Tomatilla!

Well, the Paper Chef is upon us again. Right now we are just in the ingredient nomination phase. The contest will be hosted by Jennifer at The Domestic Goddess this month. It will be judged by Sam at Becks’n’Posh.

You can suggest ingredients until Thursday – either here in comments or at Is My Blog [...]

It’s been a while since I last posted for various reasons. None of which have anything to do with not having anything to write about. I am “this” close to being ready to send the book to the printer. Just need to get the best possible halftone screens of the photos into place. I have [...]

Fridays are a tough day for me to do any blogging. I often cook if we and friends are getting together. As it happens, we were going out with friends for dinner and a movie, but kids were still in need of food and so I made their dessert, an after movie snack and [...]

We have a winner! But to momentarily hold onto the drama, first, we have a second late ‘entry’ from the cooking diva at the Panama Gourmet, Melissa, who wasn’t content with a stunning entry for the official ingredients but also made something with the supplementary ingredients: stale bread, chorizo, broccoli and tamarind. So go take [...]

One last entry. Requia had trouble with her internet provider and wasn’t able to get this up until a ew hours past the deadline. So she gets in with another delicious looking baked entry.

One another note, we have a tough selection this month, so Jennifer has gone into seclusion to make her decision. Results are [...]

In no particular order, here are this month’s entries for the Paper Chef. We ended up with 11 entries from all over the world. As was predicted, many of the entries were desserts, but by no means all and in fact some of the non-dessert entries were amazingly creative. Lots of nice photographs, lots of [...]

Paper Chef February 2005 Edition Is Open!

For February 2005, the final ingredients are:

1)Wheat flour – if you are allergic or have gluten issues then by all means substitute something vaguely similar.
2)Cinnamon – I see a trend forming…..
3)Creme Fraiche – OK – this might be a little specialized. Past experience tells me that sour cream [...]

We have some basics to get through before the event starts at noon PST (it is now 8:21 AM). First, here is the final ingredients list from which we will pick three ingredients in an hour or so…

anchovies, cinnamon, smoked paprika, oranges, wheat flour, chorizo, goat cheese, stale bread, yeast, tamarind, eggplant, lamb, blood oranges [...]

Recently there has been a rash of publicity about food blogs. I won’t tell you all all about it – just go to a few other food blogs and you’ll start seeing signs of it. But why? I don’t know the whole answer, but here I think are some contributing factors:

First, there has been [...]

It is that time of month again. The third edition of the Paper Chef will take place a week from Friday on February 4th through 7th. As we muddle along, trying to find the method that works best for all of us, here is where the current ingredient list stands:

anchovies, cinnamon, smoked paprika, oranges, wheat [...]