And The Cookbook Goes To…

The lucky winner of Cooking Jewish by Judy Bart Kancigor is Phyllis of Ima on (and off) the Bima. Phyllis, I’ll be in touch to get your address so be on the lookout for an email from me!

April 16, 2008 | Filed Under Blog | 2 Comments 

Cookbook Giveaway!

I have been given a copy of Cooking Jewish by Judy Bart Kancigor to give away to one of my readers. Although it is a book of Jewish recipes, don’t worry if you’re not Jewish because really, who doesn’t love matzo ball soup and all of the yummy desserts I can’t wait to try!

All you have to do is leave a comment by April 14 and tell me something about yourself, kinda like we did last year. A winner will be drawn at random via a very scientific method of writing everyones name on a piece of paper and sticking all the names in a bowl and choosing one. The winner will then be contacted by email so please make sure your email address is in the comments. Also, this is only open to people who live in the US and Canada, unless you want to pay for the shipping yourself. (Sorry!)

April 6, 2008 | Filed Under Blog | 35 Comments 

Chocolate! Contest!

Nosh With Me was nominated for a Death By Chocolate food blogger contest. Both a reader and blogger will win trips for two to Napa to attend a chocolate festival! So go ahead and register as a reader (which enters you in the drawing), then vote for your favorite food blogger (preferably um, me), and maybe we’ll have a chance to chat while we stuff our bellies with chocolate up north!

February 4, 2008 | Filed Under Blog | Leave a Comment 

2007 In Pictures

2007 in Yummies

Looking forward to trying lots of new recipes in 2008, Happy New Year!

December 31, 2007 | Filed Under Blog | 4 Comments 

Contest Time

I’m in the process of redesigning this blog (see below and click to enlarge) and am having a contest (read: win baked goods)! I’m looking to replace the header image (the coffee cup) with something that better reflects Nosh With Me. I’m going to change the fonts a bit, but I’d like to keep the color scheme, at least for now.

Win Cookies! Header Image Contest

Requirements

  • GIF image size: 789 x 125 pixels
  • Must include the words: Nosh With Me and One girl’s love affair with her KitchenAid mixer.

Also, feel free to use photos on my Flickr account.

Prize
One dozen cookies (or cupcakes if you’re local) of your choice.

Deadline
Tentatively January 31, 2008.

Submission
Email me at hilary (at) noshwithme (dot) com for more information or to submit your design.

Can’t wait to see them!

December 26, 2007 | Filed Under Blog | 1 Comment 

Nosh With Me on Facebook

Nosh With Me is now on Facebook. Why? I’m not quite sure, except that some of my favorite food bloggers are there and I was beginning to feel left out. So please stop by and be my friend (fan?). See you there!

December 13, 2007 | Filed Under Blog | 3 Comments 

Leftover Halloween Candy Cupcakes

My coworkers had some leftover Halloween candy, so I had the brilliant idea of bringing more sugar to the office via leftover Halloween candy cupcakes! Because how can candy and a cupcake together possibly be bad? Well…

I found a recipe for candy cupcakes and it said to chop the candy and stir it into the batter. Since I’m not a huge fan of crunchy cupcakes, I had the brilliant [at the time] idea of chopping the candies into thirds and putting a piece directly in the batter, like I did for the cookie dough cupcakes.

Piece of Baby Ruth candy bar in the batter

Unfortunately, I didn’t take into consideration that the heat from the oven would melt the chocolate and caramel, thus causing it to stick to the bottom of the wrapper. Ooops.

With a piece of Baby Ruth in the center and on top.

I’m pretty sure my coworkers will still eat them.
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As you probably did not notice, although I feel the need to share anyway, I now have a Flickr account solely for this blog, which can be found here. This means each recipe is sorted into its own set, and all sets of the same type of recipe are all part of a collection. Did that make sense? Maybe this will make it easier. Yes, I am slightly obsessive when it comes to organizing things.

I’ve moved most of my baking pictures over, but I am still in the process of adding captions and recipe links, so in the meantime, all of the previous posts still link to the pictures on the old Flickr stream.

That is all.

November 11, 2007 | Filed Under Blog, Cakes and Cupcakes, Failure | 2 Comments 

Your Turn

So I’m a little curious about the people who visit this blog regularly. Tell me about yourselves! Where do you live? What do you do? Are you married? Have kids? Have you tried any recipes on my blog? If so, what did you think? And finally, do you have a recipe (or a nice Jewish boy) for me?

October 14, 2007 | Filed Under Blog | 48 Comments 

Still Here

Just busy baking for other people, as evidenced here:

Busy

1. Mini Vanilla Cupcakes, 2. Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies, 3. Cinnamon-Sugar Cookies, 4. World Peace Cookies. Not shown: Mini Chocolate Cupcakes.

New recipes soon, I promise!

June 26, 2007 | Filed Under Blog | 1 Comment 

Excuses, Excuses

Why I haven’t been trying new recipes lately:

Organized Chaos Pretty [Yummy]

April 17, 2007 | Filed Under Blog | 4 Comments 

Recipe Index

I installed a plugin that created a recipe index for this blog. You can now see a list of recipes by category without having to scroll through a big mess. I’m still tweaking the HTML and trying to adjust the spacing but hope to have it fixed soon. Enjoy!

April 11, 2007 | Filed Under Blog | 5 Comments 

I’m Still Here

I just haven’t tried any new recipes lately. However, I have gotten my baking business started, as evidenced here.

I know I don’t need to apologize for the lack of new posts, but I feel badly when I don’t update this blog. So here’s a non-recipe update for ya. I know, total cop out post. Anyway, I’m hoping to try a new cupcake recipe this week and will post about it if it actually happens. (Life has been busy!) If I don’t get to it, there won’t be any recipes until after Passover because really, I have no new Passover recipes to try; I think we’ve found all the good ones. Speaking of Passover recipes, if that’s what you’re looking for, they’re over here. The matzo brittle and apple crisp are my family’s faves.

Have a good Pesach/Easter!

March 26, 2007 | Filed Under Blog | 2 Comments 

New Recipes Soon

I know, I’m long overdue for a post. I wanted to pop on and say I haven’t forgotten about this blog, I just haven’t had time to bake–fun dates with a cute-guy-turned-frog and a trip to NYC have kept me busy! I’m hoping to find time to bake this weekend, and it will probably be some type of cookie, so stay tuned!

Also, a quick hello to everyone who got here via the epi-log.

February 22, 2007 | Filed Under Blog | 1 Comment 

New Feature–Recipe Ratings

[ratings]

I installed a plugin that will allow me (and you) to rate the recipes I post. It’s simple–just choose the number of stars you think a recipe deserves, the rating will refresh, then it will display. Feel free to test it out on this post.

Before I add this to all the posts, I wanted to see if anyone notices any problems. I thought the page was loading slowly, but my Internet connection at home is all messed up. Let me know if you find any issues with it!

January 8, 2007 | Filed Under Blog | 3 Comments 

Mmm, Popsicles

There won’t be any new posts until the new year as I’m finally getting my tonsils out on Tuesday. It’s been six months of chronic Strep, and I am beyond excited to start the new year sans infection.

In the meantime, please tell me any of the following:

  • How did you find your way to my blog?
  • Have you tried any of the recipes I’ve posted, and if so, which did you like or not like?
  • Do you have a favorite recipe you think I’d like, and if so, please share it.

Happy Holidays!

December 18, 2006 | Filed Under Blog | 10 Comments 

Just A Note

I’m still here, I promise!

I’ve been sick with chronic Strep and tonsillitis lately so I haven’t been doing any baking. If the results of my latest Strep test are negative, I’ll have a tonsillectomy on November 21 which means you can expect new recipes again sometime in December. In the meantime, I’ll be eating lots of popsicles and looking at yummy stuff I can’t eat.

Okay, scratch that. The Strep came back which means my surgery has been postponed to December 19. Stay tuned for new recipes soon, as long as I am feeling well.

November 10, 2006 | Filed Under Blog | 11 Comments 

Apples and Honey

I probably won’t be trying any new recipes again until after the high holidays, so I wanted to wish my fellow Jewish readers a happy, healthy, and sweet new year. Shana tova!

September 21, 2006 | Filed Under Blog | 3 Comments 

Printable Recipes

I installed a plugin that should allow you to print recipes by clicking on Print This Post at the bottom of each post. Of course, this was so simple to install that I’m pretty sure it won’t work properly. And unfortunately, I don’t have a printer at home to test it out tonight. So, if anyone happens to try it, let me know how it works.

Update: I noticed that the Print This Post link is only available when looking at posts on the main page. It won’t work if you get to the post via the archives or categories. I’ll look into this.

September 12, 2006 | Filed Under Blog | 3 Comments 

Another Chance to Win Cupcakes

Because my last header image contest was such a huge success (thanks Maria!), I decided to do it again, this time for my baking blog. Here are the details:

Size: 762 x 190 px

Format: gif file

The look: I’m probably going to end up using the same template I’m using for my other blog, but with different colors and the new header. And feel free to use any of the baking photos I have on Flickr.

Colors: Totally open.

Text: Nosh With Me and One girl’s love affair with her KitchenAid mixer.

Deadline: Friday, August 4.

Prize: A dozen cookies or cupcakes. If I’m mailing them to you, you’ll probably get cookies as I haven’t yet experimented with mailing cupcakes.

Let me know if you want to enter!

Update: Send entries to nosh at noshwithme.com!

July 4, 2006 | Filed Under Blog | 3 Comments 

New Name, New Address

Yep, I moved again. This time it’s permanent…I promise!

Stay tuned for the new look too.

July 1, 2006 | Filed Under Blog | Leave a Comment 

Questions

I’m not sure how many people read this regularly, so I have no idea if I’ll get any responses, but here goes:

  • Do you have any recipes that look fun but haven’t had a chance to try? If so, what are they? I’m always looking for new ones.
  • Do you find the pictures of the baking process beneficial or should I just post one of the final product?
  • Have you tried any of the recipes on here? If so, which did you try and how did it turn out?

And of course, if you have anything else to share, I’d love to hear it!

May 12, 2006 | Filed Under Blog, Questions | 13 Comments