Who do you read?

Tomorrow’s column is all about food blogs. So I’ll send out the query here, too: Which food blogs do you read? Any favorites that you’d recommend I check out? Any Eastern Iowans out there with food blogs?

Pity the (April) fool!

In today’s column, I gave you Martha Stewart’s recipe for a meatloaf cake.
I first learned about meatloaf cake a couple of years ago when a friend forwarded me a link to BlackWidowBakery.com’s meatcake. I love the T-bone frosting. Anyway, apparently the web site made the rounds. Black Widow Bakery has a photo gallery full of [...]

Iron Chef slide show

Check out Gazette photographer Liz Martin’s audio slide show on Iron Chef Cedar Rapids here.

A non-food post: Check us out on Facebook!

This post has nothing to do with food.
But I wanted to let you know about my latest non-food project: The Gazette has a page on Facebook! It includes news headlines and blog feeds, behind-the-scenes photos of the newsroom and our printing press,  quick links to GazetteOnline and some of our other products, a discussion board where you can talk [...]

Eggs get cute

This is the coolest thing ever:

 It’s an egg!
What a great idea for a fun, healthy Easter treat! Check out this post from JustBento.com for more information about egg molds, how to use them and where to find them.

An easy way to search food blogs

Vanilla Garlic tipped me off to a new recipe search engine created by another food blogger (yes, there are a lot of us) over at Simply Recipes.
Food Blog Search uses Google technology to search more than 1,000 food blogs (with more blogs being added to the list of sites searched every day). It’s pretty cool — and a [...]