new food friday 11.12.10

Wow, it’s been a while since my last New Food Friday post. There were two major problems. First, I kept forgetting what day of the week it was. Second, I wasn’t really eating any new foods. You see how that sort of cramped my New Food Friday style? But I’m back with a fun one! […]

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the dinner mystery solved

This is my third year of NaBloPoMo, and I always manage to forgot how hard it is. I really try to avoid throw-away posts just for the sake of getting something up, but sometimes I’m just out of time and energy. That’s the lesson of the exercise, however, so on we go! Yesterday I posted […]

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what's for dinner?

Our new apartment is an upgrade in many ways. It’s in a walkable neighborhood near things we actually want to walk to. It’s less expensive than our old place, and it’s two levels. You get the idea. The bad part is that the kitchen is tiny and the whole downstairs is rather cave-like. This translates […]

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where do you go for health information?

Scrolling through Twitter this morning, I saw a few people link to a clip from ABC’s Nightline which talks about the new trend of going gluten-free. I couldn’t embed the video (warning: turn down your speakers, the ads are SO LOUD). If you don’t want to click-through or watch it at all, here is the […]

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the epic california road trip of 2010

The last weekend of my show, inspired by the lovely Amanda, my husband and I decided to go on a road trip. Five days later we packed up the car and drove north. We had a basic itinerary (nothing firm, just a good grasp on major sites), a bag full of travel guides from the […]

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another nablopomo thanksgiveaway!

Last year during NaBloPoMo I did a little giveaway just before Thanksgiving. It’s fun to reward you for being my readers, even in small ways. In the future I do hope to offer up more fun stuff, but right now that hefty $3 a month I’m raking in from ad revenue generally goes towards food. […]

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the kitchen reader: shark's fin and sichuan pepper

The October selection for The Kitchen Reader was Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop chosen by Jessica of Are You Hungary?. So this is a book about the unexpected wonders of Chinese cuisine. It is also the tale of an English girl who went to China, […]

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a girl needs a knife… and i've got mine

A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.~ Katharine Hepburn How often do you sharpen your knives? A while back I was hanging out with a friend as it was approaching dinnertime. She had a ton of CSA veggies at home, so we headed back to her place, and had the boys meet […]

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csa share 11/04/10

Remember how I complained the other day that it was 85 degrees in November? And how I mentioned in passing that the day after my birthday was the hottest day in San Diego in 75 years? Well today’s 100-degree temperatures broke that record and made me sorry I grumbled in the first place. My brave […]

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colorful quinoa non-casserole

Sometimes I forget how much I like quinoa. Unlike rice which I buy in multi-pound sacks, I buy quinoa judiciously from the bulk bins at the natural foods store. I end up with small remnant bags scattered throughout the cupboard until I collect enough to make a whole batch. This was a great quinoa dish […]

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