On Friday, CupcakeStop is having a promotion with Benefit Cosmetics – if you’re one of the first 300 people to buy a cupcake on Friday, you get a free full-sized container of Sugarbomb: I’m definitely going! Hopefully I’ll be one of the first 300 because I also LOVE Benefit Cosmetics (especially She Lag and Dr. […]
I just received a Hamilton Beach blender in the mail and wanted to try it out by making some personal-sized smoothies. David and I have smoothies all the time, but after I went to this editor’s showcase last week, I’ve been changing it up. Here’s my video explaining who to make an awesome fruit smoothie: […]
Every once in a while, I’ll go to Chinatown and pick up some exotic fruits that I can’t easily find anywhere else. On this particular trip, I saw a vendor selling durian and decided to pick some up to try it. Durian is easy to spot – they have spiky husks and the flesh is […]
For the month of February, Butter Lane is offering buy 1, get 1 free cupcakes (Monday’s – Wednesday’s) if you mention my blog, Gracenotes NYC! Butter Lane was a favorite from the cupcake cagematch, winning the wildcard category. Butter Lane is located in the East Village and uses all organic dairy (very awesome). What’s your […]
Since I was already frying 10 pounds of chicken on Saturday night (see chicken dinner post here), I figured we could also have a fried dessert. I was perusing the Ad Hoc at Home cookbook and found the recipe for apple fritters, which sounded really easy to make and looked very delicious. These were really […]
