A bunch of food bloggers and I are having lunch today with Chef Rocco DiSpirito at the BlogHer conference in San Francisco. He’ll be demonstrating how to use the new Bertolli Premium Pasta Sauce in a pouch
Date night at home? With two obnoxious kids who are wrecking my home when they’re not sleeping (yes, I’m having One of those Summers) that’s impossible. Still, I wonder how Bertolli’s sauce compares to a similar product Ragu recently released. I reviewed Ragu’s pouch sauce at My Readable Feast – see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (and a little Ragu) and thought it was mighty tasty. I also liked that it was sweetened with carrot juice instead of sugar or corn syrup.
Rocco will also share one of his recipes and demonstrate how 90 seconds is all it takes to get a restaurant quality pasta sauce. (Can you say, “Microwave?”) After the short demo, Rocco hang out for questions, pictures, and conversation. Yay, picture taking ops! I’m so there with my Sony Cybershot DSCW170
In the meantime, I leave you with some food, er, posts for thought:
- Life Lessons from the Weight Room – If you can relate to lifting weights or any other form of exercise/athleticism and know you’ve learned a thing or two about life from it, Melanie would love for you to weigh in on this.
- Blogging the Hard Truth: Stephanie Quilao Interview by Cranky Fitness. Stephanie of Back in Skinny Jeans discusses her bulimia and the pros and cons of blogging your weight loss.
- 5 Ways to Keep Fit on the Road – Oh fuggettaboutit, I’m on vacation. But I will be visiting the hotel’s gym to work out before my massage, la de da.
- Reading burns calories – Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp – An interview of author Stephanie Klein by Jeanette Fulda of Half of Me. Jeanette is also the author of Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir and my roommate at BlogHer. Stephanie blogs at Greek Tragedy and will be one of the keynote speakers at BlogHer.
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Healthy lunch ideas – bento lunch boxes for dieters and brown baggers
Post-BlogHer detoxing with some healthy fruit drinks
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Thanks so much for mentioning Stephanie’s interview over at Cranky Fitness. Wish I could see her speak at the conference.
And have a great lunch! I’ll be very curious about the microwave sauce, being both extremely fond of pasta and extremely lazy. Most bottled stuff, even the really expensive ones, taste fake to me, so if there’s an alternative I’m all for it. I’ll have to check out the other one you mentioned too.
Hope blogher is fun (sigh). Sure wish I was there.
Can’t wait to read about what lunch was like — and whether he said anything about the disintegration of his restaurant partnership on television. It was one of the few “reality” shows that I ever watched, and it just about cured me from watching any others. I guess he had to get a corporate angel (Bertoli) to rescue him from that debacle.
Claire @ http://culinary-colorado.blogspot.com
Thanks so much for the encouragement to go to my blog post, Life Lessons from the Weight Room. Considering the thoughtful comments I am receiving, I suspect there will be a Part II.
I am enjoying navigating around your sites and plan to return often.
Just noticed my colleague, Claire Walter’s post. She has a great foodie site, too.
Melanie Mulhall
http://www.melaniemulhall.wordpress.com
http://www.thatcopywriter.com
http://www.thedragonheart.com
I was so sorry not to have been able to make it to the conference this year. From what I’ve been reading, it sounds as if it was simply terrific.
Can’t wait to hear your details on your lunch with Rocco and for your pictures to be posted!!
Susan
http://www.catapultfitnessblog.com