Category Archives: Food Stuff

Podcast: You Tube Skills Week: Cake Decorating

Posted on January 6, 2023 by Liza Blue

An attempt to learn how to decorate a cake based on a You Tube video. Follow Liza Blue on: Share:

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YouTube Skills Week: Cake Decorating

Posted on December 24, 2022 by Liza Blue

Cake decorating seemed like an easy choice in my quest to sample a new skill each day.  My goal was not anything as elaborate as a wedding cake, rather a simple cake that didn’t feature my signature sloping, delaminated layers … Continue reading →

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You Tube Skills Week: Bread Making

Posted on November 24, 2022 by Liza Blue

This fanagram is the second in a series about “YouTube Skills Week,” where I attempt to learn a new skill each day based on a YouTube video.  The first focused on taxidermy.    —————— You Tube Skills Week: Bread Making … Continue reading →

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Podcast: You Tube Skills Week: Bread-Making

Posted on November 24, 2022 by Liza Blue

The second in a series of a week devoted to learning a new skill each day, based on a YouTube video. Follow Liza Blue on: Share:

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Hair Today

Posted on October 28, 2020 by Liza Blue

As Nick and I entered the restaurant, I knew the food could not possibly meet our expectations. “Pig,” a farm to table restaurant located in the countryside near Bath, England, had been recommended by a local friend when she heard … Continue reading →

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The Banana Incident

Posted on August 25, 2018 by Liza Blue

I hate bananas. Actually, hate is inadequate to describe the depth of my feeling. So is despise, detest, abhor, loathe and revile. Bananas assault all of my senses. The wet sticky sound when you eat them reminds me of dogs … Continue reading →

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The Best of 63,000

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Liza Blue

I grew up in an atmosphere of food as fuel, though my mother would wince to hear her culinary efforts so lightly dismissed.  But she was in charge of feeding five kids three meals a day, and then a separate … Continue reading →

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Marketing Unplugged: Madagascar Vanilla

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Liza Blue

  Recently we dined at a local bistro, a casual spot falling comfortably between family dining and fine dining.  Very straight forward entrées –  grilled rosemary chicken, grilled salmon, various pasta dishes – but I was confused by the description of the … Continue reading →

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Marketing Unplugged: Roasted Black Garlic Potato Chips

Posted on June 6, 2016 by Liza Blue

On a quick dash through the grocery aisles to pick up last minute items – mascarpone cheese for a lime pie, lemon for the kale salad – I impulsively grabbed a novelty bag of “Kettle Cooked Black Garlic Chips.” When … Continue reading →

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Ten Foods That I Have Demonized and Can No Longer Eat

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Liza Blue

1.  Liver, because as a pathologist I have done too many autopsies where I have had to grapple with slippery, greasy livers ravaged by poor life choices. (I still like ribs though.) 2.  Escargot, because the action of extracting them … Continue reading →

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