cited weak sales as their number one problem, a new survey high for that measure. Concern about taxes came in second at 23 percent, while government requirements and red tape were third at 12 percent.
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It’s called a pie, but it’s really a cake filled with an amazing custard and covered with chocolate. You and your family will call it delicious. It’s truly a classic dessert.
Although it’s not a pie, it did originate in Boston and credited to the chef at the Omni Parker House Hotel (also the home of the Parker House Roll). The original Boston Cream Pie had toasted almonds around the sides, but it’s good without them as well – your choice.
Ingredients Include
Butter, sugar, egg yolks, vanilla, milk, flour, baking powder, salt, unsweetened chocolate, cream and powdered sugar.