Paula Does Pasta

So are you dying to know who won? It is a pretty nifty cookbook after all! Well since I don’t want anyone to flog me here goes…According to the ever so handy dandy random.org magic eight ball *drumroll please* the winner of the “Secrets of a Skinny Chef” cookbook is …     (more…)

I am in LURVE with this product! It’s called the foodpod. It’s a boil/blanch/steam/drain/silicone pod! I know it’s a little crazy looking, but look what it does… (ehem click on the video)

Now, seriously, how cool is that? Yes, I’ve ordered my foodpod HERE & can’t wait to get it! Wonder what I’ll make first  in it? My head is already spinning with ideas.

What would you do with it?

I was in Atlanta last weekend at a fabulous Macaron class taught by the Macaron Queen herself, Tartelette (which I’ll be posting about over at bell’alimento very soon, patience my little pretties) and during one of our interludes between mixing & baking & noshing & chatting, I joined in on a conversation going on between some of the evah so fabulous girls …

I’m going to paraphrase but the conversation went something like (keeping in mind I shaunteed over mid conversation)…”Tyra can suck it”…(immediately I knew I liked this girl LOL) “other than her smizing”… Sma, who WHAT?… What the… SMIZING? Then I was let in on this new to me, but apparently not to anyone else word.. SMIZING…Apparently Smizing was made up by the intellectual genius Tyra herself & is her coined term for “smiling with your eyes” or SMIZING…To demonstrate this, we were given a crash course in smizing by the evah so lovely Jennifer (who has some of the most fabulous hair evah). She was working it! I only wish I had pics or a video because she had everyone in tears! (more…)

You know when you’re meeting someone for the first time how inevitably they ask you what do you do? Such a loaded question, no? Well if I’m in a group of people someone else will usually answer for me (probably because I’m shoving food into my mouth. Who knows? LOL). “Oh, she cooks!” Or,  “she does Pasta!” And it’s true. Yep I do Pasta! BUT I do a lot more than pasta ; )

And, well it just didn’t seem right to put all of that “extra” stuff floating around in my little head over on my food blog, bell’alimento. SO I thought I’d create a new little place! So, Paula Does Pasta was born! Yep it’s a total play on words & NO I will not be naked here. I know what some of you might be thinking LOL! (more…)