Nescafe Dolce Gusto Foodie Feed Up Event

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A couple of weeks ago, a fellow Tampa Blogger, Leslie from The Hungry Housewife posted on facebook an upcoming Foodie Feed Up event in Tampa.

NESCAFÉ Dolce Gusto was hosting 8 Foodie Feed Ups around the country for bloggers to check out some of their local chefs’ favorite dishes and also try their yummy new coffee line and they were coming to Tampa.

They’ve already hit up Cleveland and New York City; by the time they came to Tampa and next up, they were headed to Chicago, Seattle, Houston, LA and Denver.

Five fellow bloggers along with myself jumped at the chance to experience this affair at Restaurant BT on a quiet Monday night.

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Hello Cheeky!

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A couple of weeks ago, I crumbled and gave myself a present and bought a new camera.  It’s been months of a lot of reading, researching, getting feedback from everyone that had a camera and it came down to either the Nikon D7000 or the Sony a55.

Both excellent cameras, both had the goods to give me results that will wow the crowds, both held high reputations in the industry (even thought Sony is pretty new in the DSLR market) but when everything was said and done It came down to this:

Price.

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The story of the Leeks, Rice, Peas and ham jumble and an Egg to boost

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See that picture above, that is what you get when your body craves something and you raid your refrigerator and get a “healthy” talk from your boyfiend.

This past weekend I was all set to bake the last cake for my Heavenly Cake Baker club.  Instead I ended up in bed for 4 days, going mano-a-mano with a nasty cold.

Today, I decided to stay home instead of spreading the joy around work, because karma will eventually beat me up and those germs will travel around the place and end up back in my system.

So I played nice.

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