Voting for Project Food Blog Challenge #6 has begun! Please visit the FoodBuzz voting page and look for this picture, then click on the heart next to “Vote for this entry”. When the heart turns red, your vote has been counted! (Yes coworkers, that IS Stasia!) You can read the post here and follow the [...]
The time has come yet again for me to ask for YOUR help!! I’ve successfully completed round FIVE of Project Food Blog, and voting is open as of 8 a.m. CDT! The steps on the FoodBuzz site are the same as in the last rounds, but of course, I’ll recapitulate them for you: 1. Go [...]
**You may have seen this post before. It was inadvertently published 2 days early for about 2 hours!! If you commented, your comments are gone ** I got an email a few weeks ago from FoodBuzz asking for submissions to a smoothie contest. This was not to be just any smoothie, but rather a smoothie [...]
**REPOSTED FOR MY WEST COAST FRIENDS!!** I still can’t quite believe it. I wasn’t going to enter Project Food Blog because I was worried it would be a popularity contest, and the usual people would take it all. My friend Christina suggested that I go for it anyway, and here I am, one of 100 [...]
I still can’t quite believe it. I wasn’t going to enter Project Food Blog because I was worried it would be a popularity contest, and the usual people would take it all. My friend Christina suggested that I go for it anyway, and here I am, one of 100 contestants left in round 4! Voting [...]
Thanks to all of your support through Project Food Blog’s Challenges 1 and 2, I had the pleasure of participating (albeit a slightly different plan than originally envisioned) in Challenge 3: A Luxury Dinner Party. The voting for Challenge 3 begins now, so please head over to the FoodBuzz voting site and vote for me! [...]
I will absolutely never forget the first time I had a Monte Cristo sandwich. I believe I was in 6th grade, so about 11 years old, and just rediscovering how fun it is to be adventurous with food. Later that same year, I nixed red meat from my diet for about 15 years, but that’s [...]
NOW!! Please head over to my Project Food Blog Challenge #2 page and cast your vote by clicking on the heart at the top of the page and signing in to FoodBuzz. You can also click the picture below to bring you to my entry page. There are four HUNDRED entries, but there are a [...]
The second challenge for Project Food Blog seemed simple enough on the surface: Choose a classic dish from a culture other than your own and recreate it. Blog about the experience. The challenge stated to “do something outside your comfort zone.” The subtext, at least to me, was to cook a dish that I had [...]
Tomorrow morning is a monumental morning. It marks the first day of my 8th year of teaching Spanish! I can’t believe it, honestly. It seems like just yesterday I was getting my student teaching assignment. It never ceases to amaze me every year, though, the abundance of “new” that comes with the new year. New [...]