From the monthly archives: February 2010

teesy tater tot hotdish

On February 17, 2010 By

Teese Chal­lenge #1:

In the Mid­west there are casse­role dishes, but there are not casseroles. There is hot­dish. The essen­tial kind of hot­dish: tater tot.

Now, I’ll be hon­est with you– my mother never really cooked and I don’t care for tater tots, so I never dined on the authen­tic dish before, but I know that it […]

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and the winners are…

On February 15, 2010 By

Okay, I couldn’t just do one give­away. When I went to Food Fight the other day to pick up some extra good­ies, dou­bles kept jump­ing into my basket.

Boris and Alli­son R! Please drop me a line at nomblog {ala} gmail {dot} com and I will get your copies of The 100 Best Vegan Baking […]

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cleaning house contest!

On February 10, 2010 By

This year one of my goals is to have less “stuff”. I’m try­ing to con­sume less chem­i­cal gross­ness (just because it’s vegan, doesn’t mean you should eat it…like Baco’s) and to purge unnec­es­sary junk from our house.

We’ve really been try­ing to focus on nour­ish­ing our bod­ies. And with a lit­tle prep, it’s too easy […]

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cracked is a little whack…

On February 7, 2010 By

Hello there!

I hope Jan­u­ary was fruit­ful for every­one. Can you believe it’s Feb­ru­ary ALREADY?! 2010 is shap­ing up to fly by fast.

Other than being busy, not much has changed over here… my pis­ta­chio kick is still hold­ing strong. I just can’t get enough of their com­plex aroma, fla­vor, color… nom. I have been eating […]

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