Over one year later…
It’s time for another vanilla bean purchase!
I just bought one pound of organic Tahitians from eBay for $18, shipping included. This eBay shopping is jolly good stuff!
I plan on giving these out for Christmas this year, mostly stuffed in bottles of bourbon: that magic ju-ju to add to eggnog.
Nice design spotted in Intermezzo Magazine: Vanilla Bean paste in a pump dispenser.
This seems like a great idea for dispensing a thick ingredient that doesn’t dirty up a spoon. Even better is that the product manufacturer, NoMU specifies the pump volume (1 ml) and allows the top to swivel closed to provide an air [...]
It’s amazing, its insane…
and I just know you wish you had a witness to your crazy culinary muttering saying that you would have done this sooner…
cause the evil genius’s at Evil Mad Scientist beat you to it: making wonton wrapper origami cranes. This site provides a step by step show-all, making you feel [...]
Craftster user hercuteness has the cutest entry in a make it small event- a tiny fast food meal of hamburger, fries and a drink. A plastic food tray and food containers were even made!
This has got my creative juices flowing!
Back in July, before leaving for Japan, I wrote a bit about showing Sweet’s co-workers how easy and good homemade rice crispee treats can be. He had reported to me a stunning story about a co-worker buying rice crispee treats from a vending machine… can you imagine? Shaking my head…
Soon after that post, [...]
This last weekend, Sweets and I joined our motorcycle friends out camping under the beautiful starry nights of a clear Oregon sky. We’ve been looking forward to this trip for quite sometime and weren’t going to let a bit of jet lag drag us down! Fortunately, a couple days camping turned out to [...]
Oooooo just had a pint of Prince Pücklers ice cream that was half pistachio almond, and half strawberry.
It was a perfect pairing!
Have you seen my cat butt mug? It’s one of my favorite coffee cups.
As any owner of a black cat knows, they have prominent tushes that they like to show off.
I bought this mug about a year ago at the Sur La Table up in Portland near Powells. Having lived with it for [...]
The online food forum, eGullet recently put forth the postulation that the average cookbook will only have 7 recipes make its way to its owners table. Fondling my newest cookbook, Alice Medrich’s Bittersweet, I can count off three recipes I’ve made in the last two weeks, and I can easily think of four more [...]
You know what’s cool about receiving PR when you have a food blog? They usually follow up with yummy stuff!
I was contacted by the company Sweetriot and given a sample pack of their chocolate covered cocoa nibs. Fun to play with and nibble on, the nibs come in a variety of chocolates (50%, [...]
