Kat Palmiotti Blog

This month one of the ActiveRain challenges is called Charm of the Uncharted, hosted by Patricia Feager and Lew Corcoran . This challenge asks us to write a post about a place we have been to that felt uncharted in some way. The suggestions were that we might write about a spot that wasn't on GPS...

It's the weekend, a time when ActiveRainers share various recipes with the community, and with the BananaTUDES! group. Last night, my cooking club met for dinner. Our theme this time was Polish food. The host made a cabbage wrapped beef and rice dinner with mashed potatoes, another person made pi...

Patricia Feager and Lew Corcoran are hosting a challenge this month, Celebrating AR Lives Lost. The goal is to share our memories of those ActiveRain members who are no longer with us. I've chosen to share a bit about Gary Thomas, a Key West area member.Gary started posting in 2008 mostly about t...

It's the weekend, a time when ActiveRainers share various recipes with the community, and with the BananaTUDES! group. By the way, I just looked back to see if I'd shared a specific recipe previously and I realized we have been posting weekend recipes since July 2025 - eight months already! How t...

It's the weekend, a time when ActiveRainers share various recipes with the community, and with the BananaTUDES! group.Last night we got together with a few friends for dinner and we brought an appetizer. The appetizer was called Italian Purse Appetizer (link to original recipe included). Photo be...

One of the fun parts for many ActiveRain members is the earning points part, which is especially important when you don't yet have 500,000 points. And that benchmark is important because once you reach 500K, your account becomes free.A few days ago, someone commented that it was interesting someo...

It's the weekend, a time when ActiveRainers share various recipes with the community, and with the BananaTUDES! group.Last night we attended our neighbor's annual Christmas-tree burning party. For those who don't know, we live in a rural community in Northwest Montana, where burning of wood, brus...

This past Tuesday's Zoom call featured Jim Paulson. Jim shared all sorts of facts about the state of Idaho, and specifically the Boise ID area. As a result of that overview, I thought I'd share something that struck me as interesting.And that is that there are a LOT of similarities between Jim's ...

It's almost the weekend (I didn't want to be late this time!), a time when ActiveRainers share various recipes with the community, and with the BananaTUDES! group.Last night, I made a spinach* quiche and the reason I asterisked the word spinach is because that's what the quiche is called but ther...

It's the weekend, a time when ActiveRainers share various recipes with the community, and with the BananaTUDES! group. I am again one day late but...We typically have some kind of fish on Saturdays; I'm not sure why, but that's just how it turns out. Costco sells rockfish in big bunches, usually ...