http://www.hanneblank.com/blog Because The World Needed Another Blog About Cooking and Domesticity Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:28:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been giving thought to this for some time, both before and since the blogging hiatus I took this winter, and I have determined that I need to hang up my blogging spurs, such as they are. Basically, I am not cut out to be a blogger.  No matter how I ... http://www.hanneblank.com/blog/2009/04/13/bye-for-now/ I am not amused. A few days ago, as far as Amazon.com was concerned, I had written or edited five books that came up when a search on my name was run in the "all departments" search. As of today? One. Virgin: The Untouched History. Why? Because Amazon has ... http://www.hanneblank.com/blog/2009/04/12/losing-my-ran/ [caption id="attachment_258" align="aligncenter" width="614" caption="White pizzas: double-mozzarella and smoked garlic (left); herbed romano-provolone (right)"][/caption] I volunteered to make food for my Belovedary's gaming night tonight.  I decided on pizza, one of the major Geek Food Groups.  Knowing that one of the gamers prefers white pizza to red-sauce pies, I decided to ... http://www.hanneblank.com/blog/2009/04/01/advanced-geek-chow/ I promised a sauerkraut update, so this is one.  It has been fermenting now for a week, and is just barely beginning to taste as if something is going on in there, fermentation-wise.  My kitchen is pretty cool most of the time, at this time of year, so I was ... http://www.hanneblank.com/blog/2009/03/31/inner-light/ So I had a little cooking debacle yesterday, of which I wish, now, that I had stopped to snap a photo, because it was kind of Biblical in its chthonic oozy bubbling horribleness.   There is just something about the texture and movement of gently-belching batter magma -- batter that was ... http://www.hanneblank.com/blog/2009/03/30/cupcake-decoration-as-an-index-of-suitable-partnership/