1. favorite chocolate chips - Sunspire semi-sweet organic chocolate chips. These blow nestle's out of the water and I would put them up against girardehli any day.
2. favorite blog - The Bovine Bugle. Yes, i know it's a blog about cows. Yes, it's interesting. Seriously, it's a blog by a farmer on one of the farms that supplies to stonyfield yogurt. I can't say why it's entertaining to read about maple syrup production and shoring up fences so cows don't run away, but it is.
3. favorite new band - Eat Liz. My husband found them on The Sixty one, a great little indy music site. It's different from the others, but I'm lazy and you can read.
4. favorite banana bread/muffin recipe - Banana Crunch Muffins from kraft. I made 2 modifications: 1. I used all whole wheat pastry flour and 2. (this is the important one) I used grape nuts trail mix cranberry crunch instead of regular grape nuts. This was, hands down the best banana muffin I've ever had. I would say "banana bread" except that a recipe this low in fat doesn't cook all the way through if you do it in a loaf pan.
5. favorite choreographer/teacher - Margie Cole. Honestly, I have never seen a performance by her because I always have some excuse about time or money (I miss about every dance performance there is because of this), but I've taken classes from her twice and they're my favorite, hands down. I've taken lots of master classes from people on all levels in all disciplines of dance (tap, jazz, modern, ballet, lyrical and even belly dance), and she blows them all away--even Savion Glover's brother.
6. favorite dessert recipe - chocolate lava cakes. It speaks for itself.
