
Poor Girl Gourmet Happy New Year, everyone! I'm starting mine with a request: Would you be so kind as to go to this link: http://2010.bloggies.com/ and nominate Poor Girl Gourmet for best food blog? You'll have to scroll to the right to get there, and must also nominate 2 other blogs for other categories. Thanks in advance!
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The tenth year of the Web's longest running blog awards. Discover the best blogs of 2010.

Poor Girl Gourmet I am an egg nog-as-ingredient addict. And you will be, too, if you try this Baked Egg Nog-Sweet Bread French Toast. Plus, it bodes well for the New Year (you'll see): http://tinyurl.com/y95d446
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If you plan to start 2010, not with an all-night booze bash, but, instead, with a civilized and refined (though possibly booze-including) brunch on New Year's Day, then I highly recommend that you make this Egg Nog-Sweet Bread French Toast to serve or take along.

Poor Girl Gourmet Okay, you might not be Swedish, but this chef gal is adorable regardless of language: http://tinyurl.com/ydovke3 - And now I know need that sleek kitchen torch, too! Plus raspberry meringue - must have raspberry meringue!

Poor Girl Gourmet Marvin Hagler gets a mention in today's blog post: Brockton Beans http://tinyurl.com/y8gnzeq
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Poor Girl Gourmet OOOOH! Excited! Eat Me Daily included the Poor Girl Gourmet cookbook on their list of favorite blog-to-book deals of 2009: http://tinyurl.com/yas7fnu YAY!
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Food blogs have been around for a good decade, at least, and food books have been around, well, pretty much forever, but it seems that it's this year that the dead-tree guys finally started paying serious ...

Poor Girl Gourmet Also, if you click through on the Share Our Season badge on this cookie post, you can donate to help end childhood hunger (and be entered to win fabu kitchen prizes as well): http://tinyurl.com/yg64gpe

Poor Girl Gourmet New blog post: Inspiration at the Providence Wintertime Farmers Market and Sweet Potato-Crystallized Ginger cookies: http://tinyurl.com/yg64gpe

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must all be fairly bored, right? Friday afternoon, waiting to leave
work? Hey, how about voting for Poor Girl Gourmet's
APPLE-CINNAMON CAKE in Bon Appetit's Blog Envy contest: vote here http://bit.ly/HuHum Thanks in advance!
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We're collecting holiday desserts from food bloggers across the country—and asking you to help us pick the best. Here's information on how to vote and how to enter your dessert in the contest.

Poor Girl Gourmet RI & Southeastern MA peeps, do your holiday shopping at Farm Fresh RI's Wintertime Farmers Market: http://tinyurl.com/yecpv3c -LOTS of great gifts for food-lovers!

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Two: My most favorite holiday cake recipe is on BonAppetit.com for their "blog
envy" bake-off contest. Please go vote (you do have to set up an
account, but it's quick): http://tinyurl.com/ykhc4ka - it's the Apple-Cinnamon Cake (I'll be forever grateful!)
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We're collecting holiday desserts from food bloggers across the country—and asking you to help us pick the best. Here's information on how to vote and how to enter your dessert in the contest.

Poor Girl Gourmet Okay, a couple of things going on here. One: New post - my most favorite holiday cake: http://tinyurl.com/ydsa8wx

Poor Girl Gourmet Just sent final comments on Poor Girl Gourmet cookbook to my editor, got up to make bread (this is how I've decided to keep myself awake for all 4 quarters of the Patriots' game tonight), then decided final notes on first cookbook deserved a mention. WOW.

Poor Girl Gourmet Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, everyone! What are you all up to/making?

Poor Girl Gourmet If you like crunchy stuffing, this is not for you. New post - Mom's Mushy Stuffing: http://tinyurl.com/yzrzyqy
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There are some foods from our youth, regardless of how darned sophisticated one's palate becomes later in life, that simply cannot be replaced, especially at the holidays. My mother's mushy stuffing is firmly in this category.

Poor Girl Gourmet If the Pumpkin-Maple Tiramisu only takes 23 minutes to make, then why did it take me 2 days to write the post? Ahhh, don't answer that. Delicious and lighter than pie for carb-gorgers who still want Thanksgiving dessert: http://tinyurl.com/ybr7tgh
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This dish graced our Thanksgiving table a few years ago in its original form as Epicurious' Super-Simple Pumpkin Tiramisu. Man, those Epi people don't lie. Super-simple, indeed. I've started doing time trials on the making of this tiramisu, and on the last round, from the time I placed my stand mixe...

























