Thursday, October 18, 2012

Pairings, Food and Funny

As an update to my last post, we were successful in making our our Kickstarter goal! Thanks again to everyone who contributed! With the money we raised we shot all six episodes and have completed post production. What I'm leading up to is...

Pairings has become a reality and you can now watch the finished show! 

Check us out on Koldcast's brand new Food & Cooking channel. Although most food related shows are reality, like cooking shows, we are one of the first fictional food-themed comedies. And thanks to Koldcast, we have garnered an impressive amount of views with our first two episodes. 

Pairings  is about Allan Wallace, a young, digital professional who has not had much luck with women. His close knit group of family and friends convince him that showing off his cooking skills to his dates will get him better luck. Allan follows their advice and is pleasantly surprised by the results.

We have truly tried to appeal to everyone with our fun little story involving nerds, food, women and family. You can check out the website for Pairings at Paringstheseries.com. There you can find all of the available episodes to watch, recipes for each of the featured food items in the show, as well as details about the cast and crew members and of course our press information.

Please check out the show and share it with your friends and family!

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Perfect "Parings"

It has been a tremendously long time since I have posted a blog. But that's what happens when you get busy and preoccupied.
Not to worry, most of that preoccupied time has been spent on another food related project! This other food related project is none other than a script that Ed (husband) and I wrote together for a web series.

And how is that food related you ask? A major focus of the plot and characters is FOOD!


Pairings will be a food focused, fictional comedy for web television. We believe that in this environment of foodies and the popularity of cooking, a fictional show that features sexy food will be well received! But in order for us to bring it from the page to a monitor or smart-device near you, we need you're help.

Yes, we are asking you and anyone you have ever known to help support our project via Kickstarter. And to compensate you for your hard earned cash we have some delicious rewards (including the cookies pictured here)!

I thank you in advance for checking us out, donating and passing this along to friends and family!

Sunday, April 24, 2011

New Blog: So Delicious, So Affordable

The whole reason for me writing this blog was based around the delicious dinners my husband Ed makes; it is the thing I look forward to all day. We are also people on a budget, so our feasts must be modestly priced. Thus was born, 5ive Dollar Feasts!
Check out our new, regularly updated blog! Ed does the writing, recipe creation, and cooking and I supply the photography and the taster's palate! 
Read the blog at 5iveDollarFeasts and like our Facebook page www.facebook.com/fivedollarfeasts.

Monday, August 9, 2010

Battle Cookie

This weekend the hubby and I went head to head in Battle Cookie. I have been going through recipes to print in the next newsletter I layout for work. I work for a non-profit that inspires hope in people with kidney disease. If you are on dialysis you have to follow a strict and bizarre diet. Renal patients are always looking for new recipes so we did our research and came up with some cookie ideas.
Ed made Gooey Caramel Cookies with butterscotch chips. People on the renal diet can't have much potassium or phosphorus therefore no chocolate or raisins or peanut butter (or a ton of other things). I made Crispy Butterscotch cookies with cream of wheat cereal.
I am cookied out!

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Waffles & Beer & Snails, oh yum!


Because I am the slowest person ever to post photos I will be posting food photos of our Europe trip for years to come!
The other day I was really craving a Belgium waffle. Not the kind you eat for breakfast with strawberries and whipped cream, powdered sugar and maple syrup but a real one. The kind you buy from a window or street vendor in Belgium where you get just powdered sugar on if anything because the sticky bread is already super sweet with a slight carmelized crunch on the outside, and it is still warm from being cooked in the iron....mmmm. I had 3 waffles throughout our Belgium stay, this one was the second best and was bought from a window stand in a French-Belgium city south of Brussels.

After we went on a hike through the French-Belgium countryside, got lost in a cow paster, and passed a group of high school aged kids on a field trip (the only other people we saw on the trails) we were thirsty. Enter Belgium beer. Believe me, this was not our first beers in Belgium, maybe more like our 10th or 12th. I just find it interesting that each beer has its own glass it is served in. It seems like it is considered a sin if you don't serve it in its designated glass. Each bar or restaurant must have a whole special room just to store all of the different types of glasses for each beer they serve.

We returned to Paris a little earlier than we expected which gave us a great opportunity to go back to the last restaurant we ate at in Paris on our way out at the beginning of the month. We loved the lunch there so much we had to go for dinner. I went adventurous and ordered the escargot. I have tried it in the past but never ordered my own. I was very glad I did!

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Mmmm Memories


When a trip is long over and you have settled back into the daily grind of work and home the details of your trip seem distant.
It felt particularly rush to me because once we returned home there was a mad rush to make our new home livable. We lived our of our suitcases for several weeks until we found and opened the boxes of our clothes. This mad rush lead us right to Christmas when were finally had our housewarming party. And the holiday craziness lead almost to now.
I try to reflect on our travels whenever I get a moment. This time I am reflecting on our anniversary meal in Venice. Our wedding anniversary was actually on Aug. 28th, two days before leaving for our trip and one of our worst days of 2009. We had mutually decided not to get any gifts for each other. The trip and the house were our presents enough. Somewhere in the mess of the days before we left and the excitement of the beginning of our trip we made unofficial plans to celebrate our anniversary with an expensive and fancy dinner near a canal in Venice.
After our first miserable day in the city of water, canals and flooding the anniversary dinner plan did not look promising. Luckily our second of two and a half days was beautiful and inviting. We had seen two cute restaurants right next to a little canal near our hostel the night before but looked around the entire the next day for other options. Other than the really big expensive restaurants along the grand canal which did not excite us we could not find anything we liked. So we went back to the two places near our temporary home base. We could not have been more satisfied. It was beautiful and delicious. We ordered the fish. we got a kick out of them presenting us the whole, raw fish before and after cooking. Then they proceeded to delicately dish equal portions of the fish on each of our plates.
Yum! and what a beautiful place!

Friday, November 20, 2009

Missing photos

It seems quite pathetic that is has taken me this long to post any photos of our trip to Europe to demonstrate how yummy the adventure was. However, what must be taken into account are the following facts: 1) the moment we touched US soil (in Philadelphia) we were on the phone to car insurance agencies trying to work out our car situation (Ed was rear ended driving my car on 8/28, our anniversary, a day and a half before moving out of our apartment and leaving the country for a month. The car was totaled but he was fine). 2) The house we bought with Ed's brother had not closed the entire month we were gone. Therefore we were homeless for a day after returning. the house closed the following day. 3) We moved into a vacant house that needed a good amount of repairs which we have been working on diligently. Ed has but a TON of work into the new place! 4) I had to get a new car, see fact number one. 5) On top of all of this I had to return to daily work. Okay, my excuses are out there...now for some photos.
After our picnic we posed in front of the Eiffel Tower, from left: our friend Kevin, Ed, me.
Ed and Kevin discuss meeting at the Louvre the next morning while enjoying hot chocolate and a beer and waiting for the rain to pass.Kevin stares at my dessert even though he is eating the same, exact thing. The baked apple tart thing was quite good but for the price we paid for this meal at an ubber fancy place not too far from the Lourve I was disappointed. We found better meals for less money.Speaking of better meals for (a little ) less, this was one of our best meals over all. The restraunt he is sitting in is the restaurant we "stayed above". My pest raviolis filled with pesto that was made right there in the town...OMG! Ed enjoyed his mussels too (i'm allergic so I don't dwell on them. I'm sad I can never have them again). My raviolis were followed by grilled calamari and Ed had a steak as his main course. The meal was finished off by a glass of a sweet raisin wine I can not spell or pronounce. The wine is unique to the region and really quite good, and really quite expensive. luck for us it was on the house because we were staying there!After our all day hike we got some to go food from a delicious cheap place and enjoyed the food and wine on our balcony as we watched the sun set. Gorgeous!In Florence we ate at cafe Zaza on a few recommendations. Everything was delicious but again, for the price was a little disappointed. Our meal the next day in a random hole in the wall place with only locals. The food was cheap and good!Another recommendation was made to us to climb up to the stairs by the bronze David and watch the sunset. We'll who is going to do that and not bring a bottle of wine. Truly only a few groups of people did NOT have beer or wine with them. The sunset wasn't the best but you couldn't beat the view!