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Pam Mehnert

Week 50 - Inspiration Comes In Many Forms

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert April 11, 2011

The inspiration I drew upon this week was a recipe we published from local chef Jan Kelly from the restaurant Meritage. We gave Jan a challenge of one ingredient that she needed to design a meal around, and that was kimchi. Jan of course even made the kimchi from scratch, so I figured, why don’t I try?

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Weeks 48 & 49 - From Blur To Bliss

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert March 29, 2011

We began our adventure in Santa Fe at the local farmer’s market, with the purchase of red chili powder, fresh goat cheese with green chili, German butter potatoes, farm fresh eggs, a giant bunch of rainbow chard and multi-grain bread. I was having a blast.

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Week 47 - St. Patty's Is Simple, So Do It

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert March 16, 2011

No whining, no complaining, no sniveling as the Irish say.

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Week 45 - Hamburger Help Her (Recipe)

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert March 1, 2011

Look at me, all proud of my pasta. This from the girl who has been resenting it since the last failed batch a few meals ago.

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A Year Of Inconvenience In Milwaukee Journal

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert February 27, 2011

A Year Of Inconvenience in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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Week 42 - Saving Money And Some Time

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert February 9, 2011

So here I am now with those 42 weeks behind me and only 10 more weeks to finish the year. My freezer is pretty well stocked and I have my regular routine of bread or cracker or granola baking planned out so I’m no longer in any panic for food essentials.

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Week 41 - I'm Whey Ahead Of The Game

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert January 31, 2011

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Week 40 - It's in the Dairy Air

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert January 31, 2011

And yogurt – well I really never considered making it at home since it’s a product well within the limits of my rules – however everyone was saying it’s just so darn easy and economical – so I had to try my hand at it.

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Week 39 - An Inconvenient Pantry (Part 2: Condiment Whore)

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert January 19, 2011

I had to ask some of the same questions of myself when I started this project, like is a condiment a “food” or is it a “seasoning?” Am I going to make my own mayonnaise and barbeque sauce and ketchup? Can you even make your own mustard?

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Happy New Year!

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert January 1, 2011

I’m no Betty White, but I stopped accepting the things I didn’t like and began to do something to change them.

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Week 36 - Homemade For The Holidays

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert January 1, 2011

If any time of year was ripe for reliance on convenience foods, I’m declaring that it’s the week before Christmas.

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Week 35 - Do Try This At Home

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert January 1, 2011

I can still feel the weight of the door as it opened up to reveal the sweet fragrance of sugar and spices, as well as I can still hear my grandma calling out, "I heard noise that - what are you kids up to?"

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Week 34 - A Place For Convenience Foods

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert December 20, 2010

Traveling via air is wrought with convenience stops from check-in to landing, whether it’s coffee kiosks, coolers filled with pre-wrapped sandwiches, fast food joints, or the tiny (and I mean tiny) bags of pretzels you get on the airplane.

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Week 32 - Ever So Thankful!

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert December 3, 2010

I’m here to tell you that having a non-traditional side like I had this year, caused me to think fondly about all the foods I’m truly thankful for, convenient or not.

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Week 31 - Say Yes To Turkey Leftovers

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert December 3, 2010

I submitted the recipe to one of my favorite recipe websites, 12 Tomatoes, and it won their Thanksgiving recipe contest for which I won a gift card to Williams Sonoma! You can check out that recipe here.

http://12tomatoes.com/2010/11/thanksgiving-recipe-contest-winners.html

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Week 30 - The Price of Convenience

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert December 3, 2010

For a while now I’ve been meaning to do a comparison of a number of the foods I now make from scratch, with their ready-to-eat counterparts...

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Week 29 - My Cheating Heart And Some Chili Atonement

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert November 10, 2010

I cheated - oh yes I did – in fact I cheated two days in a row. And while I felt a bit guilty at the time I would have either lost my sanity or gone hungry had I not allowed myself the choice of convenience foods.

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Week 27 - Did I Mention There Were Dishes?

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert October 25, 2010

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Week 26 - Half Way There

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert October 19, 2010

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Week 25 - Tomatillos; The Gift That Keeps On Giving

A Year of Inconvenience
By Pam Mehnert October 11, 2010
That’s my story for week 25 – unexpected tomatillos. We believed the small batch of salsa in week 18 would be our only batch, since somewhere around week 20 or 21, said tomatillo plant was “gleaned” by other friends.
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