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Beginning to explore
17 hours ago by Gillian Polack @ foodpast.com
Today we're starting at the very beginning.Oddly, the first recipes in the new handwritten book (new old book – it gets confusing) are inserts. I'm being very careful to retain the order of them and have them stay where they were put by previous...
Limited Edition Halloween Hershey's Kisses Varieties
Yesterday by Kjersti Wasiak @ limitededitionfoods.com
This 2008 Halloween Season Hershey's Kisses has three different Limited Edition flavors available. The Limited Edition flavors are Candy Corn, Pumpkin Spice, and Candy Apple. Each one comes in bags that have just the one flavor, so you have to...
Dancing Through Your Wine Tasting
Yesterday by Farley @ wineoutlook.com
THIS WEEK’S THEME: DANCING Also, check out the 3 wines on sale at 30% off...Complimentary Tasting2007 Viognier, Kathy’s Cuvee, Appellation Series $18The vivid fruit flavors of peach, apricot, and pineapplewill have you doing the HULA on the...
A thinking day
Yesterday by Gillian Polack @ foodpast.com
I promised recipes. The dateless missing-pieces sort that one only finds in handwritten cookbooks of unknown ancestry. That can wait. First I want to talk about the food history value of my new possession. Somehow I'm in historian mode today...
Baskin Robbins Limited Edition Election Flavors
09/05/2008 by Kjersti Wasiak @ limitededitionfoods.com
Baskin Robbins introduced two Limited Edition flavors a few days ago in honor of the two main candidates for U.S. President in the upcoming 2008 elections. One flavor is supposed to represent McCain and the other represents Obama. There is even a...
Home made cookbook
09/04/2008 by Gillian Polack @ foodpast.com
I have a new book for you. Not the pub book – that's still wherever it managed to hide itself. (It won't hide forever, I promise.) No, my new book is something quite different. In fact, it's neither new nor published: my sister found it for...
Wrap-n-Mat
09/04/2008 by Jackie @ kidsdish.com
My kids aren’t school age and one of them isn’t eating solid foods but that didn’t stop me from buying three Wrap-n-Mats for back to school. The Wrap-n-Mat is a reusable sandwich wrapper. It’s made of cute fabrics lined with food safe...
Limited Edition Perrier Bottles in Malta
09/03/2008 by Kjersti Wasiak @ limitededitionfoods.com
Perrier is a popular bottled water, especially in Europe. This Limited Edition release is in Malta only and is just the bottle decor with the regular sparkling Perrier water inside. There are two different limited edition bottle designs. The...
Prohibition Banquet, Prizes! (thinking ahead to October)
09/03/2008 by Gillian Polack @ foodpast.com
Today is an announcement day, because I haven't had one for far too long and you will start thinking that life is all about excitement and interest. Or ought that to say that you may lose the excitement and interest in life? Hmm. I think I'm...
Cooking with Chicken
09/02/2008 by Shelly @ earthlyeating.com
Sesame Chicken SaladServes: 61 package vermicelli6 tbs. rice wine vinegar1/3 cup light soy sauce1/4 cup olive oil2 tbs. grated fresh ginger (to remove the peel from fresh ginger, scrape the side of the ginger with a spoon. Store in a glass dish in...
Two Very Healthy Salads
09/02/2008 by Shelly @ earthlyeating.com
#1: Tofu and Green Bean Salad with Soy DressingServes: 41 14 to 16 oz. tofu5 tbs. soy sauce2 tbs. Asian sesame oil2 tbs. sake1 tsp. rice vinegar1 tsp. chili paste with garlic2 garlic cloves, minced1 lb. green beans, ends trimmed off1 medium onion...
Mars Candy Products to Support Breast Cancer Research
09/02/2008 by Kjersti Wasiak @ limitededitionfoods.com
Mars candy will be releasing limited edition candies that are pink and they will be donating a minimum of $1 million to Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The pink candies will be available for Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October).One part of the...
Pubs, beer and much merriment
09/02/2008 by Gillian Polack @ foodpast.com
Dear Pub Book, you know you were supposed to be at my desk tonight, so why aren't you where I left you? I can't write about you if you refuse to make an appearance. When you come back, talk to me nicely and I'll think about giving you a spot....
Round Up For Tasting (and Reading) Pleasures
09/02/2008 by Farley @ wineoutlook.com
The fourth round-up post of the Wine Book Club will not be a long one, and for that, I can't help feeling a little guilty. Since, I had to switch blogs midstream and was rather depressed over the circumstances at the time, I didn't promote WBC 4 as...
Oregon Wine and Reading Plans
09/01/2008 by Farley @ wineoutlook.com
We just got off the train from Eugene, Oregon. When we arrived at the Amtrak station last night to check our luggage, I almost had a heart attack when the ticket agent told us we couldn't check our case of painstakingly-chosen Pinot Noir. On the...
World Fairs! Food! ( and an overexited blogger)
09/01/2008 by Gillian Polack @ foodpast.com
Pubs can wait a day, I have found something I forgot to tell you. It's so much fun it can't wait. I should never have forgotten it in the first place.I've given you so many recipes from the Columbian Exposition and introduced you to so many of the...
A touch of drink history (on the rocks)
08/31/2008 by Gillian Polack @ foodpast.com
When I was a child, we did a bunch of driving. Mostly we traveled to look at rocks (my mother was a geology teacher) or other things of scientific interest. We found wild orchids on the Flinders Ranges, and also graptolites. We found rock pools...
Forks and zombies and other important matters
08/30/2008 by Gillian Polack @ foodpast.com
Today is not really a food day for me. This is unusual. I bought food and ate food and even researched food (and have a brand new book to introduce to you) but I just don't feel like talking about it. My mind is dwelling on different matters. If...
Farmer's Market
08/29/2008 by Jackie @ kidsdish.com
Last summer Red Earth Farm's CSA offered locally grown fruits through their buying club each week. In addition to my fruit share I was able to order extra delivered with my share every other week. This summer I am not so lucky. I did not buy a fruit...
Election cakes, 1893 (and 1793)
08/29/2008 by Gillian Polack @ foodpast.com
So much US election going on and here am I having forgotten to give you any election cakes!These election cake recipes are from Favorite Dishes. A Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book. 1893 You've met the book before, but you certainly...
Muller UK Limited Edition Black Cherry and Dark Chocolate Yogurt
08/28/2008 by Kjersti Wasiak @ limitededitionfoods.com
Next month (September 2008) Muller UK is releasing the first in a series of limited edition Fruit Corner yogurt (or yoghurt if you are British) flavor. This is part of their Mix It Your Way campaign they started this month. The Fruit Corner line...
Leek and Swiss Chard tart, only without the leeks and chard
08/28/2008 by Jackie @ kidsdish.com
A recent comment reminded me of my failed, but delicious, leek and swiss chard tart a few months ago. Earlier this week I decided to give it another go and I picked up a box of puff pastry at the store. The next day I went to work. I didn’t have...
Food folklore
08/28/2008 by Gillian Polack @ foodpast.com
When I got sick, a couple of very close friends turned up on my doorstep and demanded to do housework for me. This is not something that usually happens to me – usually I muddle on somehow and just get through. It made the biggest difference to...
Mooncakes
08/27/2008 by Gillian Polack @ foodpast.com
Today you get two posts because I need to assuage my guilt. Would you believe that I fully intended to post yesterday but that I forgot? A friend sent me a book I had been longing to read and I had a big day and I thought "I'll just read a few...
Dr. Pepper Limited Edition Football Cans
08/27/2008 by Kjersti Wasiak @ limitededitionfoods.com
Yesterday at the grocery store I noticed the 12-packs of Dr. Pepper said Limited Edition Football Cans inside. I did not buy any because they were not on sale and I do not even like football, however I do not mind the soda flavor. The cans are...