The winner of this beautiful 9-inch knife from New West KnifeWorks is Adam, whose favorite thing to eat over the holidays is Mac and Cheese.  Congratulations, Adam! Continue reading →

At least I hope everything is back to normal.  If you’re just tuning in, this post will explain everything.

I think I have all of the recipes restored now and the knife contest is officially starting over.  Please visit the original post and leave a new comment if you would like to be in the drawing for the 9-inch chef’s knife from New West KnifeWorks.

Those of you subscribed to Pinch My Salt through an RSS feed or via e-mail, you will probably receive extra copies of several of my posts.  Sorry!  Everything will be back to normal starting tomorrow and hopefully it will seem like all of this was just a bad dream.

(Now scroll down for lots of yummy food!)

Some of you might have noticed that the last eleven days worth of blog posts/recipes have completely disappeared from Pinch My Salt.  Due to human error at my web hosting provider, the last eleven days of my blog have been completely erased.  I will obviously be switching to a new provider soon, please let me know if you have any recommendations. Continue reading →

EDIT: Due to an error with my server, the original version of this post along with all of your comments disappeared!  Talk about bad timing!!  The only choice I have is to start from the beginning and ask you to please leave a new comment if you wish to enter the the contest for the knife giveaway.  All the same rules apply, but I am extending the deadline to allow everyone to catch up to the new development!  Thank you, and sorry for the last minute change!

Remember those gorgeous knives from New West KnifeWorks that I gave away last September?  It’s happening again!  But this time, I have the pleasure of giving away a beautiful 9-inch Chef’s Knife from their Phoenix Line.  And although I’m not keeping it, I just had to test this baby out before giving it away to one of you lucky, lucky people. Continue reading →

Please take a moment to think about the men and women, husbands and wives, sons and daughters that are serving our country today, and those that have served in the past.  I wish I could hug my veteran today, but he, like so many of them, doesn’t get to take this holiday.

So, this one goes out to all you, around the world.

Thanks for your service!

Just a quick heads-up that I will be a guest on a radio show tomorrow morning!  The Gourmet Club, a local internet radio food show, will be featuring San Diego food bloggers this week!  Tune in on your computer to hear me talking about food, blogging, and the San Diego food scene with a couple of other San Diego bloggers that you probably know: Alice from Alice Q. Foodie and Amanda from What We’re Eating. The show will be hosted by Caron Golden of San Diego Foodstuff and Maureen Clancy of Matters of Taste and is sure to be a lot of fun!

The Gourmet Club airs this Wednesday from 11:00 a.m. til noon (PST), but if you aren’t able to listen live on your computer, the show will also be available as a podcast.  For more details about tomorrow’s show, visit San Diego Foodstuff.

And, if you have specific questions you’d like to ask us, leave a comment on Caron’s blog before 9:30 a.m. tomorrow morning or call in to the show live at 866.818.6384.

Hope you get a chance to listen!

Actually, there are two winners.  But you knew that already, right?

First of all, I want to say how thrilled I am that so many of you participated in this contest.  I read every single one of your comments and I wish that I could send a gorgeous new knife to each of you!  I am glad that I decided to select the winners randomly because I would never have been able to choose between the 329 readers who left comments!  So many sad stories and so many sad knives!

But let’s get to winners, shall we? Continue reading →

Well it’s been a while, hasn’t it?  We’re all settled in at the new house and although there’s still tons of work to do, it’s slowly shaping up and we are loving the new place more and more each day!

And now that I’m officially back to blogging, I thought I’d start things back up with a bang!  I have two gorgeous kitchen knives to give away thanks to the wonderful people at New West Knife Works.

As a food blogger, I am constantly bombarded with requests to write about new products.  For the most part, I kindly decline these offers.  But when I got an e-mail from New West Knife Works, I was instantly intrigued. Continue reading →