Smoky Bacon Deviled Eggs

Deviled eggs are another great food divisor, either you love them or you hate them, there s not really an in-between. I suspect it has to do with the texture, as the creamy filling inside of a rather toothsome egg white will either woo you or send your lip curling upwards in distaste. I am in the lovers camp, firmly entrenched since childhood with no plans on leaving. Deviled eggs are my favorite cold appetizer and one that you don t see that often anymore. They have become rather passé, sadly, and ignored for other more trendy appetizers. So what can one do except pull out your 1970 s retro carnival glass deviled egg plate and serve up those babies in style? I love my egg plate. I love these eggs. Yes, sadly I embrace being passé. Give me retrolicious recipes any day of the week and I ll most likely have the glassware to serve it in. This was some of my collection three years ago when we first moved into our house. I had some of my nicest pieces out and kept some packed away. I wi
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Oxwall 1.7.4 Released

Oxwall, the social network builder, has unveiled its latest version.The free and open source CMS is available to anybody who wishes to self host, while Wall.fm provides a hosted version of the platform.After announcing a new focus on user interface and mobile experience, Oxwall has released a slew of new updates in the form of version 1.7.4. Here's what's new.Oxwall 1.7.4Alongside some platform improvements and bug fixes, here's what Oxwall users can expect to find when they update their software. Forums & Photos:Advanced search added to Forums.Search results relevancy improved."Filter by user" language key Added.Users can now edit/view personal photos when service "View photo" is not active.Messages, NewsFeed & Social Sharing:Social services' management interface is now based on Ajax fixed issue with a Logged Out user showing as Online in Mobile Version Like and Delete buttons now work on Oxwall mobile version.Issue with Read messages showing as Unread fixed.Interface issues
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What The Food Industry Needs To Learn About Food Bloggers: Busting The Myths

The next installment of my series on trying to illuminate everyone on what it is that we food bloggers actually do is all about busting the myths. I ve picked the most common ones that I see day to day, the misconceptions, the fabrications and more. Myth 1 : Food Bloggers Just Like To Complain. Or...Read More
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How To Make Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs

Confession time. Peeling boiled eggs makes me mad. Peeling eggs makes me so mad that my family usually runs away from the kitchen when it s time for me to tackle the task. I might have yelled once while peeling eggs, threw them back into the pot and walked out of the kitchen fuming, irrationally furious. Fine, you caught me. The above statement is a lie. It s happened more than once. Peeling eggs and having them look like a badger chewed them and spit them out makes me irrationally mad. Ask Mike. He runs away and hides when it s time to peel eggs in our house. Either that or he gently takes the eggs out of my hands, steers me towards the couch and tells me to sit while he does it. (I still hate that they look like a badger chewed them but at least I didn t do it. Rational, right?) I m sure that you can understand how this is a problem being a deviled eggs lover. Oh, I love a good retro deviled egg and a recipe for my smoky bacon deviled eggs is coming right up this weekend after I
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BuddyPress 2.3.0 “Livio” Released

BuddyPress, the popular WordPress social network and community building plugin, has just released its latest version.Following its tradition of naming versions after their favourite restaurants, BuddyPress 2.3.0 has been titled after “Chez Livio”, an Italian Pizza specialist in Paris, France. Version 2.3.0 comes bundled with a number of noteworthy features.New Avatar UI, Better Blog Media Handling & MoreFirst up, BuddyPress users now have better control over avatars, thanks to a new interface.The interface allows users to drag-and-drop upload and then quickly crop their desired image. Users who have a webcam enables, or users who are using their smartphones, will also be able to take a photo directly from the interface using the "Take Photo" tab.BuddyPress 2.3.0 is the best looking version yet, thanks to companion stylesheets for bundles WordPress themes like Twenty Fifteen. Also, blog media, such as images and video, will now show up in activity feeds as part of the excerpt
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Craft CMS 2.4 - Chock full of Improvements and Additions

Craft CMS, one of the winners of our CMS awards for Best Small to Midsize Business PHP CMS, has announced  a slew of new updates with their 2.4 release. Here is a quick breakdown on some of the changes and additions you can expect from this great CMS.Customizable Selection ButtonsAssets, Categories, Entries, Tags, and Users fields now make it possible to customize their selection button/input labels.Redesigned User PermissionsEach section of user permissions now has a “Select All” button which will immediately select all of the permissions in that group.Two New LanguagesThe Control Panel has been translated into two new languages: Czech and Slovak. That brings the grand total up to 18 supported languages!And More!Check out the release notes for a complete list of all that’s changed!
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Buffalo Cauliflower au Gratin

What they say about buffalo hot sauce is completely true. I DO put that $%&! on everything. I make Buffalo Hot Wing Tacos. Which are freaking fantastic. I make the best, and I do mean THE BEST Buffalo Hot Sauce, Bacon & Jalapeno Mac n Cheese. I wouldn t say it if I didn t mean it. This stuff is amazing. Make it. Now. However, now it s time to bring you something else. Something a little bit healthier (not much, let s be honest, any cheese sauce isn t the lowest in calories) that uses up one of my favorite vegetables, cauliflower. Buffalo Cauliflower au Gratin! Ooooh. This makes me want to be in my kitchen at home again. We have a lovely little kitchen here in Paris right now, but it s not the same. I need my stuff man. If you are looking for a hot side dish for your summer BBQ, I highly suggest this one. It s lighter than potatoes and the hot flavor of the buffalo sauce is perfect to go along with your burgers. Who else is excited that BBQ Season is here? Summer! Gardens! Fresh food
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Announcing uKit, a Drag and Drop Website Builder for Small Business

There's always space in the market for easy to use tools that small business owners can use to create their websites. Today, the folks responsible for the popular uCoz website builder have announced the release of their new drag and drop website builder designed specifically for small businesses.Meet uKit. uKit is a drag-and-drop website builder that empowers micro and small sized businesses to create personalized websites in an easy yet effective way.The user-created websites are designed to adapt seamlessly across all devices including mobile tablets and smartphones. While offering a range of templates and custom design options, the site limits user customizations based on recommendations from design professionals to help customers avoid "development gone wrong” scenarios like mismatched fonts, awkward color combinations, unprofessional headers and other design mishaps.“Micro, small businesses and freelancers account for over 95% of the world’s enterprises and with increasing
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What is a Transatlantic Cruise Really Like?

I am starting almost in the middle of our travels and going to the end of the cruise. Don t worry, I m editing up the pictures of our room on the Royal Carribean Cruise and going to give you all the details and my thoughts. This post just sprang up and wrote itself. Almost. This isn t the usual type of travel post I write here on the Kitchen Magpie, but in the past two weeks after taking our very first transatlantic cruise with Royal Caribbean I have been asked more times than I can count what was it really like. Every time I mention the cruise as it s how we got to Europe instead of flying so it comes up in conversation with strangers all the time people perk up and want to know. Again today I was asked by other people who love cruises and haven t yet taken one so I figured I ll start in the middle and try and tell everyone what it s like. So here it is. What a Transatlantic Cruise Really Like! 1.) Transatlantic Cruises are Long While you don t have to take a two-week cruise like
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Ghost Introduces Post Previews

Ghost users can now preview their posts within their chosen theme before publication.The free and cloud-hosted blogging solution was crowned winner of the 2014 Critics' Choice Award for Most Promising CMS.As one of the most exciting blogging platforms on the market, Ghost already does a lot of things right. But post previewing was certainly a missing feature, and will no doubt be welcomed by Ghost users.See It & Share ItNow, Ghost users can open the post settings menu and hit the post preview link to see exactly what the post is going to look like before it goes live. Users will see the post in the context of their active theme -- exactly as any visitor would see it.Interestingly, users can also send a preview link to others for proof-reading or feedback purposes. Ghost Pro users already have access to this new feature. Self-hosted Ghost users will need to upgrade to Ghost 0.6.3 in order to benefit.You can see the official announcement right here.Otherwise, be sure to explore
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Clarabridge Acquires Engagor CEM

Clarabridge, Inc. today announced the acquisition of Engagor, the most comprehensive platform for real-time social customer service and engagement. The combined offering provides a complete, end-to-end technology solution for marketers, customer care organizations and operations teams to create more profitable customer relationships.Founded by Folke Lemaitre in 2011, Belgium-based Engagor offers a robust social listening and engagement platform for marketers and customer care organizations at Fortune 1000 businesses. With the acquisition of Engagor, Clarabridge now offers more extensive customer experience management capabilities. The Clarabridge platform, which collects, analyzes, and activates customer feedback data from all channels, gains the additional functionality of advanced social listening, publishing, governance, along with real-time social customer service and engagement.“As the market has expanded, leading enterprises are looking for solutions that can bring toget
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Free advice for those who are having a tough time finding a CMS

Every day I get several emails from people and companies looking to find the perfect platform for their needs. While I try to answer as many as I can, sometimes emails get missed or I run out of time to answer them or they get buried in the mass of incoming emails. For this reason, we launched the CMS Critic Forums.On our forums, you can post your question and either myself, Kaya or one of our readers can provide you with suggestions as to which product you might want to explore further. Obviously for complicated questions, some of these may require a separate consulting engagement but we'll certainly do our best to point you in the right direction or, at the very least, offer some methods to help you get there.The forums are a great place for you to:Ask questionsRequest information on a specific product (How would WordPress work as a realty website?, etc)Share your successes or failure stories (I tried this CMS and it was great or I tried something and hated it and here's my experien
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The Grande Rockies Resort, Canmore, Alberta

When we started out on Karlynn & Mike s Excellent Adventure, you might have noticed that we stopped on in Canmore, Alberta for a couple of days. Tourism Canmore had asked me if I would like to come out and visit them and see what there is to do in Canmore with the kids. The answer to that, of course, was a resounding yes!  As much as we travel abroad, there is honestly no place like home when it comes down to it. Our amazing Rocky Mountains hold a place near and dear to my heart that can t be replaced. Since we were only homethree short weeks between Arizona and leaving for Europe, I managed to squeeze in a trip to Canmore at the beginning of our trip. We dropped off Root Beer at my sister s house in Airdrie for his two month visit with his dog cousin Zoe and continued on to Canmore to start our journey. We were hosted by the Grande Rockies Resort, somewhere that I had never stayed before. It s a gorgeous place with fantastic views of the mountains. We had the one bedroom suite, wh
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