Tomatilla!

We now have a few more ingredients and tomorrow is the last day to get ingredient nominations in. Here’s the current list…

Eggs, Vinegar, Sun-dried tomatoes, black fermented soy beans, Giblets,Peanut butter, Apple cider, Daikon, Blueberries, Cantaloupe, Crab,Pork, Something you or a friend grew, White wine, Sour cream, Cheddar,Mushroom, Ramen Noodles, Edible flowers, Vermouth, soda pop [...]

It is that time of the month again! Nominations for ingredients for the next Paper Chef are now open. As usual, one nomination per person and nominations should be at least arguably in good taste (both kinds).

To nominate, make your nomination in the comments below or email it to me. I will update the list [...]

As promised, here is the first of several quick Paper Chef retrospectives.

The very first Paper Chef was way back in 2004 – December 2004, but 2004 all the same. The first set of ingredients was:

Cilantro, Ginger, Almonds and Winter squash. I have lost comments from that time since I used an external commenting system but [...]

Since it has been four years since I started Tomatilla! and it has even been three years since I started writing in earnest, here’s a quick look back presented in several stages. The first post was on July 16th, 2002 and was about one of my favorite topics: roast chicken.

Then nothing happens until the [...]

Now that I have managed to crowbar a tiny smidgen of time free for Tomatilla! again, I thought I’d try to make sure I got some of my little list of projects done by setting them down here as plans and then maybe I’ll manage to do them.

First and foremost, the next Paper Chef [...]

Stephen completed his talk in record time and the new Paper Chef #20 winner is announced!

Although we have two official categories (and as many other categories as the judge wants to assign), in fact only one entrant nominated themsleves in a category so that part didn’t work out. We’ll try again next time. Paper Chef [...]

Although the tunrout was a little low – thanks undoubtedly to my recent lack of attention – the quality was as usual really, really high.

Before I go any further, I really, really need to thank Kevin who not only kept Paper Chef going but did it with panache and flair. Everyone who reads this needs [...]

So far I have four entries – that’s a tad low, so I am hoping there are a few shy people out there or a few stragglers to round out and up the numbers. Let me know! email to owenl1998 at yahoo dot com or comment here.

One of the things I love about food blogging is the creativity and fun that shines through. I mean what other online or blogging group has as much fun as the food blogging community does with EotMEoTE? For my own contribution, see this little parody.

But it doesn’t stop or even begin there. Two examples of [...]

The final ingredient list was:

Coffee, A spiky plant like cactus (nopales!) or nettles, Guava, Dragon Fruit, Turmeric, Andouille sausage, Berries, Eggs, Cherries, Vinegar, Sun-dried tomatoes, black fermented soy beans, Giblets, Peanut butter, Apple cider, Daikon, Blueberries, Cantaloupe, Crab, Pork, Something you or a friend grew, White wine, Sour cream, Peaches, Cheddar, Mushroom, Ramen Noodles, A [...]