To help celebrate the April release of the book, Today’s Moms: Essentials for Surviving Baby’s First Year, the producers (of  The Today Show & Authors) are holding a live “Ask the Author” session on Twitter! The event will take place on Tuesday, March 24th between 2-4 pm EST. For the actual event, they’ll be using the tag #todaysmoms to keep up with the tweets.

If you can’t make it for the actual Twitter event, you can ask questions ahead of time, in fact, you are encouraged to do so. MaryAnn and Alicia (@todaysmoms), ask that you use the hashtag #asktodaysmoms to ask questions ahead of time or leave a question on their facebook page.

Some burning questions on my mind include:

• *)What snacks are provided for them during the work day, if any.
• *)What is there favorite kid friendly dish to prepare.
• *)Do they eat the food that is cooked by a chef, that was on air that day.

I’m excited to hear their answers and hope you join us for the session on Twitter.  Remember to ask ahead of time if you think you won’t be able to make it!

Feel free to share your questions here with me as well and I’ll do my best to pass them on!

P.S.  You can ask them whatever you like;)

P.P.S.  My good friend Wendy was recently on the Today Show, check her out!  She’s a brilliant gal who’s come a long way and is very deserving of all the media attention she gets!

It’s that time again, time for the quarterly bloggy giveaways!  I’ll keep this short and simple…it’s midnight here and I’m tired.

Up for grabs is a PINK Flip Video Camera.  They are so cool.  2 members of my foodie community won one and they are having a blast with them!

HOW TO ENTER

Leave a comment telling me what some of your favorite things are.

You can enter DAILY!!! Yep, come back and enter every single day for even more chances.  And if you really want to triple those entries, you can do the following:

• Stumble this post
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Leave each one you do in a separate comment please for it to count.

This giveaway ends on Feb. 1st!  Good luck:)

Last week I made Lemon Bread, this week is Orange Pound Cake.  I’m sucker for pound cake anyways but wanted to try adding a little flavor to one. This was a hit to say the least and gone in about 30 seconds.  Would have been sooner but they had to pause and drink some milk with it.

p.s. I would love to see you join the new foodie community.  I already gave away two fabulous prizes to active members and that’s only the beginning;)

INGREDIENTS

• 1 stick butter (1/2cup), Unsalted & room temp
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 6 tbsp orange juice (1/4cup if freshly squeezed)
• 1/4 cup milk (you can use 2% if you want)
• 1/2 tsp grated orange rind

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 325′ and have your 9×5 loaf pan buttered and ready to go.

Cream butter & sugar, then add eggs and mix well; set aside.  In another bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt.  In a measuring cup combine orange juice, milk and orange zest and start adding butter mixture alternating with the flour mixture until light & creamy.

Spoon (pour) into pan and bake for 45min or until center comes out clean with toothpick.  Cool in pan and then remove from pan and drizzle with glaze.

OPTIONAL GLAZE

• 2tbsp orange juice
• 1/3 cup confectioner’s sugar

Mix together and drizzle on cake while still warm.