Paula Does Pasta

Look at these little cuties! Don’t you just want to take a bite? I think that they’re the perfect sweet treat for your sweetie on Valentine’s Day! (& if you don’t have a sweetie no worries, more for you ; ) I mean, Red Velvet HELLO (other than chocolate of course) is the obvious choice for Valentine’s Day right? It’s RED after all LOL but this just isn’t any old Red Velvet Recipe nope, this is an incredibly special recipe to me (if you want to read the whole sappy story behind it head on over to my original post here) ! It’s my Grandma’s & after years of begging, pleading and throwing tantrums my Mom FINALLY gave me the recipe last year. See persistence does pay off. LOL

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So you’re having a Super Bowl party are you? And you want to make something that’s not what you’ve seen at every other Super Bowl party you’ve ever been to? You know what kinda heartburn food I’m talking about, the crockpot of Velveeta cheese dip, the bowls of chips, the little weenies in grape jelly, the potato skins, the trays of tums (cause you know you gonna need em), & on and on and on. Well you’re in luck! & I’m pretty confident that if you show up with these super bowls that not only will you be the only one with them they won’t last 15 mins either ; )

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I was in Atlanta last weekend at a fabulous Macaron class taught by the Macaron Queen herself, Tartelette (which I’ll be posting about over at bell’alimento very soon, patience my little pretties) and during one of our interludes between mixing & baking & noshing & chatting, I joined in on a conversation going on between some of the evah so fabulous girls …

I’m going to paraphrase but the conversation went something like (keeping in mind I shaunteed over mid conversation)…”Tyra can suck it”…(immediately I knew I liked this girl LOL) “other than her smizing”… Sma, who WHAT?… What the… SMIZING? Then I was let in on this new to me, but apparently not to anyone else word.. SMIZING…Apparently Smizing was made up by the intellectual genius Tyra herself & is her coined term for “smiling with your eyes” or SMIZING…To demonstrate this, we were given a crash course in smizing by the evah so lovely Jennifer (who has some of the most fabulous hair evah). She was working it! I only wish I had pics or a video because she had everyone in tears! (more…)

You know when you’re meeting someone for the first time how inevitably they ask you what do you do? Such a loaded question, no? Well if I’m in a group of people someone else will usually answer for me (probably because I’m shoving food into my mouth. Who knows? LOL). “Oh, she cooks!” Or,  “she does Pasta!” And it’s true. Yep I do Pasta! BUT I do a lot more than pasta ; )

And, well it just didn’t seem right to put all of that “extra” stuff floating around in my little head over on my food blog, bell’alimento. SO I thought I’d create a new little place! So, Paula Does Pasta was born! Yep it’s a total play on words & NO I will not be naked here. I know what some of you might be thinking LOL! (more…)