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The February 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Aparna of My Diverse Kitchen and Deeba of Passionate About Baking. They chose Tiramisu as the challenge for the month. Their challenge recipe is based on recipes from The Washington Post, Cordon Bleu at Home and Baking Obsession. Here is the recipe if you would like it.
Here is the [...]

The 2010 February Daring Cooks challenge was hosted by Michele of Veggie Num Nums. Michele chose to challenge everyone to make mezze based on various recipes from Claudia Roden, Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Dugid. If you would like the recipes you can find them here.
I’m just warning you this will be a picture heavy post….(here is the full [...]

Current Mood: HappyFirst off let me apologize for the signs of construction here. My old theme wasn’t really working well with the new version of wordpress so I’m in the process of searching out a theme to modify. I’m fairly pleased with this one beyond some of the color choices so we’ll see. I am [...]

The January 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Lauren of Celiac Teen. Lauren chose Gluten-Free Graham Wafers and Nanaimo Bars as the challenge for the month. The sources she based her recipe on are 101 Cookbooks and www.nanaimo.ca
So for the first month of belonging to the Daring Bakers, this was my challenge.  Interestingly enough I actually [...]

So I’ve been a wee bit stressed lately, and when I’m stressed I cook. My mom can’t eat when she’s upset and I have the opposite problem. Also since Justin was gone for so long I went into cooking for one mode which is sear a meat and make a veg. Not really interesting at [...]

I know I know I should have gotten this done on or around January first right? However….my birthday is January fifteenth so I sort of wait till that date rolls around to start any diets, resolutions or reflecting. So the year in review….last year was weird. It was a really hard year. Justin was gone [...]

I’m not sure I mentioned it but….I started a clap sometime after Christmas. My mom ganked my old one and it was looking a bit ratty anyway so I didn’t fight her too hard for it. I had decided to go with Dream in color’s gothic rose for yarn because *cough* well if you knew [...]

Well now it sure has been a long time.  After my last post I went into packing and cleaning mode so I was pretty busy. Then we moved into the new house. I love the house. I’m still working on it and in fact I’ve rearranged since I took those photos.

However I’m going to wait [...]

Pattern: Scrunchable Scarf from the Knit List (Rav Link)
Yarn: Malabrigo in Velvet Grapes (2 hanks)
Needles: KP 8’s
Size: 62″ long, Although I did add a few repeats to make it wider.
Pattern Notes: This was supposed to be KIP at knit night knitting. Eventually the stress of the house made it my only active knitting. It’s [...]