When you spend 13-plus years at any one thing (which happens to a lot of us eventually), it’s difficult at best to imagine doing anything different than that. And when you do, the novelty can be so enthralling, you wish that it would never end. Such is the case for me with book promotion. The… Continue Reading
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Congratulations – All-Clad, IceMilk Aprons, and PGG Cookbook Giveaway Winner
A big, huge, ginormous congratulations to Christina in Oregon who (very enthusiastically – in fact, I think we were equally giddy about it) won the All-Clad braiser, the IceMilk Apron, and the signed copy of the Poor Girl Gourmet cookbook. As luck would have it, Christina had already purchased a copy of the cookbook, so… Continue Reading
Poor Girl Gourmet giveaway with All-Clad and IceMilk Aprons
This whole cookbook thing has got me in what is (by comparison to the last year and seven months of blogging, anyway) a giveaway frenzy, and this one is super-special (at least in my mind). To celebrate the delayed, but official release of Poor Girl Gourmet: Eat in Style on a Bare-bones Budget on June… Continue Reading
If Anyone’s Looking for Me
JR and I tend to use that phrase – “if anyone’s looking for me, I’ll be….” followed by some undesirable task: “washing dishes for three hours,” “cleaning the bathroom sink drain of hair,” “swinging the banjo” (the latter is JR-slang for raking leaves). So I’m pleased to announce that for the first time in my… Continue Reading
Hiving Bees: A Pictorial Essay
A pictorial essay with the occasional quip, of course. Those are the hives disassembled in front of our barn (pre-spring cleaning of the yard by the beekeeper – he works his butt off, that beekeeper does). You remember from Monday’s post what a box of bees looks like pre-hive, of course, but I’ll remind you… Continue Reading