Posts by: Kris

cupcake win(s)!

On June 6, 2010 By

What hap­pens when you are a pro­cras­ti­na­tor of epic pro­por­tions (I have two “impor­tant” things I am sup­posed to be work­ing on but don’t feel par­tic­u­larly invested in) and you are child­less and asked to make cup­cakes for a 3-year-old’s birth­day party? You go a little crazy.

Straw­berry cream-filled vanilla cup­cakes with straw­berry buttercream […]

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soup in juneuary

On June 2, 2010 By

A few weeks ago, we Port­landers were pre­ma­turely vis­ited by sum­mer. It was warm and sunny and glo­ri­ous. Now our days are dark, we are expe­ri­enc­ing bib­li­cal rain and we have lapsed back into muddy win­ter weather.

I have tasted the fruits of sum­mer and I am not a happy camper.

Alas, given that […]

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face lift!

On May 31, 2010 By

Hey there!

I thought it was about time to give the ol’ nom! a face lift. I hope you like the new look. I have also updated the recipe sec­tions (mostly, there might still be some miss­ing and just float­ing around in the archives. I’ve divvied all of the recipes into cat­e­gories for […]

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adventures in chickpealand…

On May 29, 2010 By

Things will be wind­ing down a bit soon, and I have lots of yum­mi­ness to post. Soon, I promise.

Until then, we have a chick­pea adven­ture that is slowly unfold­ing. Let me tell you a little story…

Once upon a time, two dried chick­peas were bored. They sat around in a mason jar with all of […]

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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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