A New Old Member

Let's all welcome back Marthe from Culinary Delights. She used to be a CEiMB'er, and we have her to thank for the pick of Portobello Lasagna Rollups and Easy Tomato Sauce. She has decided to rejoin the group.

Here is some info about Marthe and her blog:

I'm a soon to be 30-year old secretary, who also helps out in a restaurant as a waitress for about 1 or 2 nights a month.
My blog is all about baking (Tuesdays with Dorie) and cooking, recently I've decided I need to lose weigth so last week I started Weight Watchers.
I love to spend time with my family, Border Collie Scott and cat Senna. Other than baking my new found hobby since about one month is sewing.
I'm looking forward to making all kind of yummy receipes with all of you at Craving Ellie in my Belly.

We're all happy to have you back Marthe!

New Member

Hi All,

We have a new member, Farah, from Confessions of a Novice Baker.

Here is a little tidbit about her:
"I'm a mum of two boys living as expatriates in Singapore. Now that I'm not working anymore I'm able to spend more time doing things i love, baking and cooking!"

Welcome Farah! We are all happy to have you in the group :)

Tell All - Greek Style Stuffed Peppers

How is everyone faring with the stuffed peppers?

I noticed that the cooking time varies by 20 minutes between the recipe in the book (75 minutes) and the online recipe (55 minutes). Not sure if this is a typo or Food Network wanted to shorten the time on their website to make the recipe more attractive. (I am leaning toward the latter). Either way, don't forget to plan accordingly for the long bake time!

Some New Stuff

Hi All:

Thanks so much for the comments and suggestions over the last few days.

We love Andrea's idea from You Eat Now to open up the recipe selection to anything that is on the Food Network website, in addition to the book. I have amended the rules to reflect that, so start trolling around http://www.foodtv.com. If you choose a recipe that is not in the book, please provide the link to the recipe when you email me your pick.

We are also on board with Leslie's suggestion from Lethally Delicious for some shameless cross promotion for CEIMB. I am certainly not above shameless self promotion! Many of us are TWD bakers or Daring Bakers, or both, and I think that this group is a great counter balance to the recipes we make for those groups. Feel free (but in no way obligated) to make that known in some of your TWD or DB posts, or any of your posts for that matter. While I love that our group here is so small and close knit, I think having some new members would also be fun and good for everyone.

We are also working on some other ideas that we will let everyone know about as we develop them further.

See everyone soon for Greek Style Stuffed Peppers :)

CEIMB Under New Management

Hi Everyone,

Sara here from Imafoodblog. You may have seen that our
fearless leader,Natalie of What’s for Supper, recently
posted that she was looking for someone to take over CEIMB
so that she could focus on other things.

I am excited to announce that I have volunteered to do that,
along with my wonderfully charming and handsome boyfriend
Nick, who will be doing most of the webmastery stuff. (We need
him, because I call it webmastery stuff).

I think we all owe a collective thanks to Natalie for doing
such a great job managing this group until now, and I hope
she will still participate in CEIMB when she can.
THANKS NATALIE!!

You may see some minor site changes as we play around with
the layout and settings. We are also trying to come up with some
ideas for how we can publicize this group better and make membership beneficial for everyone involved. We are open to any ideas that you might have to improve the site and the group in general. We will post updates on any changes and hope to add some new features to the site/group. Please sign up for the feeds (either in a reader or via email - new links already on the page) if you would like to stay abreast of the (hopefully) exciting new stuff!

Thanks for participating and I hope everyone enjoyed their fish tacos
this week, courtesy of yours truly.

Sara & Nick
http://www.imafoodblog.com

Tell All - Fish Tacos with Chipotle Cream

How is this one going for everyone?

Anyone?

Want to take over?

I explained HERE.

I just need to focus on other things at this time. I will continue to manage this site for all you Ellie members until someone else contacts me to take over.