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pumpkin’s in the air…

On October 23, 2009 By

If there is some­thing I love about fall, it’s bak­ing. This sounds pretty obvi­ous, no? But really, it is the OPTIMAL time to bake. The spices are so earthy and deep and it take very lit­tle to make your house smell bet­ter than any stu­pid scented can­dle ever could– and you get to eat the […]

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book winners!

On October 15, 2009 By

Books! I have not for­got­ten, just ter­ri­bly side­tracked this week. Food will return next week, but the win­ners of cookbooks are:

Mo
Vijita
radioac­tiveve­gan

Drop me a line at nomblog at gmail dotty com.

Food, fun and kit­tehs to come!

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cheeze pah

On September 17, 2009 By

*side note: I’ve been selected again to par­tic­i­pate in Foodie Fights! The ingre­di­ents are excel­lent, so be sure to check back on Mon­day to see what I’ve made and to vote!

When you make a cheese­cake in a pie tin you can­not call it a cheese­cake. It must be called a cheesepie. I’m not making […]

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book signing!

On September 13, 2009 By

We had such a great time at the book sign­ing yes­ter­day! I want to thank every­one who came by and for those of you who decide to cash in your free tat­too coupon, please send me a pic­ture! I’d love to see your food body art! I’m con­tem­plat­ing loca­tion of my own food/tribute tat­too… to […]

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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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