I have had a number of people ask me when I am going to get the photo contest Flickr page up. I have uploaded many of the contest photos to a Flickr page which you can see here. I will get the rest of them uploaded later this week.

So there could be no cries of a rigged contest, I asked my very independent 14-year-old daughter to draw the names from a hat. With no further delay, the winners are: Congratulations winners! Catagory A: Panda Shot 1st prize Wald Woody Basket: Scott W                       2nd prize Planet Bike Superflash Blaze 1 watt light set: Casey M                      3rd [...]

In honor of the bicycle film shorts at the Bicycle Film Festival tonight I give you a cool video from Michele Lugaresi. See you at the Times Cinema.

I’ve seen roasted chick peas all over the internet for awhile now and have been wanting to try them.  I love chick peas in salads, hummus, or straight out of the can, so I had no problem imagining I would love them roasted. Not only were they a great crunchy snack to munch on, but you can [...]

If you love coconut you will absolutely love this moist and delicious coconut quick bread. If you like coconut, you will absolutely love this moist and delicious coconut quick bread. There are many food blogs I love to visit that are both mouth-watering and inspiring.  One of these blogs is from Kathy at Polwig.  If [...]

For reasons I can’t quite identify, I’ve become a little obsessed with fizzy water this summer. In my efforts to drink less beer, it tends to be a better substitute than non-fizzy water. And my fizzy water of choice, Perrier, comes in wonderfully shaped, curvy green bottles that make my packaging-obsessed self happy. I prefer [...]

This past Christmas, my sister-in-law bought David’s Cookie Play Dough from a school fundraiser for my children.  The tubs of this fun colored cookie dough have been in the freezer at her house because on Christmas day we forgot to bring them home with us.  Luckily they can be frozen for up to a year.  [...]

I call it Pistachio Cake while the masses call it “Watergate Cake”.  You can do a search online and find it pretty much everywhere, mostly the same recipe, sometimes with a little twist, but nothing too far off the original.  Was there even an original?  Did it really begin during Watergate?  Haven’t researched it but [...]

My children love Cheese Quesadillas.  They love them so much they eat them quicker than I can make them.  By the time I’m throwing the next one in the pan, the first one has already been scarfed down. Since my pantry is a little bare now, and since I had all the ingredients to make [...]

Tonight’s bike-in movie is 2 Seconds.  I saw it a few years ago and it is pretty decent.  It has both mountain biking and courier appeal.  The movie is in French with subtitles (at least it was when I saw it) and filmed in Canada. Bike in movies are shown in the Media Garden next to the [...]