Smith Bites — Food That Connects Us

OUR CHICKEN FARMER

August 4, 2010

These are a few of the happy chickens down the road who supply our eggs.

Musical pairing – Blueberry Hill by Elton John August. It’s now August. And at the end of this week, I’ll be boarding a plane that will fly me to Pennsylvania to meet a group of people I’ve only ‘met’ on Twitter to attend a one-day blogging workshop. And I’ll be flying without The Professor – [...]

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52 Sundays; august 1, 2010

August 1, 2010

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JOE’S BUTCHER SHOP & FISH TACOS

July 26, 2010

I found Joe’s Butcher Shop and Fish Market about a year and a half ago and my menus have never been the same. Indianapolis Monthly published an entire issue for food lovers (that’s me) on where to find all the good stuff Indianapolis has to offer – and there on page 63, was Joe’s; I [...]

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52 Sundays; july 25, 2010

July 25, 2010

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I’M NOT DUTCH, BUT THIS BABY IS!

July 22, 2010

Musical pairing – Easy by Commodores Twitter is full of comments about life being crazy busy right now and I must confess, I find myself in the same boat. Where are the lazy days of summer that songwriters wax poetic about ‘cuz they sure ain’t hangin’ around here – we are running from one forest [...]

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DR. DOM CARISTI & AFFOGATO – NOT YOUR AVERAGE CUP OF JOE

July 19, 2010

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN – Smith Bites Interview with Dr. Dom Caristi I recently had the pleasure of sitting down for a chat with Dr. Dom Caristi, one of The Professor’s colleagues at Ball State University; Dom and his wife, Kim are also good friends of ours and they fed us a wonderful dinner that [...]

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52 Sundays; july 18, 2010

July 18, 2010

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A NOT-SO-TEXAS COOKIE SHEET CAKE

July 15, 2010

Musical pairing – If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d Have Baked A Cake by Eileen Barton This post is a labor of love, and by that I mean that I count myself very fortunate to have married into one of the best families ever – and that includes my cousins on the Green side: [...]

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2010 . . . A MID-SUMMER GARDEN PIZZA

July 14, 2010

I’m having one of those ‘Rip Van Winkle’ moments because I just cannot fathom that I’m actually using the words, ‘mid-summer.’ Then I look at the calendar and remember that the temperatures have been above 90 for the past couple of weeks and our gardens do indeed, remind me that it really is mid-summer – [...]

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