by messienessie_62pahm | Mar 29, 2016 | Live, Portland Local, Uncategorized
Today’s post is written by food blogger and long-time friend, Lisa Kurvits, as a favor to this blogger who was unable to make it to the press preview of The Hairy Lobster due to unforeseen illness (stomach flu — egads!). I am so grateful to both Lisa for...
by messienessie_62pahm | Dec 8, 2014 | Fall & Winter Recipes, Live, Meals, Site Demo, Soups and Stews, Uncategorized
During the winter months, as life gets busier with the hustle and bustle of the holiday season and I am wont to run around with my family spontaneously looking at holiday lights but still needing desperately to meet deadlines, I find something has to be trimmed down...
by messienessie_62pahm | Sep 25, 2013 | Food Musings, Live, Uncategorized
Today my Facebook feed has been crammed with people chattering about and linking to The New York Post’s outing of one of their own, as the blogger behind the controversial 300Sandwiches.com. The blogger is freelance stringer, Stephanie Smith, about whom the...
by messienessie_62pahm | Feb 20, 2012 | Live, Uncategorized
For those of you fairly new to this blog, you may not know, that I work as a full-time freelance writer, outside of this little cooking blog. As such, I am often called upon to review restaurants, books or movies. Because of this, when I started GF over a year...
by messienessie_62pahm | Feb 8, 2012 | Live, Uncategorized
As part of the Build a Better Me Healthy Blogging Challenge, I have been trying my best to cut down on carbs in my diet (including baked goods and chocolate– though I have to admit, I haven’t been doing so well on the chocolate front!) Carbs and Gluten...
by messienessie_62pahm | Feb 1, 2012 | Live, Uncategorized
We love Buffalo wings at my house. When my hubby and I were dating we enjoyed noshing on these spicy wings often. Since then I have learned to make them at home, including some deliciously insane variations like my take on Portland restaurant Pok Pok’s Thai...
