Food For Thought

2009 Year In Review

32 comments January 4, 2010

It was one year ago today that I joined the food blogging circus. In some ways it flew by, and in others, it felt like time stood still. 2009 dealt [...]

Reader Mailbag

18 comments December 21, 2009

Here are some questions I have been asked, via e-mail, since the beginning of the year. Are you curious about something? I’ll be nice if you will. Make contact. What [...]

A meal so bad, my dogs wouldn’t eat it.

28 comments December 2, 2009

I’ve been trying out some slow cooker recipes lately. This Creamy Chicken Casserole sounded okay – vegetables, stuffing, chicken. Nothing great, but certainly it had the makings of an easy, [...]

Slow Cooked Applesauce (and Emma Krumbees Apple Orchard)

20 comments October 21, 2009

This past weekend promised the last semi-warm temperatures (and when I say semi-warm, I mean 50′s), so off to Emma Krumbees we went. I had been hearing about this place [...]

Turning Chicken Shit Into Chicken Salad

29 comments September 14, 2009

Paul and I are smart people. Really we are. Although some of our decisions in the last five years would suggest otherwise. Like when we both thought filling out an [...]

There you are, my lovelies

20 comments August 20, 2009

I waited so long. But here you are. Finally. And what could be more delicious than a fresh tomato from my garden? Fresh basil from my garden, too. On top [...]

Hospital Food

31 comments August 17, 2009

What’s worse than seeing your young child hooked up to medical machines and an I.V.? Hmm. Nothing. Well, other than the unthinkable, of course. The Reader’s Digest version is that [...]

Money Saving Tips On Food

6 comments July 9, 2009

“Holy cow, Batman!” she says with a huge smile. The response to Will Work For Food was fantastic. I also posted the article on Serious Eats, which turned into it’s [...]

Will Work For Food

32 comments July 6, 2009

Unemployment doesn’t discriminate. It will take anyone; blue collar, middle class, the rich, the cute, the ugly, the kind, the obnoxious. A couple of weeks ago, Paul was a casualty [...]

A Watched Pot Never Boils

10 comments June 18, 2009

As if living in the arctic wasn’t hard enough (with all the layering, shoveling, windshield scraping, car warming, and high heating bills), but the wait time between the first snowfall [...]

Early Movie Review: Food, Inc.

17 comments May 26, 2009

Rated PG • 94 minutes • In Theaters June 12, 2009 Today we walk through a market and are amazed at the 40,000 or so different products we may find [...]

Ode to the Tomato

4 comments February 11, 2009

Pablo Neruda, author of my all-time favorite poem Sonnet 17, also wrote another poem that seems appropriate to post here. This is the English translation. If you prefer the authentic [...]

Hello food lovers everywhere

5 comments January 4, 2009

Some people create blogs to vent, to exercise their writing capabilities, or to simply let others know where they are. And some people just love to write about what they [...]

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