Posted by Gabi on 20 January 09
I am so happy today- I know I’ve been off of the blog for a while more on that later- but today I just wanted to write and say how happy I am to be an American and how much I commit to serve my country and the world right along with President Obama. Nothing [...]
Posted by Gabi on 8 October 08
Many months ago I was contacted by a super guy named Al over at Country Bob’s All Purpose Sauce and asked if I would be willing to accept a couple of bottles of sauce to try and let them know how I liked it. I replied that sure I would be happy to do just that. Al was a [...]
Posted by Gabi on 9 November 07
I was cruising some of my fellow Daring Bakers’ blogs and visited lovely Laura’s blog: Cult of Domesticity. Laura made me laugh by passing on this post from Johnny Virgil at 15 Minute Lunch about a 1977 JC Penney Ad and so I went back a few days later to see what she was up [...]
Posted by Gabi on 24 September 07
When I read “Under the Tuscan Sun”by Frances Mayes, one of the things that stayed with me was a description of how a fig is pollinated. A tiny little male wasp is so drawn to the charms of a fig blossom that he crawls up inside and is trapped there, giving us a fig in [...]