This post is not about returning to blogging

I don’t know about you, but my least favorite kind of blog post is the kind that apologizes for being away from the blog for so long. While I feel all kinds of remorseful for not stopping by here for two whole seasons, I’d like to dispense with the “what I’ve been doing these past [...]

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Still looking for a Mother’s Day gift?

This is a quick note to say that the good folks at Zingerman’s are sharing a family & friends discount code to friends of The Gastronomical Three. So if you want to send your sweet mama something sweet from Ann Arbor, here’s your chance to do so and save a little dough.
Use the secret [...]

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Tonight on the Food Network

Just a quick note to pass on a bit of local food celebrity news that I gleaned this morning at Diner for a Day: local cake artist Heather Anne Leavitt will be on the Food Network Challenge this evening at 8pm, along with Courtney Clark of Cake Nouveau. Check it out!

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Cooking for One – Salad Nicoise

I’m on my own this week, as Lenny has gone down to New Orleans to visit family (he’s been posting photos of oyster po-boys and such on his Facebook to make everyone jealous). In any event, that hasn’t stopped me from soothing my post-holiday/return-to-workweek blues with some good eating when I get home at night. [...]

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All Sorts of Celebration

Sometime in the afternoon of Christmas Eve, the streets begin to empty, the stores shut down, the lights go on in houses, and we are in the quiet of Christmas week.  I love this point in the holidays, when silence falls upon the town and the hustle and bustle fall away. We snuggle, we settle [...]

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G3 Gift Idea: Holiday Reminder

So I had ideas for a lot of different posts this weekend. But after two days of non-stop holiday preparations of one sort of another, my brain and my typing fingers are way tired. So, before I go off to sip wine in front of the Christmas tree (while I enter the expenses in Quicken [...]

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G3 Gift Idea (sort of): Coping With The Problem of Giving

So, first, a confession. I am notoriously lax about charitable giving. Like, way too lax for my current income level and social ideals.  This is one part residual poverty mentality from many years of graduate school, temp jobs and single-woman-with-an-Ann-Arbor-mortgage-hood, one part inertia and many many parts over-thinking. Have I mentioned my tendency to over-think?  [...]

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Gone West

A lot of work; a little play.

Good coffee, good vibe, grey weather.  Maple donuts with bacon on top.

Did I mention good coffee?  Back to Ann Arbor in mind, body and blog, soon.

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A Trio of Thanksgiving Menus

It’s the weekend before Thanksgiving and good, well-organized cooks everywhere have planned their menus, assembled their shopping lists and are about to embark upon an epic cooking adventure.
And then there are the rest of us. Well, actually, and then there’s me.  About half the time I’m a good cook(the other half I would say I’m [...]

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End of an Era: everday cook closes tomorrow

UPDATE: Mary just posted a lovely farewell, thank you, and stay tuned post on the lunch@everyday cook blog.
I’m back with another service announcement for our Ann Arbor readers. It’s official: despite a great response from the community to Mary Campbell’s proposal to offer memberships, everyday cook in Kerrytown will be closing this Saturday, June [...]

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