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Corn and Potato with Jalapeno Soup and a Friday Faves Giveaway

Oh man do I have the travel bug. Ever since spending New Years in Mexico and being spoiled rotten with sunshine on my shoulders and warm sand under my toes, I’ve been trolling the travel sites looking for our next destination.

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Finally, a vacation is almost here. Vegas for spring break is in my sites. We won’t be hanging out with the MTV crowd flaunting our bikinis and trying to not—cough, cough—show off our naughty parts as if we were Hollywood elite. No, this will be a family vacation all about the 8 year olds and finding the sunshine. I can’t wait to reprise last year’s Easter poolside fun, daily $2.99 breakfast buffet chow-down and a Vegas ramen eating rampage.

With a fresh snowfall today and more on it’s way for the weekend—I’m certainly ready for spring weather but I’ll happily take a few more spring ski days—this recipe for Corn and Potato with Jalapeño Soup is the perfect transition from winter into spring. It’s not too heavy yet has just enough spice with chunky potatoes and corn to add some bite to the soup’s slurpability leading up to your Easter brunch.

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Enough about me, what’s on your Easter agenda? Not sure yet? Well the giveaway below should be.

So let’s get right to our Friday Faves.

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1. Our friends at Harry & David want you to have a Classic Easter Basket filled with crunchy goodies, fresh pears and chocolate love. I may or may not have sampled half of this basket. Okay, I did. And happily so. How to win? Jump down to the end of the post to get the details.

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2. Inspired by Mrs. Lilien,  I’ve started my spring cleaning by digging into my iPhone and deleting the failed apps I may have tried once and have since abandoned but still take up my much coveted digial space. Somehow I don’t think I have shared my new, favorite, only-one-I-use iPhone photo editing app: Afterglow. Melissa turned me on to it and now you must give it a try. At $1.99 you may not need any other filter editing software for your phone. I don’t. And The only apps I did keep are Instagram (as if!), VSCO app and PS Express. 

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3. Speaking of Melissa, have you seen her croissants yesterday? Holy crap. The fortitude (the recipe lists 11 steps) and dedication (it takes 1 ½ days to make) are so far beyond my bounds that I hang my head in respect. And yes Melissa, my heart is going pitter patter. 

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4. Easter in the U.S. is a big deal but let’s not forget about the other holiday right at it’s heels: Passover, which this year starts on Monday, March 25. I was thrilled Tori asked me to be part of The Shiksa’s 2013 Passover Potluck featuring recipes from Lori, Jackie, Catherine, Rachael, Irvin, Kathy and David  among others. My recipe for Passover Cake Bites goes live on Sunday, March 24 so be sure to check it out and don’t miss the other food bloggers recipes rolling out throughout the week for fantastic meals no matter what your faith.

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5. It’s time to turn my wardrobe upside down and ditch the black drabs and insert a few shots of color. My husband and my yoga pants will be thrilled Gap is having a killer sale on tissue T’s. Here’s to a new spring uniform.

6. Kelly gives us a sneak peek of Wide Angle, the new app for Mac that give you instant access to all of your photos and video across all social media platforms in one place. All in one place, could move from interesting to revolutionary.

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7. #Happy7thbirthday in 140 characters or less to dear Twitter, your present is your 200,000,000 follower. Where would we be without you and where would celebrities be without us dopes following them? I’m looking for new tweet inspiration, who’s your favorite follow (maybe it’s yourself!)? Let us all know in the comments below. img: @twitterUK

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8. Dying eggs is so…2006. These days it’s all about decorating eggs, DIY, image transfers, crochet, caligraphy. Find your style in this round-up of 40 great eggy ideas. img: Brit & Co.

 9. If you’re a food blogger, have you taken the Foodista Food Blogging Survey yet?

 10. Tweet of the week: “Is your online presence projecting a story that can inspire and/or help others?” ~ @bonnietsang

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And now it’s time to enter to win the HARRY & DAVID CLASSIC EASTER BASKET GIVEAWAY. No big deal, just want to give you a little more chocolate to make your holiday a little more special.

Win a Harry & David Classic Easter Basket (value $59.95 USD) that includes:

  • 2 Royal Riviera Pears
  • Dark Chocolate Moose Munch Popcorn (4.5 oz.)
  • Dark Chocolate Cherries (6 oz.)
  • Chocolate Eggs (4 oz.)
  • Caramel Birds Eggs (4 oz.)
  • Easter Egg Chocolates (1.9 oz.)
  • Milk Chocolate Easter Bunny (4.23 oz.)
  • Net Weight: 2 lbs. 5 oz.

For an easy peasy chance to win, leave a comment about any of the Friday Faves above or let us know what your favorite Easter treat/candy/meal is in the comments on this post and record it in the Rafflecopter list below.

The other entry options are optional, but will give you additional entries (in other words…more chances to win). This giveaway is open to residents of the United States, aged 18 years and older.

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The giveaway is open until Sunday, March 24, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. MST and is only open to U.S. residents. Be sure a valid email address is included with your comment. Winner will be chosen randomly and announced on this post. I will email the winner and if the winner doesn’t respond in 24 hours, a new winner will be chosen.

A gift basket was provided to me by Harry and David, and they are supplying the giveaway basket to one lucky winner. All opinions are my own.

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  4. Ellen M. says

    I adore baking but even I don’t have the nerve to try making croissants from scratch. Bravo for the beautiful job! Thanks for the chance!

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  14. Michelle says

    LOVING the eggs – how does one do that while vacaying in Vegas? And I’m on a pears binge lately – crispy juicy sweetness – that’s what color t-shirt I may have to get!

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  21. Alice @ Hip Foodie Mom says

    Heidi,
    I love the idea of spring cleaning your iPhone apps! I totally need to do this. . . and thank you for the 411 on all of the apps. . I am totally going to look at Afterglow and VSCO. Also can’t wait to see your recipe on Sunday!

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  26. Nikki says

    Easter Basket filled with all my childhood favorites, spiced jelly beans, malted milk eggs, licorice jelly beans, assortment of Russell Stover eggs, and cadbury dark chocolate eggs (ok, ok this is a new favorite but if they’d existed when I was kid they totally would’ve been in the basket).

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  28. Harini says

    I never grew up celebrating Easter, but it was always one of my favorite times of year because I think it has the best candy. I’m a sucker for cadbury creme eggs.

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  33. Stefanie @ Sarcastic Cooking says

    I love that tweet about your online persona, speak the truth sister! My fave Easter treat/guilty pleasure is Cadbury Cream Eggs. I know, so many people think they are gross. But I stockpile them and keep them in the fridge so they are less grossly gooey. On to something else, this soup! Amazing, what flavors! I’m glad it is still in the 30’s in Chicago so I can enjoy this!

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  37. A.H. says

    I am SO eager to try that corn and potato with jalapeno soup! (And anxiously anticipate the recipe for the Passover bites.)

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  42. kate M. says

    Love those mini cadbury eggs that come in that mini egg carton- so cute and tiny… and you can eat all 12 at once… right?!

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  46. Ivy Berres says

    My favorite Easter food is the traditional Easter meal of deviled eggs, ham, potatoes, scalloped corn, asparagus and a springy dessert and/or Bunny shaped dessert :)

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  49. Lori D says

    My sweet sister just sent me a box of my favorites from California…See’s Scotchmallow Easter Eggs! She’s the best!

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  50. Lin Baker says

    ooohhhh… I love the croissants to eat with my Easter Basket of goodies……. WOW, what a selection!

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  63. Amanda KP says

    Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs are my all time Easter fave! But that may change if I win this basket ;)

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  73. Cathy Sandfort says

    MARSHMALLOW EGGS….OMLORDY!!!! For that matter, anything shaped in an egg with chocolately, peanuty, caramely, nutty, coconuty, goodness….:)

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  76. Bobbi says

    I was resigned to the smell of vinegar giving me a headache while I attempted to do something fun for our boys’ eggs this year… but between the polka dots and the decoupage and the lace and the Sharpie (YAY Sharpie) and the crochet eggs… I think I’ll be buying the store out of eggs just to try it all! Thanks so much for the share! :D

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  87. Jen A says

    Long ago there was a lady from church that made chocolate covered eggs for Easter. They were filled with peanut butter or fudge and decorated with frosting roses. To my child’s eye they were the best and most amazing treat ever.

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  89. Jahnavi @ Indian Khana Made Easy says

    My favorite Easter treats/candy are the chocolate bunnies. In elementary school, my ESL teacher taught me all about American culture and holidays. She thought it was a good idea for me to participate and learn about the holidays so I could acclimate better. We decorated eggs, played Easter games and I even got a chocolate Easter bunny treat. It was so much fun.

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  92. Rony Jahid says

    I really love recipe. I wish that you would actually have an ingredients list at the end with specific measurements so that it would be easy for us to re-create precisely what you made! :)

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  93. kemparaju says

    There is a reason why I bought a Mac, it was not to be one of the cool kids that wanted the best of the best. No it was because of the music production I do on it. Hours and hours sitting in front of my Mac copying, pasting, moving, deleting, hour after hour just beating on my Mac in a endless assault to get my work done. That is the key part, my work. I work from home, it is great, but even if it is from home it is still work and it still needs to get done. So my Mac, I have it because it is fast, gets the job done and comes back for more.

    But what happens when it doesn’t want to do those things anymore?

    I move around massive amounts of information and yes even on the almighty Mac this can cause a problem after a while. Things fragment, programs get corrupted issues come up. My light speed Mac slows down to a crawl and all of the sudden I simply can not get any work done. Because I work from home there is no IT guy to call and ask to come fix it. No instead I have to figure out what is wrong. I am lucky, I did, but not after trying everything under the sun first and wasting countless hours looking for one program that can do what I needed instead of ten programs. One program to lead them all….okay that was a lame Lord of the rings reference, but that program was/is Detox My Mac. A simple to use program that did not just fix my issues, it put my Mac on overdrive again. A few clicks and my Mac was clean and ready to rock and roll again.

    Read more here:- http://detox-my-mac.com?vhbshygdf398432

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