The glow of the first Eat Write Retreat weekend still lingers. Sitting in a kind of nasty Hilton Hotel room in Silver Spring, Maryland two days later (to be clear, not the conference hotel, which was the incredibly beautiful and awesome Madison Hotel in downtown Washington, D.C.), surrounded by bags and boxes of insane (in…
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#IFBC Part 2: The Good Stuff
Lest you think that the International Food Bloggers Conference was a full-on bummer for me (see previous post), let me assure you that it was anything but. Oh, sure, there was drama, but I think a certain amount of drama is natural in any situation where you’ve got 250 people together in one place for…
Recipe Monday: Chipotle Sauced Meatloaf
I am an absolute fiend for Chipotle. Chipotle anything. As one of my birthday gifts, last year, MJ went online to one of our favorite exotic spice purveyors and, among other things (like Szechuan peppercorns and turmeric fingers!), got me some dried chipotle peppers and chipotle chili powder. Mmmmm! Saturday was rainy and stormy, and…
