Grow Your Own #10 Reminder

The deadline for May Grow Your Own is tomorrow, so if you posted about some great dishes that you made using your own homegrown produce, dairy products, meats, eggs, whatever, then please join us! You can find the complete details for participating here.

One Day Left on the Give Away!

You still have a chance to win a copy of the fun new book He Said Beer, She Said Wine by Marnie Old and Sam Calagione! The contest runs through tomorrow, Sunday April 27 and entries will close at 6 pm. Just leave a comment at the original post telling us about your favorite beer [...]

Grow Your Own Deadline and Preliminary Garden Plans

I can’t believe the month is almost half gone. Winter has flown by and with Spring just days away I need to get my gardening act together. And speaking of gardening, the deadline for Grow Your Own is March 28. Just send me an email with all the pertinent details (your name, blog name, location, [...]

Vote for Me in the Death by Chocolate Contest!

Culinate is sponsoring a fantastic contest in which two winners, one blogger and one reader, will get a trip for two to Napa Valley to attend the annual Copia Center’s Death by Chocolate Festival on February 23, 2008. In addition, they are giving away some neat daily prizes. If you have a food or beverage [...]

Happy New Year!

Holiday Wishes

We wish you a time of joy with family and friends. ~Andrea, Michael, and the boys

Profile of a Learning Community: The Daring Bakers

Note: I wrote this article in October 2007 and originally published it elsewhere. That site now redirects to this blog and I feel this post really belongs here because of my connection with The Daring Bakers (now the Daring Kitchen). Though it’s not what I typically write about on this blog, I hope you enjoy [...]

Grow Your Own #3 Reminder and Other Announcements

We’re getting rain! When the sprinkles started yesterday morning I tried not to get my hopes up because we’ve been teased by sprinkles for months now. But the downpour started yesterday afternoon and we’ve had a pretty steady rain ever since. Our area is in dire need of a good long soaking! I can’t even [...]

Grow Your Own #2

The first Grow Your Own event brought us some lovely dishes using our homegrown fresh produce, and it’s time for us to start thinking about September’s event. Grow Your Own #2 goes from September 1 – 27, so if you posted something over the weekend using your own homegrown produce, you can still submit it. [...]

Blog Day 2007

It’s Blog Day 2007, and this is my first time to participate. Since Andrea’s Recipes is a cooking blog, I will introduce five food and cooking blogs that I have started reading and enjoying in the last few months. A Year From Oak Cottage and Marie’s Muses, both by Marie in the UK. She lives [...]

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