Food and Wine Festival

 If you don't know about the Food and Wine Festival you aren't a real foodie! :) It's when all the major Food Network stars come to a venue in California or New York. They give cooking demos, book signings, and you get to taste some delicious food. My mom surprised me over the summer with tickets and from then on I couldn't wait. Scroll down to see pictures of the fun time I had with my mom.

Celebrities that I met:

Geoffrey Zakarian

Marcus Samuelson

Andrew Zimmern

Scott Conant

Katie Lee

We had a nice breakfast in the City at Blue Dog. The food and service is great. Crunchy French Toast and an Omelette with Rosemary Potatoes and Salad.

  Time to wait on line to get into the venue. Surprisingly there weren't too many people because we arrived early. We found more and more people came the later we stayed. If you are going to go I recommend you go early and find a seat for the demos.

 Katie Lee demonstrating how to make pasta pie.

Geoffrey talking about how to make a perfect steak and his preferences towards meat.

Marcus Samuelson and his sous chefs.

Close  up of Marcus Samuelson.

Andrew Zimmern. He demonstrated how to make squirrel!!

Scott Conant, my mom's cooking crush... I love them all!

I got selfies/pictures with everyone I saw cook except Andrew Zimmern and Geoffrey Zakarian. Scott Conant pulled me onto the stage to take the picture with me. OMG! I was shaking after that because a TV Star in my eyes and the eyes of all foodies had touched me! My mom was jealous...

"Mini Desserts From Your Mini Blogger..."

Apple Crumble Muffins

Sweater weather's here! I absolutely love Fall... The smell of these muffins is enough to make my eyes water and nose run. To be honest, the baking is way better in the fall months. In August are you going to be sitting around the fire with family, eating a piece of Grandma's pumpkin pie and drinking chai tea... No! I guess you get my point.

Ingredients
2 cups of all-purpose flour 
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
1/2 teaspoon of salt1/2 cup of butter, room temperature 
1 cup of white sugar 
2 eggs
1 1/4 teaspoons of vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups of chopped apples 
1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
1/3 cup of brown sugar (crumble)
1 tablespoon of all-purpose flour (crumble)
1/2 tablespoon of cinnamon (crumble)
1 tablespoon of butter (crumble)


Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and grease a muffin tray.
2. In a small bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt and set aside.
3. In a separate bowl, beat the butter, white sugar, and eggs together until smooth. Mix in vanilla and cinnamon. Then, add in the chopped apples. Begin to gradually add in flour mixture, a spoonful at a time.
4. Spoon the batter into your greased muffin tray. DO NOT place in the oven just yet!
5. In a small bowl, mix brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, and melted butter together until crumbly in texture.
6. Place the crumble on top of the muffins in the tray and place the muffins into the oven to bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Let the muffins cool and enjoy!

Muffins, ready to eat

Raw muffins with no crumble

Crumble for the top of the muffins

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