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Happy Holidays from YumYum!

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Just wanted to wish everyone an enjoyable and safe holiday!  So in this post, I’m debuting my brand new Canon EOS Digital XSi.  It was a little Christmas present from me… to me.  I’m still messing around with different angles, lighting, zoom, and focuses.  In short, I have no idea what I’m doing  This post also features a guest “chef”, my sister Jenny.  She wanted to share a pasta dish that she came up with recently.  As you can see from the pictures, it’s a big ol’ melting pot of… stuff.  I won’t even try to describe the ingredients that went into this.  Suffice it to say that everything that my sister likes is

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Maggiano’s

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Last weekend, our friends and I went back home to go to the D.C. Cherry Blossom Festival.  The weather was perfect – sunny, breezy (understatement), high 60s – and we had a blast ambling about the city, taking pictures with the sakura trees.  To cap off our adventure, we went to Robo’s and my most favorite italian restaurant ever – Maggiano’s in Chevy Chase, MD.  We ate family style,  all 9 of us!, and feasted on delicious pastas, seafood, and desserts until we waddled happily

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