Warmin’ It Up Across The World Wide Web

Although we can be relatively solitary creatures here on Forkable, sometimes, someone comes along and invites us to crawl out from under our virtual rock. When Claire, of the awesome blog Life In Chicago, asked if we had any recipes to share with her readers, we jumped at the chance. So check it out; here’s one of our favorite recipes from the archives to help you warm it up in these cold, cold times, as well as give you some exclusive behind-the-scenes back story for a little personal interest. I’d like to take this moment to reach across the large expanses of the world wide web to give Claire a virtual high five!

My Kitchen Is FAMOUS!

photo by Jill Paider

This week, TimeOut Chicago is featuring my kitchen as part of an urban essay on the conundrum of city kitchen Counter Culture, or lack there of.  Katherine Raz, editor of BackGarage.com, hailed as the Apartment Therapy for the Great Depression, is master at finding high design in low places.  Here she investigates how we used “salvaged remnants” to expand our cabinet and counter space.  Interested? Of course you are!  Read more to find out how you can do it too!

Salvaged remnants! I love it.  Much better then alley junk.  Thanks Katherine!

Greased?!

As any blogger, of course I am obsessed with my hits per day stats. I was checking the list of linking sites bringing traffic to my blog and I came upon this weird link which when clicked, slaps a huge realistic slab of bacon all over my blog.

You can scroll up or down, but the bacon stays. SO weird! Someone out there decided I needed a side of bacon on my website, so apparently, I’ve been greased. Everyone is talking about how bacon was a one of the hottest hipster food trends of 2008. I think its totally hilarious but I’m not entirely sure I get it. Is there more to this then just virtual bacon? Anyone?

Are Supper Clubs the New Restaurants?

Best of 2008 lists are all hot this week, and New Year predictions not far behind. Forkable was lucky enough to be mentioned in one prediction, stated by Time Out Chicago grouping us with Supper clubs such as Clandestino, Sunday Dinner, and Lush as a popular alternatives for adventurous diners on a budget for the upcoming year.

Well adventurous diners, there are still seats available for our next Inauguration Bash scheduled for Sunday, January 18. If you are interested in reserving a seat, please send me an email.

Pies For The Win!

The Instructable’s Pie contest winners are in, and guess what??

The authors of these Instructables will each receive a hardcover copy of The Pie and Pastry Bible and an Instructables Robot t-shirt.

Top Votes				Judges Prize
How To Make A Vampie by thegirlwithacurl		Cheesecake by hitokiri_808		Blueberry And Apricot Pie In A Skillet!! by Forkable

Yours truly won the Judge’s Choice award! Omg, Omg! Yay. Yah, Yah! (I am a bit out of breath from jumping around!) I am soooo excited. I will be receiving The Pie and Pastry Bible, 704 pages of pie pleasure. We’re going to be making pies from now until forever. And, a robot t-shirt. Alright!

Congrats! Girl with a curl for your winning Vampie Entry!

OK enough about me. Lets talk about one of the 1st prize winners, a pie which will have you infected with deliciousness, at first bite! Its a Vampie! When I saw this, I along with everyone else had to vote for The Girl With A Curl’s awesome entry. As she says, this is a pie “your guests would love to sink their fangs, er, teeth into. Fresh strawberries are the “bloody” base for this sinful sweet!” Along her clear and thorough instructions are nicely shot detailed pictures to help you along. So pull out your cape and coffin, but no garlic please!

Check me out!

Ahh. So I am up to my elbows in 20 lbs of potato salad and cole slaw right now preparing for ForkFest, my first food event tomorrow.

(My kitchen in messy land)

The mayonnaise I just smeared all over my keypad is indicative of my lack of time to even wipe my hands off before typing this. Luckily, I don’t have to write a long post.

My good friend Katherine Raz, author of the urban design blog BackGarage.com, has just posted about my kitchen, spotlighting my Kitchen “Hacks” as a good example of manipulating urban spaces working within a tight budget.

(my kitchen in perfect land)

Wow, I didn’t realize how cool I am. Thanks Katherine!!