Posts by: Kris

the land of chocolate…

On September 8, 2009 By

*Reminder– my book sign­ing is this Sat­ur­day, Port­land peeps! Come out and claim what is right­fully yours– a cup­cake tat­too in an unmen­tion­able place… or whatever. *

It was Jim’s birth­day last week and I knew I needed to do something good.

Some­thing big.

Some­thing delicious.

My birth­day is this week. With our […]

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in the land of noms…

On August 31, 2009 By

Green toma­toes have been tak­ing vegan food blogs by storm. I have to admit, I’d never had them before either. When a friend recent gifted me with a bounty from her gar­den, I decided it was my turn to try my hand at them.

Since clean­ing up my food act in the past few […]

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new nom on the block…

On August 30, 2009 By

Hey there! You may notice a new face on the ban­ner above. Let me into­duce Josaphina Sophia Holechek or, as we call her, Josie.

Yes, she is named after Josie and the Pussy­cats, but the comic that was inter­spersed in the Archie comics of the 1960s, not the car­toon or the silly movie and […]

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Daring Baker’s Challenge = quasifail

On August 27, 2009 By

The August 2009 Dar­ing Bak­ers’ chal­lenge was hosted by Angela of A Spoon­ful of Sugar and Lor­raine of Not Quite Nigella. They chose the spec­tac­u­lar Dobos Torte based on a recipe from Rick Rodgers’ cook­book Kaf­fee­haus: Exquis­ite Desserts from the Clas­sic Caf­fés of Vienna, Budapest, and Prague.

This chal­lenge was a fail […]

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eat this, totino’s!

On August 23, 2009 By

Remem­ber those awful Pizza Rolls com­mer­cials? They may still have them now, I don’t know, but I remem­ber watch­ing them when I was a teen. The young boy, bound­ing home from school with his friends in tow, pon­der­ing what they would have for an after school snack. After perus­ing the kitchen and turn­ing up […]

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book release par-tay!

On August 21, 2009 By

If you pre-ordered through Ama­zon, you should have received a notice yes­ter­day that the books will be ship­ping next week! Yay! If you didn’t pre­order and are inter­ested in buy­ing one, please request one at your local book­seller. If they see a demand, they might keep it in stock!

If you’re in the Port­land area, though, […]

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sad füd

On August 11, 2009 By

So, I heard the good news today that my book has shipped from the print­ers to the dis­tri­b­u­tion ware­house, so it should be only about 2 more weeks. Yay! I’m very excited about this.

Some­times meals, no mat­ter how promis­ing, fall short of your expec­ta­tions. The fol­low­ing post is a les­son in unex­pected food fails.

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jam on parade!

On August 6, 2009 By

Okay, this has been long in the mak­ing, but summer’s been keep­ing me a lit­tle occupied.

So, two things for this post:

1. Jam! I’m made a lit­tle photo tuto­r­ial on how to make jam. I swear, it’s not hard. A lit­tle time con­sum­ing, yes. But once you have your ele­ments pre­pared and ready […]

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