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And the Winner Is…Kansas Day 3

The final day of the California Raisin Bread Competition. What an exciting day. I won’t tell you about being awake at 3:30 am. Nor will I tell you how I forgot my socks and one of the judges told me I had better get my socks and that Ted had to save the day pertaining to both socks and pans. Yes, pans. Ted had to get to Wal-Mart and purchase four 9X13 cake pans. The AIB didn’t have the 11 X 15 I needed (with 2” sides) and neither did Wal-Mart. I made the best out of what we could get. [...]

By Joanne|2010-10-17T20:07:29-04:00October 17, 2010|Life, Quick Meals|18 Comments

AIB: Kansas Day 2

Morning Activities: Pre - AIB The bed in our room is a perfect bed. It’s firm with a great big fluffy down mattress cover. In all that feathery comfort, my body still insisted on waking up at it’s usual time, which is an hour earlier in Manhattan, Kansas and too early to even “catch the worm”. By 4:45, I gave up the struggle and got up. Our room is one door down from the fitness room (Talk About Convenience!) which made it easy to toss on a few clothes, take a few steps and hop on the treadmill for a [...]

By Joanne|2010-10-15T22:46:00-04:00October 15, 2010|Food thoughts, Life|5 Comments

The Bread Bakers Assemble: Kansas Day 1

On the plane(s): We went UP from Syracuse and DOWN to LaGuardia. UP from LaGuardia and DOWN to Dallas/Ft.Worth. UP from Dallas/Ft. Worth and DOWN to Kansas. All that up and down had my head spinning since I’m fighting a cold bug. We ate a quick lunch at D/Ft.: TOFUSION at UFood Grill. I like the theme, although due to extreme hunger, pretty much anything would have worked for me at that point. Being so famished from only an apple, banana and yogurt since the early am, the tofu, veggies and rice went down in a flash. We arrived in [...]

By Joanne|2010-10-14T23:10:35-04:00October 14, 2010|Quick Meals|11 Comments