Apparently I am living life, well my food blogging life, through rose colored glasses. Or so I was told by one of my now ex-readers(they let me know they were un-bookmarking me). I pissed them off by deleting their negative comment. Why bother commenting if you can't say something nice? If you don't like it, move on. Sadly they have not moved on as I have learned they have gone around to other sites to bash me. Lovely. I think this world is filled with enough people bashing people that a little niceness in the world is a good thing. I have actually had a rash of negative comments in my moderated comment section in the last couple weeks. Sad really. I find the food blogging community to be a positive one usually. If it had not been for people like Ivonne(Cream Puffs in Venice), Lis(La Mia Cucina) and Tanna(My Kitchen in Half Cups) leaving me nice little comments I probably would have stopped blogging by now. And they didn't just encourage me, I see them spreading their food blogging … [Read more...]
Best of 2007
When we were asked by Sandra of Un Tocco di Zenzero and Zorra of Kochtopf to pick our favorite recipe of 2007 I knew exactly the recipe to pick. The Snickerdoodle Muffins which eventually became to be known in the food blogging community as the Refund Muffin(which you can also see here, here and here). Who knew a muffin would cause controversy?:) I still love these muffins for how moist they are with a hint of tang and the sweetness of the crunchy outside. It's still the muffin I make the most. It's still the recipe I get the most emails about how people tried it and loved it...well minus that one person. :P So there you have it. What I feel was my best recipe of the year. If you are a regular reader, would you agree with my pick? … [Read more...]
Nutty gifts…
I'm sure there was some point in your life when you got THAT gift. Not the gift that made you swoon, the one that made you scratch your head. And if you were still young, the one that made you live in fear because you know your mom was going to make you wear it out at least once while that relative was visiting. Now I have had a few of these, but we shall focus on my grandmother's gift to me one year. Glow in the dark earmuffs. Excellent. I am 16 years old and I live in Phoenix Arizona where earmuffs are used all the time. :P And if I wasn't going to look like an idiot enough, they glow in the dark that way if anyone missed me looking like a moron in broad daylight, they still got the chance to make fun of me at night. Some years though you get gifts that make you say YAY. This year I got a pre-Christmas gift from my Mother-In-Law to use in my holiday baking. 10 pounds of gorgeous Georgia pecans. That's right, 10 pounds. Pecans being my favorite of the baking nuts I quickly … [Read more...]
Yule love this challenge…
A few years back now I got a gift. A beautiful box from a local Chocolatier all wrapped in festive wear. I went home secretly hoping they were caramels, only to open them up and find a chocolate Nativity scene...baby Jesus and all. I thought to myself, “What the @#$%? Who on Earth would eat a chocolate baby Jesus?†But apparently they are the biggest seller there around Christmas time. And thus leads me to a phenomenon that I don't quite understand....making food look like something real. I'm in favor of it when the food looks like food, ie a pumpkin cake made into the shape of a pumpkin...makes sense. But when we start making it in to animals, cars, people is where you start to lose me(exception being I love all food shaped like Mickey Mouse...some sort of childhood thing I guess). Which brings me to the Yule Log. Now I will admit that I don't really know the story behind it and I am to busy/lazy to look that up right now. But however it was invented, I'm sure … [Read more...]
