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Shop Michigan: Gingered Asparagus and Bow Tie Pasta Salad Card from Veggie Cards

May 31, 2007 – 8:51 am

Asparagus season is winding down in Michigan, but there's still time to whip up a culinary masterpiece using the Gingered Asparagus and Bow Tie Pasta Salad Card from Veggie cards.
To see this card and check out all the others (and recipes) head over to veggiecards.com.
Each Veggie Card features a whimsical drawing by Leslie Arwin [...]

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Shop Michigan: Birdola Plus Cake from Birdola

May 2, 2007 – 9:02 am

The Birdola Plus Cake is a two pound cake filled with sunflower seeds, safflower, peanuts, millet, calcium, and grit. The cake also has vitamins, minerals, and electrolytes to help keep the birds healthy, happy, and coming back for more.
In 1988 Birdola finally got fed up with the whole process of feeding birds loose seeds, so [...]

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Blogs We Dig: Kitchen Chick

April 17, 2007 – 9:23 am

Kitchen Chick will fill you in on just about anything you need to know about cooking: Chinese pickled vegetables, a Polish grocery store in Ann Arbor, even the explosion in Mexican and Central American restaurants in the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti area. The blog also features some very, very good recipes with photos guaranteed to make you [...]

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Shop Michigan: Gitchi Gumee from Mackinac Island Press

April 5, 2007 – 8:08 am

Gitchi Gumee by Anne Margaret Lewis and illustrated by Kathleen Chaney Fritz is a beautiful children's book with superb illustrations and a great story. Gitchi Gumee means "big water" and the book is about just that. A little boy lives on the Big Lake and is curious about sailing it, the story then proceeds to [...]

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Blogs We Dig: GM FastLane Blog

April 4, 2007 – 9:02 am

Bob Lutz introduces the Volt electric
GM FastLane keeps its readers up to date on all GM's happenings, from the unveiling of its new Chevrolet Volt, a plug-in electric hybrid concept vehicle to gritty discussions about fuel economy. One of the coolest parts is the fact that GM's executives are writing most of the posts.
It was [...]

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Shop Michigan: M22 Classic T-Shirt

March 30, 2007 – 7:56 am

The M22 Classic T-Shirt is a terrific T-shirt from the Grand Traverse Area. This totally comfortable T-shirt represents "'North America's best kept secret."
M22 was founded in 2002 by a group of Northern Michigan kiteboarders. The guys were scribbling graphics for a sticker when the design for M22 came into being. They say that M22 [...]

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Trout Fishing … in a kayak?

March 29, 2007 – 9:09 am

Trout fishing in a kayak? Who'da thunk it, but he actually caught one, two ... man this guy is good.

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Blogs We Dig: Blue Cats and Red Sox

March 20, 2007 – 8:41 am

scoring the game by Boston Fan in Michigan
Blue Cats and Red Sox is written by "a Bostonian at University of Michigan OBSESSED by baseball," but I guess how could she not be, coming from Boston. Luckily she manages to talk about other sports (and cities) as well, maybe because baseball isn't always in season? Baseball, [...]

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