I found this wonderful gem thrift shopping today. Creative cooking with and without recipes. I can’t wait to savor every word.It’s filled with wonderful Zen quotes, cooking tips and recipes. Here’s a quote from the books jacket
“Cooking can be one of the most sensual and transcendent activities we experience—every combination of ingredients yields a new [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on January 19, 2008 | 11 Comments »
I did it.
My company offered up a voluntary separation package today, to cut workforce numbers and I applied for it. I am leaving the corporate jungle to follow my passions. The VSP will provide me with 6 months of pay and benefits, so I have a small safety net, but I can’t say I’m not [...]
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As previously mentioned I’m catching up on my food porn movies this month. Yesterday sitting in my mailbox, courtesy of NetFlix was the movie Yin shi nan nu also known as “Eat Drink Man Woman” -Ang Lee.
The film itself even with out the blow your mind food scenes is delightful. You fall in love with [...]
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Posted in Recipes, tagged Koolickles, Pickles, recipe on January 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Oh yes you heard me correctly. I guess this is a food fad that is crossing the nation, and as usual, by living in the Midwest, I’m always the last to know.
I was siting on my couch this evening preparing next weeks menu with Alton Brown playing in the background. I wasn’t paying much attention [...]
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I’ve mentioned before that my favorite qualities in a recipe are economical, easy and yummy! PM has graced me with one of her wonderful recipes that is meets all three of these criteria!
Make sure you check out her blog, you will find a goddess who is funny, intelligent, thought provoking, spiritual and extremely artistic. Stop by [...]
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My 1977 edition of Betty Crocker’s Cooking for Girls and Boys came in the mail yesterday! It was my first ever cookbook. It was heavily used and I’m sure it got tossed many years ago. Now I have a brand new one that just fills me with happy nostalgia as I flip through the oh [...]
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I have a confession.
I’m afraid of tofu.
Not eating it, I LOVE to eat it, but COOKING it. I tried to make it once back in the 90’s. It wasn’t pretty. I won’t go into the details but will be forever known as the “The Tofu incident of ‘94”
Since then I have avoided it like the [...]
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Posted in Lifestyle, Movies on January 5, 2008 | 6 Comments »
This is a repost from my personal blog, but I wanted to move it over here because it’s my philosophy for the coming year.
Buono Appetit!
Thank you Federico Fellini! I watched Amarcord again last night and found myself complete enamored with these beautiful Italian women. Gorgeous, confident, goddesses, most of whom where pushing a size 14. [...]
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Posted in Food Porn, Movies on January 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It was reported recently that more than 50% of Americans would rather eat a memorable dinner than experience a great night of sex. So I’ve been sneaking food porn into our Netflix que. I’ve gone into our que and quietly and moved Troy’s foreign documentaries down the list and moved my Foodie flicks up.
Due to [...]
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I stayed home from work today. I’m fighting off something and spent most of the day in bed. I did manage to make a frittata for dinner. Oh no, I’m not a martyr, it’s just my husband said he’d gladly pick up some McDonald’s on the way home so I had no choice but to [...]
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