From the monthly archives:

February 2008

The Art of Procrastination

February 24, 2008

 
I am not a procrastinator on all things, but there are some things that I procrastinate with until the last minute. Writing my freelance articles is one. It seems like my best written articles come to me when I have waited until the very last minute to write them. I do my best work with [...]

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Dine and Whine

February 20, 2008

 
You all are probably starting to think that I should change my blog name to Dine and Whine instead of Dine and Dish, aren’t you? Have I been crabby the past couple of posts or what? Sorry to bring you all down, but thank you for pulling me back up. The comments on my last [...]

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Circumstances

February 17, 2008

 
I am a person bounded to my life by circumstances. I was born and raised in a small Kansas town. Altamont, KS was a town of 1,000 people and it really was a great place to grow up. It is the kind of place where, as a kid, we could walk the streets past dark, [...]

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Rachael Ray 365 No Repeats

February 15, 2008

Have you ever purchased a cookbook that you absolutely had to have
right that very minute? Nothing at all could sway you from not buying
it. I do that with cooking magazines all the time, but rarely is it
that a cookbook catches my attention so much that I buy it immediately
without running home to read the reviews [...]

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I Forgot to Make the Doughnuts!

February 13, 2008

 
Dates sneak up on me these days. Is it because time is just flying by too fast or is it that I have really become that unorganized? Either way, I think I’ll lean towards the first excuse. Life is zooming by at lightening speed!
Two of my favorite food bloggers, Peabody and Tartlette are hosting [...]

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A Chocolate Dipping Adventure

February 12, 2008

I was contacted by Hotel Chocolat a couple of weeks ago asking if I would be interested in reviewing one of their chocolate products. (Again, new bloggers…one more reason to have a place for your readers to contact you on your blog!) You may have remembered a post last week telling you how one of [...]

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The Fertilizer of Life

February 2, 2008

 

Vote for me in the Death by Chocolate contest

 
I had the opportunity to go to a half day retreat at our church this past weekend. Sister Charlotte White was the retreat leader and the retreat was entitled "Stardust and Pig Wallows." This retreat came at such a good time for me. I was feeling slightly [...]

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