Last week, at Uptake, I wrote about a visit to The Woodside Store, a historic museum in Woodside, off of King’s Mountain Road. The best part about the visit was that I was able to check out all the cool kitchen gadgets they had way back when. Here is my favorite: Any ideas what this [...]
Little A came home from school wanting to make a cookie, so make a cookie we did. I was looking for something kind of quick, and something with chocolate, and after perusing the pictures in Martha Stewart’s Cookies, we chose: Chocolate Thumbprints from Martha Stewart’s Cookies 1 cup, plus 3 tablespoons, unsalted butter, room temperature [...]
First off, let me start by saying, I am not Catholic. Not sure why I needed to say that, except that I feel that this challenge is only about my relationship with myself. I have used Lent before to kick start some changes I needed to make in my life, and had good success, and [...]
Several weeks ago, I attended a BlogHer event sponsored by Nintendo, introducing the new Personal Trainer Cooking experience. At the party, I actually won two Nintendo DSs, which my children promptly claimed. This weekend I managed to sneak one away to test Personal Trainer Cooking, the giveaway from the party. My initial reaction is that [...]
In December, I won a contest over at This Mama Cooks! On a Diet, and Anne-Marie sent me 5 coupons for free 5.3 ounce containers of the new Stoneyfield Farms Oikos Greek Yogurt. And since I was in the store today redeeming my coupons, I thought I would do a little comparison. The other Greek [...]
Read to the bottom to learn more about the giveaway! William from Eat Smart products contacted me in December about reviewing the recently updated and improved Precision Pro Kitchen Scale. And 2 months later, I am finally getting around to it! I have a scale that I used fairly often for cooking – the difference [...]
A week ago Friday, I attended a BlogHer meet-up in San Francisco, sponsored by Nintendo. In addition to winning two Nintedo DS Lite consoles (for my kids, honest!), I also met and reaquainted myself with several excellent bloggers. And, as promised, here is my roundup: Tricia, a DIYer from Cheeky Attitude, says her most used [...]
In honor of my 100th post (yeah!), I present you with 100 kitchen gadgets I own and use on a regular basis (in no particular order). Some might seem kind of obvious, some I cannot live without, others are merely convenient. What is your “cannot live without” kitchen gadget? Or better yet, what is one [...]
Yesterday, Dear Husband had a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day. In the morning, he dealt with unpleasant managerial tasks. At his lunch meeting, his catered lunch box contained an oatmeal raisin cookie, a cookie so awful in his book that we don’t utter its name in this house. And, to top it all off, [...]
Lucky me! Last week, a piece I wrote for Uptake entitled 7 secrets you might not know about Disneyland, was picked up by Neatorama, and then featured on Yahoo for about 6 hours on Thursday afternoon. Quite exciting – almost like a thrill ride that does not end! And then, on Friday, while at the [...]
Today’s Tuesdays with Dorie challenge was posed by Shari of Whisk: a food blog. And since I had never made Floating Islands (nor tasted them!) I thought this would be a good, educational challenge for me. I could test my recipe reading skills. I could follow directions. It would be good. Alas, my Floating Islands [...]
In November, my mother-in-law helped me buy a new sewing machine, a Husquavarna Viking 850 Quilt, and I spent a couple days in December making super cute (if I do say so myself) handmade kitchen aprons for my friends. I made quite a few aprons, 4 to be exact, here are some close-up pics of [...]
Wanted to be a little lower for a different angle, but loads of construction going on. (Taken with instagram)
