The Great Minnesota Gathering

We love the Fair and would love to hear what you Blog Pantry ladies did, who you saw and most importantly, what you ate! Please link here to your Minnesota State Fair posts!

Noodles&Company Blogger Picnic


Several members of The Blog Pantry attended a picnic hosted by Noodles&Company to taste their delicious new sandwiches a few weeks ago. Here is a link to the flickr photostream from the event.

July Networking Event at Kirkland Gallery


We had a fabulous time at the Kirkland Gallery last night! Thanks to Lenore of MomCultureOnline.com for setting up the event. (She also helped curate the children’s art room of the current exhibit!)

James, the gallery owner, gave us a tour of the new gallery and told us about the artists and their art. I think by the end of the evening, we all had a favorite painting or sculpture!

Byerly’s of St. Louis park provided Coppola Su Yuen wine, which was perfect with the food! We especially liked the Syrah.
Whole Foods sent amazing sushi our way (all of the seafood used is free of added growth hormones, pesticides and is not fed mammalian feed.) One of our bloggers commented to me that she had never thought of trying sushi at Whole Foods, but said she loved it so much that she’ll seek it out in the future! BakeMeAWish.com sent cakes for us to taste and we were amazed at how good they were. Our favorite was the vanilla cake with custard filling and luscious chocolate frosting!

Russell and Hazel gave us all cute gift packets that included a great calendar, a gift list book and two of their funky huge rubber bands to help keep us organized!

Here’s a link to my Flickr Photostream from the event: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kitchenpantryscientist/

What some of us had to say about the event:

The Ladies Make Aebleskivers

Last night we joined Chad Gillard of Aunt Else’s and Kim Moldofsky of Mom Impact to make aebleskivers at Local D’Lish. Here’s our report.

Giveaways Galore

Need a little mid-week pick me up? We’re cruising our blogroll to see which Blog Pantry ladies have contests underway.

Little Bean Photo Event

At our May event, the Blog Pantry ladies stepped it up a bit thanks to Little Bean Photo. After raising money to fight child hunger at the rummage sale hosted by Molly from The Snyder 5, we joined Elissa at her studio. We poured wine and sampled cheese from France 44 and delved into Mom’s Best Naturals. And then Elissa took our headshots, and here they are.

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We’re moving to Facebook!

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The ladies meet Cat Cora

Thanks so much to those of you who came out on Saturday to meet Cat Cora! Here are our recaps:

We’re moving to Facebook.