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September 16, 2005

SHF #12: Cooking Up Custard!

One of the things I really appreciate about food blogging is all of the food blogging events -- they're like fun assignments (and especially good when I need an idea for what to post about!) So, here is my Sugar High Friday #12 creation. An archive of everyone's yummy looking custard entries can be found …

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September 15, 2005

Oh Look! Another House Post: or The Mosaic Project That Ate Portland

So, this first image is kind of weird but it gives a good overhead view of (most of) the whole mosaic. You may remember the upstairs hallway from this post. Well, it's changed a bit, as I started this huge-ass mosaic project over a year ago. This is not surprising, really, as it has already …

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September 14, 2005

The Great Pork Chop Experiment

I think I need an introduction here There, that's better. Yes, I'll talk about my pork chop meal experiment but first, I'll discuss how I got to the point where I wanted to make a pork chop dinner. It was 1995 and I had a hankerin' for meat. Not weird in and of itself, but …

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September 13, 2005

A Fateful & Tasty Tomato Tart

So, I've been reading all these wonderful posts lately about really delicious sounding (and looking) tomato tarts. Hmmm...I started to think, that would be a good way to use some of the tomatoes that keep coming in from the back and front yards. Then, on Saturday morning, I sat down to watch a few episodes …

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September 12, 2005

Chicken Apple Curry

Labor Day weekend, we were walking around the Art in the Pearl Festival, when jwa dragged me into Powell's Technical Books. He found what he was looking for (some kind of book on something or other) and while I was wandering around, I found, of all things -- Caprial's Cafe Favorites, sitting in a small …

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