First of all, I’m overwhelmed by the response to my request for donations to the 5K I’m walking in a few weeks! The donation page is going to be up until April 30, so please stop by if you can even spare a dollar! I got a few inquiries about the blogger “flea market” I’ll [...]
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Spring is, quite possibly, my favorite time of year. Besides the longer days, warmer weather, and everyone’s general better mood, the produce is just fantastic. After months and months of potatoes, hard squashes, root vegetables, and other things that grow underground, Spring brings about things that are green. Not just green, but that delicious bright [...]
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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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Every summer for as long as I’ve worked at camp, we’ve gone to Green Meadows Farm for a day on a real working farm. Last year, it was the first week of camp, it was a bit chilly, and most photos have me in my sweatshirt. This year was a different story. I’ll let the [...]
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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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Remember me?? I used to be this food and cooking blogger that wrote every day… yeah, pretty much, this summer is kicking my butt! I’ve been busy and beyond exhausted, but hopefully things will calm down soon. So, by popular demand… 224: Campers in attendance 10: Campers in my group 2: Campers that put clothing [...]
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I’d been looking forward to June 26 for a long time. Besides the fact that it was my dad’s birthday (happy late birthday Dad!), it was the scheduled night for our bi-monthly meeting of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pans! We decided at our last meeting that our next culinary stop would be Latin America, [...]
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I’ve talked a few other times about “recipe trust”. You know, those people that, when they send you a recipe, you know it must be tried? I’ve got a few people that I trust unconditionally when it comes to recipes. Well, my mom is one of those people. I don’t know that there’s ever been [...]
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My senior year of college, my mom and I went out to Denver to visit my sister in culinary school. It was on that trip that I discovered the importance of hydration at higher altitudes, the importance of having a destination in mind when setting out for dinner, and the true wonder that are fish [...]
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