Josh Ozersky at the Home and Garden Show

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Andrea

Hey gang! If you haven’t made it to the Home and Garden show yet this week, tonight would be the perfect time to go! Along with seeing all the fabulous things that are new and upcoming for the garden this year, lots of guest appearances are being made at this event.

Tonight, Josh Ozersky will be there giving a demo on making burgers. He’s a food writer (James Beard award winner!) and wrote a book all about burgers.

We love us some burgers!

He’ll be giving a demo tonight at 6pm in the Bricker Multi-Purpose Building on the Giant Eagle Home Idea Stage.

Scott and I will be there tonight, so if you go, give me a shoutout and we can meet up!

Don’t forget the Home and Garden show wraps up this Saturday! So you only have a few days left to make it over there.

For more information about the Home and Garden show, click here.

Win Tickets to 2011 Columbus Home and Garden Show

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Andrea

It’s spring time! The weather may be damp and dreary but spring is just around the corner. And that means that the Columbus Home and Garden Show is here! This year’s theme is Gardens that Rock and all things that can be done with rocks and stones for your home.

For more information, you can read a Dispatch article on it here.

Want to go?

Lucky for you that OHC is giving away tickets to the show! Good for whatever day you wish to go! I’ve got plenty of tickets to go around so I’ll be picking a few winners via random number generator.

Here’s all the rules and info:

What: FREE tickets to the Home and Garden Show

When: Feb. 26th – March 6th (Closed Feb. 28th)

Where: Ohio Expo Center

RULES:

All you have to do is comment on this post explaining why you’d like to go to the show. I’ll pick a winner on Saturday morning and announce the winners then as well.

Slow Food Columbus Presents Snowville Butter Making Class

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Andrea

Last week, Nicole emailed me asking if I wanted to attend a butter making class with her. She had an extra ticket because her mom ended up not being able to go. I have been interested in making butter for a few weeks now ever since I learned that you can freeze butter.

Did you know this? I did not. It was the one thing preventing me from making my own butter because I would have so much, I wasn’t sure what I would do with it all. Now that I can freeze butter, BRING IT!

This sister wants to learn how to churn her own butter!

I told Nicole that I would love to attend the class with her and I showed up bright and early (as early as one can be for a 1pm class) on Sunday armed with mason jars ready to fill my brain with butter making knowledge.

Plus I got to spend the afternoon with these two lovely ladies!

2010 Muddy Feet Trail Race

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Andrea

It was Thursday of last week that I learned about the Muddy Feet trail race that was happening on Saturday. I was talking on Twitter about trail running and about another race I have planned for next month. My twitter friend, Emily, said that she didn’t think the race was a trail race per say but just went around the perimeter of the park.

Well that’s kind of a bummer, right? She said she and her husband were running the Muddy Feet trail run on Saturday and it was on an actual trail.

I totally signed up.

I may or may not be addicted to trail running which may or may not be the reason why I signed up right away at the last minute.

We are lucky here in Columbus because we not only have a thriving bustling city but we also have parks and water very close by. This race was taking place at Alum Creek and there were two distances to pick from, 4.5 miles or 6.5 miles.

2010 Buckeye Classic

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Andrea

The Buckeye Classic is a 10K trail race that I stumbled across a few weeks ago and decided to sign up for. I love 10Ks, probably my favorite to race and I wish that Columbus had more of them. We either have a ton of 5Ks in the spring/summer or they are halfs. In the summer when my mileage is higher, I don’t want to sacrifice a long run for a 5K race. In the winter when my mileage is lower and it’s a lot colder, running 5ks and four milers are perfect! You get to race and you’re not out in the cold very long.

10Ks are great for summer, fall, and early winter racing! Please Columbus, put on more 10Ks!

Anyway, I saw this race was a trail race and decided to go for it. Then for some reason I got it stuck in my head that it was going to be all paved trail running.

Event: Grand Opening of Market District at Kingsdale

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Andrea

I’ve been working on this post for quite sometime and have finally come to the conclusion that it needs to be broken up into two parts. Otherwise it was way too long and I don’t want my dear readers to have to sift through a novel of a post. Therefore, my experience with the new Market District at Kingsdale is going to be explained in two parts. The first will talk about the event I attended and the second will talk more in-depth about the store and what it has to offer our city of Columbus, Ohio.

I was contacted by Donna, who is head of online marketing at Giant Eagle, inviting me to attend the Grand Opening event of the new Market District. I had heard a few rumblings about this store coming to Ohio a little over the summer but really didn’t think much about it. When I was contacted about the grand opening, I was more than excited to get a chance to see the store firsthand on opening day and to be considered a VIP guest!

Experiencing My First Race Expo

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Andrea

When I found out that there was an actual race expo attached to the Columbus Marathon, I become very excited! To me this proved that this race was a biggie and I had such great expectations heading into the expo.

Admittedly, all previous races that I have raced, the race packets have been nothing worth noting. They came with the bib, course map if you’re lucky, and maybe a coupon to someplace. Typically it just contained ads though.

My success rate with race shirts is not stellar. One I didn’t get because they didn’t have my size. They said they would mail it out to me but once I saw how ugly it was (for real, it was the color of dirty dish water), I kindly passed.

Most of them are men’s sizes (because we know women don’t run races right?) so they don’t fit me anyway. I give those to Scott.

I finally got one that was a nice blue color but wearing it for anything longer than a short run isn’t a good idea. But still, a race shirt for me! YaY!

2010 Columbus Marathon

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Andrea

I’m calling this The Race That Shouldn’t Have Been, because seriously everything that shouldn’t happen before a big race happened.

This is also a really long post, full of reflections, backstory, and recap. I hope you stick around but I understand if you do not.

This was my first time running the Columbus Marathon and my second attempt. For the record, I run halfs, I do not run fulls. More on that in a future post, today we are focused on this race recap.

The Columbus Marathon is a full marathon and a half marathon. This is also a qualifying marathon for those interested in trying to obtain the magical BQ. For Columbus, Ohio, this race is A BIG DEAL. There are a total of 15,000 participants and thousands of spectators and supporters. Just think big.

I tried to run it last year but a previous injury kept me sidelined.

This year I was determined to run it.

Event: Columbus Food and Wine Affair 2010

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Andrea

Scott and I are constantly learning more and more about Columbus and its fantastic food scene which makes me fall in love with Columbus a little more each day. Many, I’m sure, would be surprised to learn that Columbus has a huge local foods scene. As a newbie foodie and beginner local foods advocate, I am soaking up as much of the information and atmosphere that I can.

We learned about the Columbus Food and Wine Affair last year after the event already happened. I stumbled upon a few recaps and then eventually the official website outlining what the event entailed and what the proceeds supported. Scott and I were so bummed to have missed it and vowed that we would attend the following year.

Then it slipped our minds as the year went on but amazingly enough it came across my radar again. We discussed whether or not to go and decided that it would definitely be an event that should not be missed. I purchased tickets and could barely contain myself for the rest of the week.

Event: Food Blog Forum Atlanta Seminar 2010

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Andrea

Hi gang! Are you ready for a BIG ole post? Let’s do it!

As you know, I was away this past weekend attending the 2010 Food Blog Forum Atlanta Conference (Try this link, hopefully it still works). Lori contacted me a couple months ago to let me know that this event was going on. After some chatting with her and Scott, it was decided that it would be a great opportunity to learn how to improve my blog. Lori and I decided that we would room together and then started planning our trip.

The great thing about this seminar being located in Atlanta was the fact that it was very close for those of us on the Eastern end of the States. The majority of blogging conferences are on the West half of the states which is lovely if you live over there. For those of us who don’t, a cross country flight is expensive and requires all day traveling. Add on the cost of the seminar, hotel fees, and extra money for happy fun times, and you have a good chunk of change invested into what amounts to a very small amount of time.