Tomatilla!

I’m reposting the Menu for Hope entry I made a week or two ago since we have only two days left in this drive to raise money. We have already raised well over $10,000 – a great reponse in this season of giving and hope. Now, in the last two days we are hoping to [...]

My new employer just had its Christmas party and one of the events was an eggnog-off. Participants had to bring in eggnog (preferably but not necessarily alcoholic). So of course I had to take part even though I’m not really a big fan of eggnog. The only eggnog I’ve had that I liked was my [...]

The results are in. And I think this is the longest roundup and the most contentious judging effort ever. And the largest number of prizes awarded! So go check it all out!

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I’m hurt that not one of you so far has elected to receive a copy of Digital Dish in the raffle. Does that mean you are all cheapskates who won’t donate or is it that you prpefer the really good prizes like actual food and actual dinners and even a real live lamb? Whatever [...]

First, don’t forget to donate….for the Menu For Hope…

For those looking for Paper Chef Updates. There is a knockdown, drag-out battle raging between the judges (which I think means they had a tie on a couple of categories and have to reconvene) and they have not yet rendered their verdicts. I believe the place to [...]

About a year ago several food bloggers banded together to create A Menu For Hope to provide some support for victims of the tsunami in South East Asia. This year many, many more of us are getting together to raise money to support UNICEF’s relief efforts in Northern India, Pakistan and Afghanistan after the devastating [...]

Every now and then I mention my littel vegetable garden strip out back near the pool beneath the cherry tree and shadowed by the neighbour’s Beech. One of the reasons this blog is called Tomatilla! is because the tomatillas love this little strip of land. I no longer plant them any more they self seed/sow [...]

Since all our judges this time around (and we have a PANEL) are Australian, many of our readers took Australia to heart and combined their entries with some kind of Australian touch. In Alanna’s case she delved into memories of lullabies and family and came up with the jolly swagman perched beside the billabong, so [...]

It is time for the grand roundup of Paper Chef Entries. This is the most fun part for me. I get to write nice little summaries where I hope to pique the reader’s interest enough to go check each and every entry out for themself. I get to read about fantastic, inventive, funny, serious, casual, [...]

Hah! Here you all are awaiting the roundup and instead you get yet another entrant. In this case, an intrepid newcomer emailed me his entry bang on time (early Sunday evening) and I didn’t notice until just now that he doesn’t have a blog!

He does, however, have something almost as good – a very nice [...]