Tomatilla!

The Paper Chef event starts tomorrow! You have until midnight today to get ingredient nominations in. We now have the following from which we will pick three for the event. [Smoked paprika, chorizo, goat cheese, yeast, tamarind, lamb, chipotle en adobo, olive oil, cucumber, potato skins, mustard, sherry vinegar, ground coriander, star anise, chestnut paste, [...]

If you don’t want to get too lost, just click here for the first of a multi-part list of food blogs that I think are worthwhile. Warning: part one is about fifty blogs. The full list is over 200!
Food Blog List Part One

This will be an ongoing and ever-growing list. I have been reading and [...]

Paper Chef Ingredients

[UPDATE - we have had brown sugar and red wine added as suggestions - I have put them in the list below]

The current list is: Smoked paprika, chorizo, goat cheese, yeast, tamarind, lamb, chipotle en adobo, olive oil, cucumber, potato skins, mustard, sherry vinegar, ground coriander, star anise, chestnut paste, egg, almond paste, [...]

I nearly got caught out this time. The Paper Chef is back upon us – at about the same time as EOTMEOTE this time. Since I arbitrarily set the start of the Paper Chef for the first Friday in the month, I looked up at the calendar and lo and behold, less than a week [...]

I am truly disappointed that not one person commented on the delightful headline of my last post. Oh well…I have a LOT of catching up to do. I’m actually further ahead with loading photos (my eternal reminders of what I have done) to my site ready for use in blog posts than I am in [...]

Every year, as I have mentioned before, we have a Valentine’s Day Feast. I really make this for my sweetie, but since we have the two nippers as well, and they have to be fed, they get to participate in what can only be described as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. The photo you are [...]

Now that the book is at the printer (please go take a look and then immediately order lots of copies…) it is time to start thinking about the launch party – and that means thinking about food and drink. For now the drink is most important, the party will be in about five weeks so [...]

In all the novelty of having a guest host for Paper Chef, I completely forgot the winner icon. So here it is:Put all the rest here

It took me a while to puzzle it out, but I think the Paper Chef has been paid a small compliment. I started getting traffic from Blog Appetit so I went to check it out and it was clearly a food blog event of some kind for French bloggers. My French is good enough to [...]

It is hard not to shout! The book that I have been working on for the past seven or eight months is off to the printer and you can go ahead and find out more and finally order a copy!

As many of my regular readers know (especially since many of them are authors in this [...]