http://www.kitchenettejen.com/blog the misadventures of a twentysomething recipe addict Fri, 30 May 2008 04:03:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ...for a very important date!  At the opera! Would you believe me if I told you I posted my May Daring Bakers challenge post a day late just so I could use that Alice in Wonderland reference? No.  No, you wouldn't. And you'd be right.  It completely slipped my mind this month that ... http://www.kitchenettejen.com/blog/2008/05/29/im-lateim-late/ So what do a career crisis, recurring headaches, and general anxiety have in common?  They are all things that have been happening to ME recently.  And while I know that each post lately seems to be not a post, but an excuse for why I am not posting...it's time to ... http://www.kitchenettejen.com/blog/2008/04/01/its-my-party-cake-and-ill-cry-if-i-want-to/ Change.  It's a funny thing. The winds of change are blowing around here.  Not in a food-related or blog-related sense, necessarily, but our lives are changing.  I won't share everything here now, but we are excited about what's going on (and no, I am NOT pregnant...ack!). Spring is coming.  Spring WILL come.  ... http://www.kitchenettejen.com/blog/2008/03/14/winds-of-change/ Note: I do not speak French. At all. Sure, I like to sound like I know what I'm talking about. A la carte. Au bon pain. L'homme mange.  The truth is, my knowledge of the French language is limited to what I have picked ... http://www.kitchenettejen.com/blog/2008/02/29/je-ne-sais-bread/ Oh, Internets!  I have not abandoned you, I swear!! I realize that I have gone nearly the entire month of February without a single post, and am fully aware that if it weren't from my very talented husband and his giant sweet tooth, you would've been left with nothing. And I am ... http://www.kitchenettejen.com/blog/2008/02/28/blogwhat-blog/ Ah, cooking. Certain things are just impossible to screw up. Spaghetti, for instance. Taste it. Is it crunchy? Taste it again. Drain, pour sauce, done. Then there's buttermilk fudge. It's a short list of ingredients - buttermilk, sugar (lots), butter and walnuts. The basic idea behind fudge is to create a ... http://www.kitchenettejen.com/blog/2008/02/21/oh-fudge/ Welcome to the new site!! Or rather, the old site at the new address! We are hoping that exciting things will be coming soon now that the jump over to the new domain is complete. Don't forget to change your bookmarks and RSS feeds if that is how you ... http://www.kitchenettejen.com/blog/2008/02/15/welcome/ In my (Mr. K's) opinion, our dutch oven is the best $39 I've spent on a kitchen appliance. Before I get to why, though, I should probably explain what one is to those of you who haven't heard of it. And, why I ended up getting one for my wife ... http://www.kitchenettejen.com/blog/2008/02/07/double-dutch/ This winter is making me crazy. Snow, melt. Snow, snow, melt. Snow, snow, snow, snow, melt, melt, snow. And so on. Hi, my name is Jen, and I live in Chicago. And I am NOT very happy about it. In the spirit of misdirected rage, I bring ... http://www.kitchenettejen.com/blog/2008/02/05/if-winter-doesnt-end-right-now-then-i-will-jump-off-a-bridge-pizza/ I have been a bit lazy and slow to post lately.  Part of the reason is, of course, that as I've gotten more and more excited about food blogging, I've naturally found more and more food blogs out there to add to my RSS feeds.  Just the other day, I ... http://www.kitchenettejen.com/blog/2008/01/30/spa-riffic-whole-wheat-sun-dried-tomato-buns/