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Saturday, February 2, 2008

groundhog day

making chicken stock

All week, Alex has been sick with a cough, cold and scary-high fever, so it should be little surprise that I am now, too. What a sorry sight we are! Somewhere in the marriage contract should be a requirement that only one of us is sick at a time, or who will wait on us hand and foot? Anyone? Hello? [Radio silence.] Germophobes.

Nevertheless, this is a great time to catch up on some housekeeping, especially because I can do it from the sofa while Martha shows some beefy guys how to make brats-in-blankets–beefy guys, bratwurst… I’m starting to feel better already!

ganache

Death By Chocolate: Remember that Napa trip you sent us on last summer? Well, the good folks at Culinate are at it again and this time they want to send one food blogger and one reader on a trip for two to Napa Valley to attend the Copia Center’s annual Death by Chocolate Festival on Feburary 23, 2008 for a day of chocolate and wine tasting, demonstrations by pastry chefs and other sessions with chocolate junkies like yourself.

napa wine grapes

Having spent a few days at Copia, let me tell you, this trip will rock your face off. That place is stunning and the people who work there are some of the kindest I have met. The winning reader will be chosen at random. To enter as a food blogger, submit a recipe you feel fits the Death By Chocolate theme before February 8 on Culinate’s web site. The winning entry will be chosen by a panel of judges including yours truly, and yes I can be plied with bribes flattering remarks about my hair er, I mean, chicken noodle soup. [Edited to add: Thanks to all who have nominated smittenkitchen.com–we are very flattered, seeing as we won last year and are judging this year, we’re not running.]

Adopt-a-Blogger: I bet you didn’t know this, we’ve just adopted someone–our very first food blogger! For real. Her name is The Gastronomist and, just like someone else we may know, she loves to obsessively photograph everything she cooks. She’s got some recipes on her site I am just itching to try, from this Shiitake Lemongrass Miso soup, Chicken Marsala with Fresh Fettucini and, most pertinent for our current condition, Matzo Ball Soup. Yes, please! Head on over and say hi.

two things to scoop


Oh, and That Game Thing: I hear there’s some, like, big game this weekend? Here are some things I’d love to serve, uh, if I were getting off the sofa this weekend:

Go Giants!

In closing, presented without comment: Groundhog Stew.

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