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Seriously. I’m Summer-sick. Since I do these posts all Summer, I thought maybe it would help me feel like it might, maybe, possibly get warm out, someday. 6: Classes taught today 174: Students taught today 47: Minutes per class 26: Minutes of free time 24: Ounces of coffee consumed 24: Ounces of Diet Coke consumed [...]

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Big Bowl Blogger Lunch

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on November 23, 2010

in Asian, friends, pork

On Sunday, I had the pleasure of meeting up with some amazing Chicago-area bloggers at Big Bowl, a local Asian-fusion restaurant. I’ve been going to Big Bowl for as long as I can remember, but even though its only a few minutes away, I never go anymore! I was excited to go to the restaurant, [...]

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About 3 weeks ago, the lovely people at Kikkoman sent me a HUGE box of goodies with one intent: create a “practice” Thanksgiving meal using their products, and share my ideas with you, my readers! I jumped at the chance because, believe it or not, I’d never made a turkey. Once our Thanksgiving plans were [...]

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A Pizza By Any Other Name

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on October 16, 2010

in Asian, fish or seafood

A mere month ago, I was saying that I wasn’t going to enter “that Project Food Blog thing” because I didn’t think I’d get very far. Amazingly, here I am, halfway through, with FIVE challenges under my (ever-increasing) belt. Thank you all for your incredible support, links, tweets, and votes! This challenge, to “create a [...]

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Project Food Blog Challenge #1: Ready, Set, Blog!

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on September 16, 2010

in Asian, Baking, family, friends, tofu

I’ve decided to go for it… I’m throwing my proverbial hat into the proverbial ring (or should I rather say I’m throwing my whisk into the pot?) for Foodbuzz’s Project Food Blog! Challenge #1: Create a post that defines you as a food blogger. As a food blogger, many times we’re lumped into various categories. [...]

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A Funny Thing Happened…

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on July 25, 2010

in Asian, dinner out, friends, giveaway

About a month ago, I got an email from the people at MyBlogSpark asking me if I’d be interested in attending a “thank you dinner” at Ben Pao, an “upscale Asian restaurant” in the heart of Downtown Chicago. It was a thank you for reviewing two of their products, which I did here and here. [...]

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