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Home Blog POST TOPICS Cheers & Chocolate

Cheers & Chocolate - the Good Stuff of Life

Happy Family, Celebrations and Food, Lesbian Good Times - the Cheerful Side of Life from Karin Kallmaker's perspective.

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Cheery Cherry Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

Karin Kallmaker 12/14/2017 Cheers & Chocolate, Favorite Things 6 Comments

All the good things in life: Oats, brown sugar and butter, with bright pops of cherry and melting not-quite-bitter dark chocolate. Plus a short treatise on vanillin. Ad free site.

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A Yank’s Opinion of Ireland’s Crisps

Karin Kallmaker 05/16/2017 Cheers & Chocolate 10 Comments

I donned the mantle of science and tasted the most common crisps of the Emerald Isle. This is my evaluation, which nobody asked for. Plus, I’m quite sure that the Irish couldn’t give a rusty nail about what a Yank thinks on the subject.

#FoodScience#King Crisps#Tayto
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Now It’s More than a Teapot – Travel Synchronicity

Karin Kallmaker 05/11/2017 Cheers & Chocolate, My Lady Lipstick 9 Comments

I’d already picked out the teapot to use in My Lady Lipstick. Then we toured the place where that teapot was born.

#Belleek#synchronicity#travel
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Songlist – Getting My Resolutions On

Karin Kallmaker 01/01/2017 Cheers & Chocolate, LIFE + STYLE 8 Comments

Artists record the times. Right now it’s songs that spur my resolve for the year about to land on us all. Songs that show these times are not new.

#2017#HoltzmannMusic be the Food of Love
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Reblog: The Magic Flourish at Dinner

Karin Kallmaker 05/18/2016 Cheers & Chocolate, Making Up for Lost Time

Why did I put a souffle recipe in Making Up for Lost Time?

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  • Trivia – Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren? Sure!
    It's unusual for Karin to have an actor in mind to play one of her characters. An exception is Marissa's mother in Finders Keepers. The "step up on the table in the country club dining room to make an announcement" personality - it's so Meryl Streep. If she were unavailable then Helen Mirren would do it justice as well.

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  • Cover Cowboys and Kisses lesbian romance by Karin Kallmaker. Woman in black dress holds a book of old folded pages and lavender. Cowboys and Kisses - Historical Romance - eBook $4.99

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    They prevailed with good old fashioned lesbian camaraderie and intelligence.
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    A real gift for characterization and realistically humorous dialogue.
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