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VIDEO: Apple Cinnamon Roll Cake for Fall Baking
Refrigerated cinnamon roll dough plays a starring roll in this easy apple cake I made up one day. And I filmed it too, with some catchy music to get you in the kitchen baking. Aren't you lucky?
HOME: Cozy Porch Plans and Ideas for Fall at the Cottage
We finally did it, we took the plunge and took a step closer to our retirement plan, by buying a fixer-upper lakehouse. The place is a bit of a blank slate, and we are slowly making it our own. But we need to be thrifty, and a lot of what we want to do may have to...
RECIPE: Upside Down Basil and Peach Vanilla Cake
Peach season is just about over, but there are still some late harvest lovelies found in roadside stands in Michigan-so you may get lucky!We have been up to our ears in peaches all month long. My dad, born and raised in Italy, learned how to grow things from aunts and...
RECIPES: Weeknight Veal and Pork Bolognese Pasta
School has started and we are still getting used to our new schedule-which has my daughter coming home from school much later these days. Weeknight meals need to be wholesome yet easy. I ran across this somewhere and have kept it in my recipe files for a while to...
The Italy Trip Series: A Garden Walkabout behind our Venice Hotel
I always wondered where my green thumb came from. In visiting Italy, I came to realize it is definitely my Italian heritage. If there is a can or a pot or a piece of dirt to be planted with something pretty to look at or yummy to grow and eat, it will get planted.Here...
RECIPE: Red Velvet Cupcakes with White Chocolate Mousse Filling and Cream Cheese Frosting
What can make a red velvet topped with fluffy dollops of cream cheese frosting even better? Fill them with a creamy cloud of white chocolate mousse.Aw yeah. I won't belabor this one, I'll just get you to the recipe. Here it is. Enjoy.Red Velvet Cupcakes with...
MEET FLORA
the urban domestic diva
FLORA CAPUTO
Blogger extraordinaire, author, designer, crafter, baker, cook and slowly beautifying our world one pixel at a time.
Feel free to contact me on social media or through the contact form.
The Martha Stewart for Todays Generation.
The Urban Domestic Diva lives in many of us. And my blog and connected social spaces are a place where I hope to inspire others by sharing ideas around home and hearth. My hope is that we can all live creatively abundant lives while balancing all the other demands being put on us daily. Posts and discussions range from recipes and cooking tips for entertaining, seasonal cooking, healthy cooking, gardening tips and propagation of native plants, cottage-chic or shabby-chic crafting, upcycling and other home ideas.
UDD is also a creative powerhouse for creating products like Cottage chic decor and home goods, Shabby-chic clothing, decorative personal items, gardening decorative items, wall art and many more items to beautify your home and life.
Author of Cooking and Gardening Books : Bee Advocacy, Pollinator advocacy, Gardening Tips, Native Plant Gardening
… And Like many working moms, I’m just trying to do it all while making sure we have clean socks for the week!
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