One Girl Cookies

I recently took a vacation to visit my family and escape the NATO craziness in Chicago. While I was in Omaha I went to one of my favorite places, The Bookworm in Countryside Village. My Mom and I love the bookstore and the coffee shop, Village Grinder, attached to it. I ended up buying a couple of books this time around (support your local independent businesses!!). One of the books I purchased was a recipe book called One Girl Cookies from the bakery in Brooklyn of the same name. Today I made the recipe that made me want to buy the book...Apricot Jam-Filled Almond Butter Cookies. Apricot and butter...Y-U-M! My apartment smells like butter...and the cookies taste wonderful. The book is filled with great recipes with wonderfully simple ingredients. My next recipe to try will be: Honey Apricot Granola.

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Sprinkles' 24 hour Cupcake ATM

My friend S. sent me an email this morning with this link. Coming this Summer to Chicago's Sprinkles, a 24 hour cupcake ATM. The current Chicago location is on Walton at Rush streets in the Gold Coast near many late night cocktail lounges. If the ATM is at this location, I'm sure it will be hopping around 2 a.m.!

Not pictured: Was in the West Loop neighborhood yesterday morning and bought a delicious latte from this not-so-new coffee spot, La Colombe Torrefaction on Randolph Street. Line to the door when I was leaving...

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Would You Like a Cocktail with Your Music?

Found this lovely site and thought I'd share. Type in what you're listening to or what you want to listen to and Drinkify will give you a cocktail suggestion and a song sample of the musical artist you typed in. Too much fun.

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