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Sunday, January 27, 2013

HowChow Praises Xitomate, Coalition Questioned: Howard County Blog Roundup

Highlights from the Howard County blogosphere.

  HowChow Reviews Xitomate Xitomate, a new Mexican restaurant, opened earlier this month just off of Snowden River Parkway on the Columbia and Ellicott City line. It didn't take long for local food blogger HowChow to try it out. His post also includes a guest post from Jackie of La Casa De Sweets.  From Jackie: Chiles Rellenos: We’ve come to agree that the authenticity of a Mexican restaurant is its treatment of a chile relleno. The chile, cheese, and sauce all matter. Xitomate’s version is perfect. It’s stuffed with the right amount of real Mexican cheese, the chile itself is flavorful, and the tomato chipotle sauce packed on even more flavor to the dish. From HowChow: Both the tacos and enchiladas showed off a kitchen that works to be …

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Living with Mental Illness, Political Fundraising: Howard County Blog Roundup

Patch highlights some of the best of the Howard County blogosphere.

  Shame by HoCoHouseHon In an incredibly candid post, local blogger Alice describes her experience living with Bipolar disorder. Read the whole post. I'm a real person. Some of you know me only through this blog, though most others I think are friends and family members. And being a real person, disregarding any online persona, I have to face the every day life of being a young woman with a chemical imbalance which makes me cry like Van Gogh and smile like the Mona Lisa. It makes me play the piano with the wet cough of Chopin; it makes me immobile, sometimes, with perfectionism and fear. These are my mornings and evenings, my afternoon teas, the way I fall asleep and the way I wake up at 7:23 craving a cup of coffee.  HoCo Rising on County…

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Bikes, Buses and Boobs: Notes from the Elkridge Blogs

The Rockburn Skills Park, Howard Transit and weaning children were covered this week on Elkridge Patch blogs.

This week, Elkridge Patch welcomed two new bloggers to the site. Rockburn Skills Park, the organization building a mountain bike course through Rockburn Branch Park, and Chris Dick, an Elkridge native, both published their first entries on Elkridge Patch this week. Welcome! In addition, veteran blogger Katryn Stewart wrote a make-you-laugh-then-make-you-cry post about breastfeeding and the impact it has on her family. Got something to say? Tell us in the comments or start your own blog.

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