Welcome BlogHer Food Bloggers. It was terrific to meet some of you at the Birds of a Feather breakout session at BlogHer ’06. (For the rest of you, this was chronicled by Kalyn’s Kitchen and Elise of Simply Recipes.) That’s me in the lower left hand corner of the picture looking directly at the camera. [...]
Posted on July 31, 2006 in More Stuff and tagged as BlogHer
Do you have any of the "Fix-It and Forget-It" series of cookbooks by New York Times bestselling author Phyllis Pellman Good? If not, the Fix-it And Enjoy-it Cookbook: All-purpose, Welcome-home Recipes is a good one to start with. It features easy to make, uncomplicated recipes using ingredients you probably already have at home. This recipe [...]
Posted on July 26, 2006 in Cookbooks,Recipes
I’m not one for chain restaurants, preferring local mom and pop joints. So I was reluctant to endorse anything the Olive Garden has to offer. However, their website is A-O.K. with me. Now you can watch cooking demonstrations of some of Olive Garden’s more popular dishes, like their Tuscan Garlic Chicken, Shrimp and Asparagus Risotto, [...]
Posted on July 22, 2006 in Cooking Shows,Recipes,Restaurant Reviews
Look appetizing? We had a fabulous dinner of steamed clams and mussels and shrimp and lobster boil we had while camping. It was in honor of Big Bad Dad’s 40th birthday. What a lucky guy. The clams were steamed in wine in a large pot over an open flame in the fire bit. The shrimp and lobster [...]
Posted on July 11, 2006 in Fish,Recipes and tagged as shrimp recipes
Congratulations to James, the winner for the copy of Mostly True: A Memoir of Family, Food and Baseball by Molly O’Neill! On a reading note, I was over at Barnes & Nobles University checking out the FREE online classes for July. And this is what I found: Meet Anthony Bourdain OMG, I love this man!!! [...]
Posted on July 10, 2006 in Books,Contests and Giveaways,Cookbooks