The Rest of the Previous Post...

For some reason, my comments were deleted when I posted the link for the Chocolate Adventure Contest. I entered a couple of years ago in a last minute, spur-of-the-moment decision that unleased a weekend of insanity on my home. Actually had some contact with one of the judges afterwards, who indicated I'd narrowly missed out on placing with the semi-finalists. I was pretty pleased, all things considered. It was my first contest. Had good intentions last year, but let time get away from me. This year, with the cupcake theme, I've been consulting with my wife, Gina. She's more of a baker than I am. I've got three working recipes. Just have to get ingredients together and start baking. I'm going to be tormenting my coworkers with a lot of cupcakes in December, I suspect. Contests are fun, and what do most people have to lose. Might get lucky and win some prizes...

The Chocolate Adventure Contest!...

Blackberry Lemonade...

...is really tasty! Ran across a recipe for it a couple of days ago. We had a jar of fresh squeezed lemon juice (from a SoCal friend's lemon tree...she shipped us a box earlier this year) in the freezer and some blackberries, and I just had to make some. Thoroughly muddled blackberries, water, lemon juice and simple syrup, mint optional. Yummm...

I Realized the Other Day...

...while viewing the changes a friend had just made in her blog's layout that this blog didn't really feel like it fit me that well anymore. I wanted to use it. Meant to. And yet I wasn't. So I've decided to change things. The whole "Sun Bear" thing just doesn't work for me. It'll just be my kitchen from now on. I love to eat and cook food from all over the world. I'll be wandering far-and-wide here, I hope, looking into food that interests me. Feel free to come along, to drop by and break bread with me. We'll explore foods both familiar and new. Food is something that we can all share with one another. Food defies man's foolish boundaries...