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15 Jan 2010 San Francisco: The Last Day

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This post is mostly pictures, as the last day of the Foodbuzz Blogger Festival consisted of a brunch and then we were left to explore the beautiful city on our own.
San Francisco inside…

23 Dec 2009 Cookies! Mexican Wedding Cookies and Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies

Things have been so crazy around here, that we haven’t had time to do our last two posts of the San Francisco trip, but they will be coming soon!

Until then, the holiday spirit suddenly whisked me away this morning, and I decided to make a run to the overcrowded grocery store to make my favorite cookies.

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11 Nov 2009 San Francisco: Friday
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Oysters at the Blue Mermaid Chowder House.

I feel like I am so far behind, everyone is posting their great updates on the past weekend with the 1st Annual Foodbuzz Blogger Festival (like Oldways Table ,High/Low Food/Drink, A Little Bit of Spain in Iowa and a gazillion more… ), and I have only made it through Friday, and not even to the actual event, only the things Peter and I did before it. So I figured I would start there.

This for me was a weekend where i would again open up myself to the food world. Before I met Peter, I was a basic meat and potatoes girl with a few other exceptions. After Peter, I started trying things instantly. I would have him order my meals when we went out, surprising me with so many new and wonderful foods. Now that I have broaden my food horizon considerably, I have fallen back into the routine of not trying anything because ‘I don’t like it’ when really, I hadn’t tried it since my tastes have changed. So I decided that this blogger fest I would be open to try anything and everything (within reason, insects and organ meats would have to wait). Even simple things like raw tomatoes, which I have never liked. I apparently do now. Go figure. :)

This post and the few after it will have an enormous amount of photographs as I have a hard time limiting myself when it comes to new places, foods, and people.

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25 Oct 2009 Welcome to the blog world, The Sugar Pixie!

Our close friend, Krissy, has (finally ;) ) started her own blog, The Sugar Pixie, and you should definitely go check it out! She is the genius behind some of our sweet dessert posts lately, like the awesome strawberry cupcakes and the amazing key lime pie.

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22 Aug 2009 Happy Birthday to my Wonderful Husband!
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I took this picture of Peter yesterday for the POM folks, and I really liked it AND today is his birthday! :D

Love Christey ;)

09 Mar 2009 Bangers and Mash Americanized

This meal and post was inspired by an online community I read called Trashy Eats. It is well know that I, Christey, am not the cook that Peter is, nor have the interest in doing the crazy French sauces that he wants to perfect. I used to, but he is so good at it, I will let him do it and I will eat it.

I do know how to cook, as much as I let on that I don’t. Not crazy fancy stuff, but a lot of basic things. A long time ago, though, I did not. I knew some very very basic things to do with stuff that got me by when I could not stop at a fast food joint, or convince some one to make me something. The good thing, is my palate was that basic as well, cheese (Velveeta and American only), bacon, steak, mac and cheese (only the kind in the box and then, only Kraft) and potatoes. Oh! And creamed corn out of the can.

My dad’s mother, Mildred, used to make this for me all the time when I was a child and visiting her for the summer. My mom later told me exactly what it was (as I was not paying much attention, and could care less) and from that point on, I would make it all the time.

I made this once when I had first met Peter, he laughed at my silly little lunch and said ‘That’s Bangers and Mash… sorta’ I instantly felt fancy with a fancy name for my own lil’ trashy eats.

Peter is at my mother’s this evening, trying to fix her water well so she can have water again and not have to stay at our house again. (Not that we don’t like her to stay here, really! It just seems such a pain in the bottom for her to lug her stuff and annoying pleasant dog over here.) We were going to shoot Peter making his March pomegranate recipe tonight, but by the time he fixes her water and drives back home, I would be so starving that I might have already chewed my arms off.  We don’t want that. So I was on my own tonight. That brings me to this:

Trashilicious

24 Feb 2009 Imbibe Magazine
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I checked the mail today and in it was March/April’s Imbibe Magazine. Imbibe Magazine is one of the nation’s top drink magazine. They contacted us about a month or so ago about being in one of their articles on coffee. They liked the Honey-Espresso Glazed Scallops as well as our Coffee themed Christmas Dinner, and wanted to put my pictures and Peter’s recipe in the magazine.

I had completely forgotten all about it until yesterday, when I asked Peter if he had heard anything on it. He hadn’t, but today it came in the mail!

The picture/recipe they chose was the Honey-Espresso Glazed Scallops and with it they even mention that it was part of LeftOver Queen’s Royal Foodie Joust.

Mentioned online at the bottom under Recipes, Cravings.

-Christey

13 Feb 2009 Twilight Zone Birthday Cake
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My son, Andy, turns 12 today. On Friday the 13th, which I think is cool. My mother, however, was so upset the day I had him because I had him Thursday, February 13th. “He’s going to have his first birthday on a Friday the 13th!”. I really liked that idea, but I have always liked 13. So there ya go ;)

Over the New Year’s I recorded on the DVR a ton of Twilight Zones from the 60’s. Andy was curious about the series because we got in a long discussion about the series back in October when we ran the Disney Tower of Terror 13K (The Tower of Terror ride at Hollywood Studios is themed around the TV series ‘The Twilight Zone’). So for the past few weeks he has been watching a few episodes here and there and declared that he wanted a Twilight Zone themed birthday party. This made me very happy, as I love the show, but really wasn’t sure how I was going to do a cake with that theme. I knew that it must have an airplane with a monster on it though because his most favorite episode (and the one that scares him the most, but he still watches it over and over and over again) is ‘Nightmare at 20000 Feet’, the one with William Shatner in his screen debut, imagining that there is a monster on the wing of the plane destroying it.

Well, this is what I ended up with, and he loved it completely, which of course make me a very happy mommy :) (I would like to add, I am not a cake decorator in the least, and don’t really know the secrets, so please forgive the obvious mess-ups)

03 Feb 2009 Foodie Weekend!!!

Two weeks ago we had some wonderful visitors come to town, Jenn and Roberto of The Left Over Queen food blog. We met them a few months back when we had a Foodbuzz sponsored dinner at Blue Zoo and the four of us connected really well and made plans to visit each other soon.

They are from St. Augustine, which is right up the road a bit, so they came down for the weekend. As soon as they arrived, which happened to be lunch time, we went up the road to our quaint downtown area and ate at Matt’s Casbah (a landmark location, that had closed and was taken over and redone by another landmark local chef)

Much more food and friends back here

04 Dec 2008 Thanksgiving

Wow! We have been crazy busy and out of town. But we are now back for at least a good two weeks :)

In lieu of a real post, I am going to post pictures of our Thanksgiving feast, mainly because it was amazing. Our Thanksgiving consisted of 4 families who all contributed to the feast. Peter was in charge of the seafood dish. He decided to make his wonderful lobster bisque, which is very much like his crab bisque, with the obvious difference of lobster instead of crab.

Duck and Turkey and Green Beans, Oh MY!