But go pop over to Foodwhirl and see what’s cooking there, to tide you over!

Recently on Foodwhirl!

Baked Butternut Squash Macaroni and Cheese

I love butternut squash. I make risotto with it, add it to beef stew, or often simply bake it on it’s own. So it was only a matter of time before I tried it with my baked macaroni and cheese! The squash is so smooth in this dish and makes it seem even cheesier…

Strawberry Curd

Strawberries are finally in season locally, which means they’re once again affordable and fresh.  My four-year-old LOVES them, so they are always on-hand at our house this time of year.

Coleslaw

Here’s some trivia for you:  The term “coleslaw” arose in the 20th century as a partial translation from the Dutch term “koolsla”, a shortening of “koolsalade”, which means “cabbage salad”.   In the US, most coleslaw is made with a mayonaise-based dressing, but this is a recipe that has been a fave..

Traditional Deviled Eggs

One of the things I love about Easter is eggs!   And what better to do with hard boiled eggs than deviled eggs.   We are going to an Easter/Birthday Party today and this is one of the dishes I’m taking.  Everybody loves deviled eggs and I’m sure they will disappear quickly!

Granny’s Chocolate Bar Cake

This cake is my Grandmother’s recipe and we always had it for Thanksgiving and Christmas, but it’s Easter and it’s also my man’s birthday and I needed to bake a cake for the party.  He’s a chocoholic and I knew this cake would fit the bill.

Simple and Delish: Easter Oreos

We don’t always have time to prepare a from scratch perfect treat… Here’s a fun and simple Easter goodie that looks as good as it tastes.  Because really, can you go wrong with Oreos? From The Picky Palate: These colorful Easter Oreos are a must for your Easter table if you ask me!!

Here comes Peter Cottontail

This cake holds so many memories for me.  As a child, we made a version of this every year at Easter.  What I love about it is the simplicity of the design – even a child can pull this off.  You don’t have to be a professional to make this simple little bunny shaped cake!

Easter Brunch: How about a Quiche?

Here are a few ideas! Mini Veggie Quiches at Christina EATS Quiche Lorraine Scones at Good Life Eats Pear and Camembert Quiche at The Creative Pot Ham, Asparagus, and Gruyère Quiche at My Kitchen Addiction Or this one, a Rosti Quiche… I love the idea of using potatoes…

Spotlight – Chinese Tea Leaf Eggs

Browsing the webs for more interesting egg ideas, I wandered across this by NoobCook.  If you’re not going to go for dying the outsides of eggshells this year, perhaps this would be a fun and tasty alternative!  I’ve seen these before and they always struck me as so beautiful…

April Fool: tromp l’oeil Eggs & Toast!

Happy April Fool… Do you have any fun April Fool Food ideas like this one from Eggs on Sunday? See below for the scoop on what it really is, and the link to the How To! …that are really meyer lemon pudding, meyer lemon curd and toasted cinnamon cake slices!

One of my favorite web destinations, Dollar Store Crafts, has a cute tutorial on making a placemat advent calendar.

Here’s a tutorial at Craftster to make lovely tile coasters… what a nice gift!

Pretty Decoupage Candle Holders at Craft Stylish

Crafting in a Green World has a tutorial to make felted acorns.  Neat!

This should have been included in Dabbled’s Christmas ornament roundup, but I missed it, so go check out One Pretty Thing’s Christmas Ornament Roundup

And just for fun…  You’ll never use scrubbing bubbles again! (at Superpunch)

Make Slime! The Photo Tutorial.

Click through to see all the flickr pics.

1. Slime ingredients, 2. Stir the Borax and water to dissolve, 3. Pouring glue, 4. Water + glue + paint for color, 5. Pour the Borax solution into the glue mixture, 6. Stir, watch it clump up, 7. Pour off the excess water and check out your slime!, 8. Initial slime, 9. Ball it, 10. Squeeze it, 11. Ewwww…, 12. Punch it

See the full tutorial and directions here..

Enjoy the gooey fun!

I think that the thing that I love the most about the internet is that it gives us  all the chance to be curators in our own little museums. We, bloggers anyway, are afforded the chance to trot out whatever collections that we deem hip, cool, or important without having to worry about grant money, a board of directors, or even a coherent direction to our posts. It also lets the public speak directly to the person in charge of the museum and that’s pretty empowering. Participatory processes always foster a greater sense of engagement and that’s never a bad thing.

So, in that spirit, I thought I’d share a few sites that pull this trick off particularly well. First up…Dark Roasted Blend.

The photo above comes from a recent post that features vintage photos of flight attendants. Not your thing? Not to worry. DRB has some amazing posts on Sci-Fi, retro-futurism, emerging technologies, steampunk, weird advertisements and tons more. I’m sure you’ll find something you like. I always do.

Next, I highly recommend Judsonn Frondorf’s blog called AckAckAck . It’s a list ordered daily dose of what Judson thinks is cool. From politics to art to just plain weirdness, ackackack has it all.

Lastly, I’ll turn you on to Web Urbanist and it’s sister site, Web Ecoist . Both are design blogs of sorts. Web urbanist deals with urban design, travel, art and architecture, while Web Ecoist is more concerned with sustainable methods and green technologies. Both are fascinating and always have something of value to read. (The pictures above come from an article on rainforest teetop walks.)

Being that I visit upwards of twenty blogs a day, I could go on and on here. I won’t though, because now it’s your turn. Know of a particularly interesting blog or website that fits into this “mini-museum” category? Put it in the comments and share the love. Let us know what it’s about and why you like it. After all, that’s what the web is for.

Cheers,

Paul from DudeCraft

Sooo, I was subscribed through Google Reader and wasn’t seeing the updates (after you requested, via twitter, I look)
You asked me to subscribe (follow your blog) on Blogger and I did that, but the updates still weren’t there.
I was getting antsy about not seeing your blog posts, so I just went into Google Reader, hit the add subscription button, and added “dabbled.org” (I think)
The address shows up in the reader as “http://dabbled.org/feed”
I’m having NO problems now getting your posts in Google Reader. I’m not sure what the problem was before, but the address Google Reader had before for your feeds was “http://www.dabbled.org/feeds/posts/default”

So, it sounds like if you use Google Reader you need to just go back in and re-subscribe to Dabbled.org to start receiving feeds again. I’m leaving my contest open to help spread the word to my missing readers for a bit longer, so go enter now, pretty please! You can link back to this post to enter.

Recently at Dabbled..

Grab the Feed! http://feeds.feedburner.com/Dabbled/

It’s not finished yet, but I set up this page (which looks pretty much like the old Dabbled site) to tide you over until I get all the spiffy new stuff up. Let me know if you see any issues or broken links, and you can feel free to poke around the rest of the site, but it’s not anywhere near done yet.

Enjoy!

(oh, and leave a comment, so I know that’s working too!)

Oh, and we are planning to hit Australia next month. Any readers from Down Under who want to share any travel tips?

Tomorrow I think i might actually try the port of Dabbled to WordPress. My local installation that i’ve been playing with can’t do everything I want, so I may just get it out there, and clean it up once it’s out on the web. But be warned, it won’t be perfect for a while. I expect that some links won’t work, and some picture prettiness will not be quite there. But the big thing is, if you’re reading this on a feed or through being a ‘follower’ and you don’t see anything for the next few days, then do come directly over to Dabbled.org and make sure you’re still subscribed. I’m trying to do this seamlessly, but i haven’t ever done this, so I have no idea how bad it will be!

If you see things that don’t work, do email me (dot at dabbled dot org) cuz I do want to know!

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