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Thanks for all your well wishes for the Foodbuzz Food Blogger Contest!  I went to Food Buzz to see my competition, and it will be a miracle if I make it to the next round.  Voting begins on Monday so I’ll be sure to let you know then how to vote – thanks! I have Allison to thank for introducing me to the savory oats...

I interrupt my normal posts of egg sammies, spicy soups, fried chicken and my love of Tabasco, to announce that I’ve thrown my hat into the ring for Foodbuzz’s Project Food Blog! Over 1800 fellow foodies are going to vie for the chance to be crowned Best Food Blog! I’ve always loved to eat.  Luckily growing up, since I was in so many sports, it didn’t...

I stayed up too late last night watching the season premiere of Oprah’s last season.  I have a love/hate thing with her – while I think she does some beneficial things for the community, not only in Chicago but around the world, her ego is about the size of North America. Every time I see her magazine with her picture on the cover, I kind...

After our 3 mile charity walk yesterday, we went out to breakfast.  I figured I worked off enough calories to indulge in one of my guilty breakfast pleasures:  corned beef hash! On a “The best think I ever ate” on FoodTV, Michael Symon had a guacamole that had blue cheese, sage and bacon in it.  While mine didn’t look a lot like the one he...

It’s hard to believe it was nine years ago already.  At the time I worked in Chicago, at a law firm on Michigan Avenue about 3 blocks from the John Hancock building.  Living out in the “sticks” my commute was a long one.  I took the 7:15 train that got me downtown at 8:25, and then I had to either walk for 20 minutes, take...

Wow, thanks to everyone who donated for our Altzheimer’s charity walk on Sunday!  My goal was to raise $100, and I raised $175 $185 $200 $225 $230 so far!   Thanks to these wonderful people – if you haven’t checked out their blogs yet, you need to! Helen of Doing a 180 (love her honesty in her posts) Pubsgal (another diabetic foodie friend!) Helen – Dog...

More than a month ago my neighbor asked me and Hannah to participate in this years local Memory Walk to raise money for Altzheimer Disease.  We jumped at the chance to join them!  But guess what?  The walk is on Sunday!  I hoped to raise $100 for the cause, so here is where I need your help. If you donate just $5 dollars, I’ll send...

I had such a non-Biz breakfast yesterday.  Remember the Carb V bagels I had that have 19 grams of fiber each?  I had the cinnamon raisin version with just a schmear of reduced sugar peanut butter.  On the side I had some Greek yogurt with fresh diced pears and a heaping tablespoon of Nature’s Path Pumpkin flax seed granola. By the time I ate the...

Thanks for all your wonderful comments to my two year blogaversary!  Without further ado, the winner is my giveaway is . . . True Random Number Generator Min: 1   Max: 72   Result: 56 katecooks says: September 4, 2010 at 3:47 pm (Edit) congrats! two years, wow. i’ve loved reading daily. you amaze me with all your delicious recipes and weekly menus!! the no-rise pizza...

What an absolutely gorgeous day we had yesterday, and today is shaping up to be exactly the same!  I think our high yesterday was around 65 degrees and blue skies.  Fall has always been my favorite season – maybe because I looked forward to my field hockey season? I was up early, so got my exercise out of the way.  I ended up doing a...