Greetings, all (four of you)! I wanted to let you in on a few things I’m kicking around for future posts. As always, feedback and suggestions are always appreciated…
- First, I’ll be cooking the spaghetti and meatballs from the January cover of Bon Appétit this week, and posting about it on Monday night, January 11. I’m really excited about comparing notes with those of you who are joining me!
- The 18th will be a light-hearted homage to the great Martin Luther King, Jr. How will I tie in the food element, you ask? Tune in and find out.
- The 25th is open, but I’m thinking homemade pizza dough. My buddy Ryan just hauled his brand-new Kitchen-Aid back to Texas A&M, and if I’d had a Kitchen-Aid in college (!!), I like to think I would have been making pizza.
- On February 1st, we’ll be talking football food, in preparation for the SuperBowl.
- On February 8th, we’ll tackle Valentine’s Day… specifically, “How To Impress a Date – Part II”.
Thoughts?
On the technical side, which I know next to nothing about, I’m working on adding a “thingy” to the sidebar that will allow folks to receive an email every time WFI is updated, as well as another “thingy” in the comment module that will allow you to make corrections to your own comments after you submit them.
And finally, WFI has a new friend that I absolutely must tell you about. Her name is Shirley, and she’s undertaking a project to compile, test, and publish her mother’s recipes in a cookbook, in time to give it as a 2010 Christmas gift. Pretty cool, right? She’s blogging about it here: www.amotherscookbook.blogspot.com. This is something I’ve been thinking about doing with my own mother’s recipe collection, so I’m interested to follow along and see how it goes. Check it out when you have a second!
#1 by Abby Davenport on January 7, 2010 - 12:27 pm
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I like the idea of the “thingy” side bar! I get behind, and as I am catching up, I read something that would have been helpful yesterday!
Luckily I caught the casual entertaining today, because that is what I am doing tomorrow. I have already failed #4 when I went to the store for the 5th time this week just an hour ago.
#2 by Laura on January 8, 2010 - 9:15 pm
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Good luck with the entertaining, Abby! #4 is tough – I’m just now making headway on that one. Same for #3. My friends made me adopt #2. I’m giving serious thought to #13. And #’s 9 and 10, for me, are no-brainers!
(Just to be clear, we’re referring to this post, not the one above.)
#3 by Shirley on January 8, 2010 - 10:56 am
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Wow! Thanks so much for the post about my project! I’m so excited (and a little nervous since I’m new to this whole blogging “thingy”) and plan to test some recipes this weekend, so will have new posts and photos shortly. It’s going to be a long process but I so appreciate the support. More to come…and can’t wait to hear how those meatballs turn out. I read the recipe the other night; you are more brave than I!
#4 by Laura on January 8, 2010 - 8:59 pm
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Girl, I’ve only been doing it a couple of months. Everyone is new to this whole blogging thingy! ;)
#5 by claire on January 8, 2010 - 11:32 am
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Yay! When food blogs collide!
Can’t wait to read more from both of you…do I sense an Iron Chef match up?
Shirley vs. Laura???!
#6 by Laura on January 8, 2010 - 9:00 pm
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I would soooo suck at Iron Chef. Unless the secret ingredient is shark head, in which case I might have a shot.
#7 by Shirley on January 10, 2010 - 10:49 pm
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Unless there was a 2-year-old pulling on me through the entire competition, I would feel no sense of urgency and would lose for sure.
#8 by Jamie on January 14, 2010 - 3:54 pm
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Here is my 2 cents…and yes, I signed up to get the emails!!!! I would LOVE to hear about pizza dough. I’m always trying to find a good, healthy option for our family. I tried a whole wheat dough and it was SO dense and heavy. I remember you working on this and would love to hear (read i guess) a discussion. I also have a funny, kinda cute Valentine story about the first V’day with my DH. He cooked for me.