JTV and Justopia Milestones with Pie Pictures

Again

I am prompted to write about JTV and the announcement of all time high viewer counts — again. I worked late tonight, so there was no cooking and no food photos. Instead, let’s chat about the 101,000 simultaneous viewers on JTV. This is the blog post that communicated the milestone. What I [...]

Justopian Visitors and a Brief Recipe

Jane and Emily
I had visitors for dinner tonight. Real live people, in the flesh, to join me in cooking, dining, cleaning and just generally having fun. My sister, Jane, my niece, Emily and I made a simple, yet DEElicious dinner. Steak, Potatoes, Soy-Dipped Radishes and Steamed Broccoli.

Back to the Food and Tomorrow’s Justopia.com Visitor Reminder!

Cookies!

Rather than cooking dinner last night, I baked cookies. I forgot to bring my lunch to work with me, so I came home to a DEElicious dinner of the leftover slow cooked lamb shank, Israeli couscous and cauliflower with bread crumbs and decided that I’d make some Chocolate Dipped Macaroons. They are very [...]

More Television and a Different Kind of Muse

What’s Next You Ask and Where’s the Food?!

Just when it seemed as though no spectacle could top the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, in less than 24 hours we have the Democratic Convention to draw our attention. No matter whom you favor for president, the conventions are likely to provide you with something riveting to [...]

Couldn’t I Just Tell You, it was Just Utopia for Me!

A Dream Lives on Forever
A friend and I went to see our musical idol last night. For 33 years now I’ve been a devoted Todd Rundgren fan and recently, when a coworker told me Todd was playing at Wolf Trap, just a few miles down the road in a beautiful outdoor venue, I got [...]

A Surprise Candidate and Another DEElicious Summer Dinner

Before the Food
You might want to check this out. Even Justin.tv can’t compete with this. The only place to get on this bandwagon is at Justopia.com! Thank you Peekers for discovering this news clip for us!

A Perfect Friday Night Dinner
The bread recipe was courtesy of The Smitten Kitchen. She is one [...]

The Whole Foods Contest, a Tesla Coil and a Surprise Contest!

In Food
I just sent out a Tweet that I’ve created the recipe for the Whole Foods Market, Food Blogger Budget Recipe Challenge! I will work on refining it this weekend so that I can submit it before the deadline. I re-read the contest rules again and it looks like they are contacting food bloggers [...]

Customer Service in the Age of Microblogging (Customer) Service With a :)

Progress
As long time readers and viewers of the Justopia Cooks broadcast know, my background is Customer Service. Whether it be in sales or my 12 year tenure with AOL, I’ve spent my career serving customers. Don’t we all in some form or another? Sometimes it’s internal customers, other times it’s external, but [...]

Breakfast With Justopia

Matzoh Brei

I woke up hungry this morning. Not a usual occurrence. I think it’s probably because I went to bed thinking about making matzoh brei. I have had a box in the pantry since Passover and thought that if I didn’t use it, it would need to go in the garbage soon.

Competition

But Why?

A coworker brought fresh tomatoes and patty pan squash from her garden to share with us today. I can’t wait to use them this week!
I’m confused. I was surfing around the JTV main page yesterday to see if I could figure out how the removal of the Channel Bar helps in page [...]

It’s About the Food!

Grilling Night
I was in a steak mood when I woke up this morning. I had lots of good produce in the fridge to draw from to make one DEElicious dinner! I have more on my plate in terms of work that needs to get done, than there are hours in the day, so [...]

Shrimp Franpi? More Phelps Phrenzy, A Stronger Anthem and the Name that Exotic Food Contest Week 5

Dinner
How many of these names can I come up with? Shrimp Franpi is not as good as Frandarin or Franchurian Duck, but it works, kinda. Dinner was DEElicious though. It was simple on a day that I didn’t have time to prepare for tonight’s meal and Scampi with Grilled Eggplant and Pasta [...]

Living the Justopian Life

undefined

“Frandarin Duck”? “Franchurian Duck”? “Frantastic Duck”? and GREAT Story Telling

Duck, Duck, Goose!
Have you ever had duck? Have you ever made duck? I used to love duck, specifically Duck with Bing Cherry Sauce. My mom is not a big fan of fowl, but my dad likes duck too so once in a while she would spend a day in the kitchen whipping [...]

Ramblings, the Phelps Phrenzy and a Business Idea!

No End in Sight

I am trying to remember a time when the world Blog wasn’t in my lexicon, when I didn’t have countless pages of words to read, written by strangers and ideas and thoughts swimming around in my head that clamor for the exit so that they can make it down to my fingertips, [...]