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Adventure Begins in the Kitchen

More Gasparilla, In Pictures

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Breakfast: Leftover Pancakes with Raspberry Jam

Lunch: Veggie Chili Salad with Avocado

Various Gasparilla Cookbook Snacks

Krista and Me with Mrs. Gasparilla!

Cocktail: Gasparilla Cookbook Rum Punch

Real Dinner: Spicy Kale (sans pasta) x2

After typing away on the computer all day, I headed over to Datz for The Junior League of Tampa’s second event celebrating the 50th anniversary reprint of The Gasparilla Cookbook (check out the first event here).  Krista and I had been planning this week’s Datz events since early this summer and it was nice to have another successful event under our belt.

I snacked on some veggies and homemade chips/pretzels during the event, but I was ready for something substantial by the time I got home.  I made a huge bowl of spicy kale and sat down to watch the season premier of New Girl (whether or not I dig the show is TBD) and ended up making another batch during a commercial break.  Yum!

Did anyone else watch New Girl?  What did you think?

A Celebration

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“Look at you 1960s Tampa!”, I thought when I first saw this newspaper clipping of Jackie O rocking The Gasparilla Cookbook, “look at you…”.  It was 90 percent this photo and 10 percent my love for cooking that drove me to select the Cookbook Special Events Coordinator as my top placement in The Junior League of Tampa this year.  So you can imagine my excitement when I found out that the cookbook committee’s current focus was on the 50th Anniversary Edition of this very book.

On Saturday, we held our first event which celebrated the special edition anniversary reprint while honoring the past 60 years of cookbook committee chairs.  If this room had a head and a toe, it would have been decorated from one to the other in Gasparilla gear.

Gasparilla decorations in August = happiness for a Tampa crowd!

Our committee baked timeless Tampa recipes that perhaps Jackie O herself had prepared at one time or another.  And a fact like that, one that can neither be proven nor disproven, is one that I will kindly convince myself is truth!