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Does anything scream “Christmas” quite like marshmallows? Peppermint and cinnamon, so much better than “pumpkin pie spice”And apparently they needn’t come from bags - you can make them yourself! And if you are truly OCD you can even make them into marshmallow snowflakes.   What a great gift for all the, um, snowflakes in your life.You can make them in any flavor of the season: chocolate caramel, peppermint, gingerbread…also better than “pumpkin pie spice.”as well as any species:But is there any marshmallow as cute and fun as the snowmen? Gingerbread Snowflakes’  marshmallow snowmen When I saw these little guys I recognized...

Remember eating Lucky Charms and watching Saturday morning cartoons? Well, now a Virginia brewery is trying to recreate that magic for you — in beer form. Smartmouth Brewing in Norfolk has come out with a beer called Saturday Morning that's brewed with in-house toasted marshmallows and bulk dehydrated marshmallow bits. The brewery says the beer has a "slight cereal taste" and is "magically ridiculous." It's on a very limited release and will make its way to a handful of restaurants, bars and specialty bottle shops in Virginia. To celebrate the release, Smartmouth Brewing will host a “Saturday Morning All Day”...

IHC:  I hate computers. I was working on a post and all of a sudden it disappeared; completely, irrevocably, irretrievably; the victim of an undefined ERROR. So here I am, leaving at the crack of dawn and I don’t have a post ready. So this is going to be necessarily brief.All the discussion yesterday about sweet potatoes with/without marshmallows got me thinking… about marshmallows! Aren’t marshmallows a great Christmas theme? So I selected some seasonal marshmallow music - Mark Steyn & Jessica Martin’s disco version of “It’s A Marshmallow World” Unfortunately that’s pretty much all I’ve got time for today....

Since it now seems very imminent, I decided that it was an appropriate time to start this up. Links to information and pictures (if we get them) can be posted here.