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New Apple iPhone 4G Is Here!

June 23, 2010
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Just got my new iPhone 4G, just out of the box. Here are some photos of the new model.

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The Great Kitchen De-Clutter

June 17, 2010
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My kitchen was out of control, and with a little effort I made it a very comfortable place to be. Feng Shui is all about practical feeling and organization.

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New Facebook “Like” Button

June 14, 2010

Hey everyone, if you look at the bottom of my posts, you’ll now see a little button that allows you to “like” that post on Facebook. I’m curious to see what you all think of it, and if it’s working for you. Please let me know if it gives you any problems, like errors, so [...]

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Foodie Gift Ideas for Dad’s Day

June 10, 2010
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Don’t know what to get your dad for Father’s Day? Here’s a selection of fabulous cooking-related gift ideas he’ll love.

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Scribe SEO Tool for Food Bloggers

May 28, 2010
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Scribe, a Wordpress plugin that helps tailor your blog copy for SEO, is a very handy tool for bloggers – especially food bloggers.

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Tracking Your Stats with Google Analytics

May 25, 2010
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There are many options when it comes to tracking who comes to your blog and what they’ve done during their visit, but one of the most popular services many bloggers use is Google Anayltics.

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2010 IACP Conference in Portland

April 24, 2010
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I just finished my first IACP conference. I learned a lot and had a great time.

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Good. Food. Stories. Guest Post

April 12, 2010
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Looking for great restaurants in San Francisco’s Mission District? Check out my guest post on places you HAVE to eat.

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National Food Bloggers’ Bake Sale – Right Here in San Francisco!

April 7, 2010
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If you’re in the Bay Area, stop by the National Food Bloggers’ Bake Sale in San Francisco on April 17th to help end childhood hunger.

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Launching the Good Taste Review

February 17, 2010
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We’ve launched a new blog! Please welcome The Good Taste Review as we take off the bubble wrap and push our new site into the world.

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NASFT Fancy Food Show – Winter 2010

January 22, 2010
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Here’s a recap of the Winter 2010 NASFT Fancy Food Show, held in San Francisco on January 17-19.

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Strawberry Recipe iPhone App

January 20, 2010
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Do you love strawberries? Check out this free iPhone app, which includes one of my recipes!

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Ixtapa Food Blogger Camp Recap

January 18, 2010
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I had a great time at Food Blogger Camp in Ixtapa, Mexico. What a perfect week.

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Club Med Food Blogger Camp Photos

January 10, 2010
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Check out these photos from the Club Med food blogger conference.

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Merry Christmas, My Lovely Readers!

December 24, 2009
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A quick message of love and honor, for you, my beloved readers. <3

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Holiday Foodie Gifts for $20 or under

December 4, 2009
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Looking for gifts for your favorite foodies? Here are a bunch they’ll love – all under $20!

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What Am I Thankful For?

November 25, 2009
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I’d like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude for all of the blessings in my life. I swear, I’m not a cliche. Ok, maybe just a little bit.

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The Drama Behind Buying Free Range Chicken and Eggs?

November 20, 2009
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How can you tell what free range chicken and eggs to buy? I sure as hell can’t.

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Holiday Recipes

November 13, 2009
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Looking for the best holiday recipes? Here’s a bunch of great dishes for you to make for Christmas.

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Holiday Shopping Alert! Amazon’s Discount on KitchenAid Mixers

November 8, 2009
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Looking for a great deal on a KitchenAid mixer? Here are some great deals I found on Amazon.

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Guest Post: Oakland’s Grand Lake Farmers Market

October 25, 2009
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Today I wrote a guest post for SummerTomato.com about my adventures at Oakland’s Grand Lake Farmers Market. Check out this photo-packed post for lots of lovely food photos!

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Saturday Morning Cute Cupcake Roundup

October 17, 2009
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When I’m looking for a little inspiration, what better muse is there than cupcakes?

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Deal of the Day: Pamela’s Gluten Free Cornbread & Muffin Mix

October 8, 2009
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Tired of not having cornbread for the holidays? Pamela’s makes an amazing gluten free cornbread mix, and I’ll tell you where to get it for super cheap.

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Loved BlogHer Food 09!

September 30, 2009
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This last weekend I attended the BlogHer Food 09 conference. I had an amazing time and learned a lot!

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LOTD – Links of the Day – 9/25/09

September 25, 2009

As is common for those in my profession, I spend a lot of time working researching wasting time on the internet. I thought I’d share some of the more interesting things I’ve found lately. Divorce Cakes – clever, and a little wrong. Love it. The Roommate Refridgerator – a fridge that I think it both [...]

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BlogHer Food ’09 Is Almost Here!

September 23, 2009

So, who’s going to BlogHer Food this weekend? I’m very excited to see you all! There will be lots of people I’ve met before, and many more completely new faces. This should be a very exciting weekend. Where are you all staying? Or better yet, where are you all eating? I’m an SF local, so [...]

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Guest Posting with A Traveler’s Library

September 23, 2009
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Today travel writer Vera Badertscher and I are swapping guest posts. She writes about food allergy cards, and I wax poetic about my favorite book, Life of Pi.

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How to Supreme an Orange

September 16, 2009
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Want to learn how to supreme an orange? With these step-by-step instructions and easy to follow tutorials, you’ll be making perfect orange slices in no time.

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A Great Deal on Agave Nectar

September 15, 2009
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Looking for agave nectar but don’t want to pay an arm and a leg for the stuff? Check out this link to Amazon’s great deal.

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Bloggers Choice Award – Please Vote for Me!

August 13, 2009
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I’m very excited to be up for a Blogger’s Choice Award this year! It’s definitely an honor to be considered, and even more of an honor to see the votes continue to roll in. Wasabimon has been nominated for two different awards, Best Food Blog and Best Blog Design. If you like what you see and read here, I’d really appreciate it if you would go over to the site and vote for the blog.

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Winners of the Mix Shake Stir Giveaway

August 10, 2009
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Three lucky winners won a copy of “Mix Shake Stir,” an awesome cocktail cookbook by the bartenders of Danny Meyer’s famous bars. Congratulations!

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Win a Copy of “Mix Shake Stir”

August 7, 2009
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Want to win your own copy of Mix Shake Stir? Then enter the free giveaway!

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Summer Fest 2009

August 5, 2009
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Summer is a time of peaches, nectarines, blueberries, raspberries, pineapples, herbs, legumes, you name it. I want them all, constantly. I’m not the only one, either – there’s a whole world of food bloggers out there who are participating in Summer Fest, a summertime food blogging event.

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Summer 09 Redesign

June 25, 2009
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The site has been redesigned. Let me know what you think.

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Another Year of Birthday Love… Already?

June 19, 2009
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Today’s my birthday! I’m not saying how old I am, but I did want to say that over the past few weeks I’ve been slowly collecting birthday gifts that will up the ante of my food photography on Wasabimon. I’ve actually got years of photo training (in the traditional film world, that is), but you [...]

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Drawing Results: Congratulations, Doryan!

June 15, 2009

We have a winner for the Shun Ken Onion 8″ chef’s knife.

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Spice Cabinet Mayhem!

June 11, 2009

My spice cabinet is out of control! What started as a corner of a cupboard has grown to ridiculous proportions, with spices taking over two shelves and overflowing onto the counter. They’re a major PITA to search through. Do any of you with unwieldy spice collections have a solution? I’ve researched spice rack ideas, but [...]

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Do You Want Your Own Shun Chef’s Knife?

June 9, 2009
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Here’s an additional way to win your $250 chef’s knife!

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Just Call Me Princess Peach

June 5, 2009
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There’s only one part of the year that I love more than green garlic season, and that’s stone fruit season. Peaches, nectarines, plums, pluots, apriums – they all cause me to shiver deep down inside as their sweet juices play over my tongue, waking tastebuds that lay dormant from September to June. Peach Fuzz Love [...]

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Enter the “Shun Kitchen Knives are Bad Ass” Contest!

June 1, 2009
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If you want to win one of your own Ken Onion Shun knives, here’s your chance to win a $250 8″ chef’s knife in a free drawing.

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Foodista’s International Food Bloggers Conference 09

May 18, 2009

Foodista hosted the first International Food Bloggers Conference in Seattle, Washington. It was a wonderful event.

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Avoiding Airport and Airline Food

May 13, 2009

Eating healthy while flying is a major pain in the arse, but with a little thought, if doesn’t have to be diet warfare.

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How to Un-Season Your Cast Iron Skillet

April 29, 2009
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One night last week I made the huge mistake of putting wine in my cast iron skillet. Now, I’m not cookware-ninny… I know my stuff pretty well. And the entire time that I was lifting the wine bottle from my counter, removing the cork, and pouring Sauvignon Blanc into the pan, this little voice in [...]

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Creative Holiday Gift Ideas: Easter Basket Jars

April 11, 2009

I ran across this on a forum I’m on, and decided to make something similar for my family this Easter: Creative Holiday Gift Ideas: EASTER BUNNY S’MORES.

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Easter Cupcakes!

April 8, 2009

I have a little thing for Easter cupcakes. Sure I can’t eat them (meh!) but I can still appreciate the artful overdose of cute, can’t I? Here are a few of the best Easter cupcakes I’ve seen so far: And then this was just cool: How can your resist Easter cupcakes??

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Changes Coming Soon – Thesis & Categories

March 31, 2009

For the past few months I’ve spent a lot of time mulling over making major changes to the front and back end of Wasabimon. There are lots of things I want to do, but as anyone in the blogosphere knows all too well, making changes in an already operational blog requires finesse. In the upcoming [...]

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March 2009 LoveToKnow Link Roundup

March 23, 2009

I do a lot of food writing these days, but I spend a lot of my time writing for a great website called LoveToKnow. I thought that I should link some of my articles here, since they run the gamut from cooking to diet and nutrition. If you like them, please forward them on to [...]

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KitchenAid Mixer Decals

March 13, 2009

Today I was surfing around Amazon and I ran across these decals for the KitchenAid mixer. I love my KitchenAid mixer, and I’ve always wanted to have it custom painted by my husband, who’s a brilliant artist. Unfortunately, he’s not even remotely motivated to paint my mixer. Meh. (HINT BIRTHDAY GIFT HINT) So, I guess [...]

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Bacon Rosemary Garlic Mashed Potatoes Recipe

March 9, 2009

The only thing that can make a garlic mashed potatoes recipe better is rosemary. Oh, and bacon (because doesn’t bacon turn everything up to eleven?). I love bacon. For health reasons I try not to eat it often, but occasionally I’ll make a recipe that requires bacon and I’ll find half a pound of the [...]

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Valentine’s Day Sweets Showcase

February 14, 2009

Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! Below are a few of the prettiest Valentine’s Day desserts I’ve come across on the internet, via MegaNom.

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