It’s a good day when, for no other reason than pure appreciation, a student decides to make up her own 8 days of Hanukkah so that she can treat me to 8 gifts before we leave for winter break. Yesterday, an army of hedgehog donut holes Their little faces stared up at me all day, [...]
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After a far-too-long hiatus, the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pans met for what I’m calling PansGiving, or, in other words, The Traveling Pans Does Thanksgiving. It was a remarkable spread of quite phenomenal food from horseradish-cranberry sauce to squash spaetzle, and as always, the company trumped the food. We gathered first in Liz’s kitchen and [...]
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Where’d we leave off? Oh right, Diana and I had eaten the meal of our lives at Chez Panisse, taken a cab there and back, and gotten to bed decidedly too late. Like, way too late. As in 12:30 a.m. California time which was 2:30 a.m. Chicago time, which is where my brain was. A [...]
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I very rarely make gluten-free treats. Ok, that’s not completely true. I make gluten-free food all the time, just not for the sole reason of it being gluten-free. I don’t have any sort of gluten intolerance, nor do I toy with cutting out gluten for the sole reason that it’s “trendy.” However, as many of [...]
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I was a bit of a tease yesterday, huh? I left you with this and nothing else And I had a lot of guesses as to what I made. Some were close. Some were really far off! But your wait is over… I guess I didn’t make you wait long! I’ve always had a bit [...]
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Because I can. Any guesses?
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I’ve waxed poetic about meals before. I’ve said before that a dinner was “the best ever”. I was wrong. I was invited by the lovely Jackie from I Am A Feeder to join her during the Chicago leg of her “great adventure” for the experience that is dinner at Alinea, the famous restaurant by chef [...]
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I’ve been hassling the heck out of the staff at my school. For nearly two months, there was a weekly Monday morning email that I’d write to my staff saying something to the effect of “Blah blah blah Project Food Blog blah blah visit my post blah blah vote please!” And week after week, they, [...]
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I kind of can’t believe I’m here writing this post. When I first looked at the Project Food Blog challenges, I thought it would be “so great” to make it to Challenge #6 and pack a meal to go, and then I second-guessed myself and thought that it would be highly unlikely that I would [...]
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**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 [...]
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