Zines and things – Day 202

August 29th, 2010 arrows food, writing, zine arrows 1 Comment


Written with hunger by Nichole

Much writing and editing this week has led me to the release of my sixth zine, the fourth issue in my perzine series Pieces. This one is on lucid dreaming. I think it’s pretty swank; hopefully others will agree. If anyone is interested in getting a copy of this issue, let me know by dropping [...]

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Why I will never go back to El Salto in Chesterton Indiana – Day 150

July 8th, 2010 arrows food, friends, northwest indiana, rant arrows 19 Comments


Written with a smidgen of wrath by Nichole

Tonight a good handful of us had a gathering of awesome at El Salto in Chesterton. Some of the fabulous people in attendance included @saan1911, @FoodieMamaNWI, @swedishpancake, @digitalbart, @TV_MA, @2ndwifeanne and other @grossbauer peeps. We arrived at 4:30 on a Thursday. KEEP THAT IN MIND. Not many people. We took our seats, ordered drinks (Blue [...]

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Farmers market, chocolate, Indian food, tweetups and WP themes – Day 96

May 15th, 2010 arrows friends, northwest indiana, starving artist, web design arrows No Comments


Written with a big belly by Nichole

That pretty much sums up my day right there. I took part of the day off to go to the Chesterton farmers market, and then after meeting some of my friends up there, we went to eat Indian food at Taj. Greg owed me. I don’t mind being paid in food for the little things [...]

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Finishing up Nine – Day 76

April 24th, 2010 arrows food, introspection, starving artist, writing arrows No Comments


Written with with a shovel by Nichole

I’ve been bad with the videos lately. I guess I haven’t been in a video mood for some reason. That will change next week. Promise. Laundry list for today: cleaned, finished up Nine, read more of Maus (Rahsaan was right; it is one of the best comics I’ve ever read) and made vegetarian korma, which [...]

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SOUP FOR YOU! – Day 15

February 22nd, 2010 arrows books, family, food, starving artist, video arrows 4 Comments


Written with a lot of soup by Nichole

Since I worked on Saturday, I took today to go to my parents’ house and make soup with my dad. I had a bunch of vegetable stock I made that I had to start using up, and I thought making a soup with my father would be the perfect thing. We love making soup together. [...]

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How to make homemade cheese.

July 27th, 2009 arrows food, recipes arrows 3 Comments


Written with awesome by Nichole

I wanted to try something I’ve never done before, something new and exciting and in the vein of cooking.  I’ve tired of making cakes.  Cookies.  Even different curries (and boy do I love curry).  After watching this video, I told myself, “I want to make cheese.” And so I did.  The experience was documented, sans [...]

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