The happiest recent news in Gastroblogia is that Owen of Tomatilla has revived Paper Chef after a six-month hiatus. Paper Chef was our introduction to the food blogging world, and it’s always been Chopper’s favorite event. He loves the excuse to play.

For this episode, Paper Chef #25, the four ingredients are:
Smoked Swordfish (or [...]

This dish was served on Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 at 2:37 pm and is filed under chopper's lab, culinary insanity, in the garden, paper chef. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

See that tomato? It’s our one and only tomato. Oh, we’ll have more later (with some 12 tomato plants in the yard, we’d better!) but right now, this is it. Our August bounty.
Hey! I think we just saved fifty cents on our grocery bill!
We really do have a great yard [...]

This dish was served on Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 at 1:10 pm and is filed under in the garden. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Sometimes, you’ve got to just jump back into the water, even if you can’t find your swimsuit.
No, I’m not naked.1 More likely, I’m wearing an ancient t-shirt from a show I’ve no recollection of doing, and sweats covered in house paint. It’s been that sort of past few months.2
But, even if [...]

This dish was served on Sunday, July 1st, 2007 at 6:13 pm and is filed under crafty, in the garden, one local summer. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

It was the event that almost wasn’t. The event that re-emerged from the abyss, from the long lost annals of Gastroblogian history, stifled by photographic traumas, by the death cries of a computer far past its prime, and by the evils of a creature known only by the minacious name Blogger BETA.
The event, Paper [...]

This dish was served on Saturday, December 16th, 2006 at 2:16 am and is filed under food blogging events, in the garden, paper chef, recipes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Shhh. I may look like I’m just lazing about in the garden with the daffodils, but actually, I’m on duty. Mommy’s not feeling well so I’m guarding the blog until she returns. (Feline enemies, beware! I know your hiding places. Well, most of them, anyway.)

This dish was served on Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006 at 10:45 pm and is filed under in the garden, superfluous dogs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

… The thing I hate about pruning is when you have to let go of a branch and it sproings back at you and slaps you in the face.

That and Platelicker’s land mines, buried so nicely in the newly-tall weeds. Aw, thanks pooch, you shouldn’t have. …

This dish was served on Wednesday, March 8th, 2006 at 6:49 pm and is filed under in the garden, metabelly. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

… So, I had every intention of baking referee striped gingerbread cookies on Monday and then biting their heads off, but then this freaky yellow thing appeared in the sky and I noticed equally freaky purple things in the garden and got distracted. …

This dish was served on Tuesday, February 7th, 2006 at 8:29 pm and is filed under in the garden. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Today, I am not an angry cat. Nor am I a frivolous cat, dressed in Kaga finery. Nor even a hungry cat, fending off my kibble from the evils of Platelicker. …

This dish was served on Friday, November 11th, 2005 at 5:21 pm and is filed under in the garden, obligatory cats. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

…These past few weeks, after he left us, I worked like a demon. It became an imperative with me — as if I’d be dishonoring his memory to not end each day with cracked, dirty fingernails and mountains of progress. …

This dish was served on Thursday, May 26th, 2005 at 2:14 pm and is filed under in the garden. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

… I don’t remember much about what we planted — other than I know we had pumpkins for Halloween, giant sized late summer zucchini, and I always begged to have at least one or two sunflowers to harvest (though I was challenged getting to the seeds before the crows did). I remember spring time when I was no more than five or six, doling out seeds, running from hole to hole with the hose, impatiently checking for sprouts, day in and day out. …

This dish was served on Friday, April 8th, 2005 at 1:53 pm and is filed under in the garden. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.