I’m very excited to be up for a Blogger’s Choice Award this year! It’s definitely an honor to be considered, and even more of an honor to see the votes continue to roll in. Wasabimon has been nominated for two different awards, Best Food Blog and Best Blog Design. If you like what you see and read here, I’d really appreciate it if you would go over to the site and vote for the blog.
Summer is a time of peaches, nectarines, blueberries, raspberries, pineapples, herbs, legumes, you name it. I want them all, constantly. I’m not the only one, either – there’s a whole world of food bloggers out there who are participating in Summer Fest, a summertime food blogging event.
Today’s my birthday! I’m not saying how old I am, but I did want to say that over the past few weeks I’ve been slowly collecting birthday gifts that will up the ante of my food photography on Wasabimon. I’ve actually got years of photo training (in the traditional film world, that is), but you [...]
My spice cabinet is out of control! What started as a corner of a cupboard has grown to ridiculous proportions, with spices taking over two shelves and overflowing onto the counter. They’re a major PITA to search through. Do any of you with unwieldy spice collections have a solution? I’ve researched spice rack ideas, but [...]
There’s only one part of the year that I love more than green garlic season, and that’s stone fruit season. Peaches, nectarines, plums, pluots, apriums – they all cause me to shiver deep down inside as their sweet juices play over my tongue, waking tastebuds that lay dormant from September to June. Peach Fuzz Love [...]
One night last week I made the huge mistake of putting wine in my cast iron skillet. Now, I’m not cookware-ninny… I know my stuff pretty well. And the entire time that I was lifting the wine bottle from my counter, removing the cork, and pouring Sauvignon Blanc into the pan, this little voice in [...]
I ran across this on a forum I’m on, and decided to make something similar for my family this Easter: Creative Holiday Gift Ideas: EASTER BUNNY S’MORES.
I have a little thing for Easter cupcakes. Sure I can’t eat them (meh!) but I can still appreciate the artful overdose of cute, can’t I? Here are a few of the best Easter cupcakes I’ve seen so far: And then this was just cool: How can your resist Easter cupcakes??
For the past few months I’ve spent a lot of time mulling over making major changes to the front and back end of Wasabimon. There are lots of things I want to do, but as anyone in the blogosphere knows all too well, making changes in an already operational blog requires finesse. In the upcoming [...]
I do a lot of food writing these days, but I spend a lot of my time writing for a great website called LoveToKnow. I thought that I should link some of my articles here, since they run the gamut from cooking to diet and nutrition. If you like them, please forward them on to [...]
Today I was surfing around Amazon and I ran across these decals for the KitchenAid mixer. I love my KitchenAid mixer, and I’ve always wanted to have it custom painted by my husband, who’s a brilliant artist. Unfortunately, he’s not even remotely motivated to paint my mixer. Meh. (HINT BIRTHDAY GIFT HINT) So, I guess [...]
The only thing that can make a garlic mashed potatoes recipe better is rosemary. Oh, and bacon (because doesn’t bacon turn everything up to eleven?). I love bacon. For health reasons I try not to eat it often, but occasionally I’ll make a recipe that requires bacon and I’ll find half a pound of the [...]
Happy Monday everyone! Today’s the day I select the winner of the J.A. Henckels Santoku Knife Giveaway. I received many responses, and for that I’m very thankful. I wish I could pick more than one winner, but this may be my motivation to host another giveaway in a few months. Without further ado, the winner [...]
It’s time for a contest: welcome to the J.A. Henckels Santoku Knife Giveaway! To ring in the new year properly (that is, to share something with you, my readers), I’m having a web raffle. The prize is a two piece J.A. Henckels hollow-edge santoku knife set, which includes both a 7″ and 5″ knife. These [...]
Hopefully you had a good evening despite your choice of imbibements, and that you rang in 2009 with a bang. This year will be magical and see your dreams come true. Don’t believe me? See for yourself.
These hangover cures will help salvage your morning after. No matter how great that party was last night, there’s no reason to feel like arse the next day.
Merry Christmas, everyone! Since I’m busy celebrating this week, I thought I would post a few inspiring holiday desserts. I hope your holiday season has been joyful, and that the new year bring you lots of wonderful things. Mazel tov! (Photo credit) (Photo credit) (Photo credit) (Photo credit) (Photo credit)
Today’s guest post comes from travel writer Melanie McMinn. Melanie runs FrugalKiwi, a blog dedicated to extreme travel in New Zealand for women of all sizes. Her site is awesome on all fronts… I mean how much respect do I have for a woman who jumps out of a plane and crawls on her belly [...]
I find a lot of tantalizing food photos during my daily internet exploits, and I’ve finally decided to keep track of them. I’ve created a new Tumblr blog specifically for logging the most dizzying food porn that I come across. Check it out: MegaNom blog on Tumblr Here’s the MegaNom RSS Feed if you want [...]
Again it’s not food related, but I wrote another post over the the Writer’s Technology Companion about making the most of the RSS link on your blog. Check it out here and leave a comment to say what you think!
I know this isn’t food related, but I thought I’d give myself a quick plug since, you know, this is MY blog. Heh. I wrote a few guest posts over at Dustin Wax’s writing blog, The Writer’s Technology Companion. My first post is about adding printing functionality to WordPress blogs, and I’ll post about the [...]
Have you ever had cashew nut butter dates? Or dates with any other kind of nut butter? If not, you’re missing out. It’s no secret: I like to eat. A lot. But in my case I have to eat frequently, lest I get lightheaded, start talking gibberish, and have a panic attack. When you’re concerned [...]
While wasting time on the internet, I ran across some desserts that made me want to get out my baking equipment and fill my digestive system with pound after pound of refined sugar. I probably won’t do it for real, but I will share what I found. Follow the links for instructions on how to [...]
Have you ever tried to print a blog post and ended up with miles of useless crap and extra pages, only to have the actual content you want to print out completely disappear from the printed copy? Well fret no more, dear readers. Thanks to Dustin Wax over at The Writer’s Technology Companion, Wasabimon now [...]
Michael Ruhlman made a post about cast iron pans today, and after reading it, I feel like I should extol the virtues of my own heavy black workhorse. My cast iron pan has been abused (by me, in my less-savvy days) and then reincarnated for a second chance at life. Over the past seven years [...]
The title of this post is loosely pilfered from the name of Heidi Swanson’s 101 Cookbooks blog. Why, do you ask? Well, to put it bluntly, I have a metric f**k-ton of cookbooks. I have cookbooks on shelves, cookbooks in boxes, cookbooks in cupboards. There are cookbooks on my nightstand, on the coffee table, and [...]
Yesterday was my birthday, and in addition to the outpouring of love I received from my friends and family, I was gifted with a few really awesome kitchen accouterments. Check them out!
I’ve run across many excellent videos via YouTube and Google Video, and they’ve played a large role in helping me not get my work done. So that you can all procrastinate too, here are a few of the ones I really liked. The Post Punk Kitchen Isa and Terry mix it up punk vegan style. [...]
If you want to learn to grow your own lemongrass plants, it’s super easy with these directions. You can even use lemongrass stalks from the grocery store.
I’ve finally set up my blog roll, over on the right column. >> Go there to check out the blogs that I find inspiring and read on a daily basis. I’d like to upgrade the web resource section, but that will have to happen at a later date (like, say, after finals). I’m still tinkering [...]
My birthday’s coming up. And what do I want? Well, besides a billion cookbooks, there are a few recipes I’m particularly in need of: – gluten free/dairy free cinnamon rolls – a gluten free/dairy free red velvet cake – gluten free/dairy free english muffins I’d be stoked to find these recipes even if they involved [...]
Oh leeks, how do I adore thee? Let me count the ways… In potato leek soup (duh) Anytime I want a delicate onion flavor that won’t overpower other ingredients Sliced, battered, and fried like mini onion rings Sauteed with garlic in olive oil and slathered over a burger (veggie or otherwise) Saving the tougher green [...]
