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national pancake day- horray!

On February 28, 2012 By

My love of pancakes is deep and eternal. I’ll take them over waffles, any day. I’ll take them over crepes… most days.

So it brings me much joy to celebrate a holiday dedicated to them, if by “celebrate” we mean “forget about and eat an English muffin for breakfast”. Alas, there will be many pancakes […]

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yummy stubble

On December 14, 2011 By

Inspiration struck yesterday, whilst working away at my desk. Well, I will properly attribute the inspiration to Leigh, who admitted to resisting the impulse to put potato chips on my Hell Yes! Cake Bars. Instantly I thought of chocolate-covered potato chips. Then my mind moved on to chocolate-covered potato chips on a stick […]

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calling all gleeks!

On September 20, 2011 By

Tonight’s the night! The 3rd season premier of Glee! I am a recent convert and I just couldn’t help myself. The combination of singing, choreography and pop music wrapped in the high school package is too much to resist. I was a choir kid in school and was in musicals so I […]

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it’s so hard, to say goodbye, with treacle tart

On July 14, 2011 By

*sniff*

The time is here. Tonight at midnight I will enter the theater, donning my shiny new HP-inspired shirt and a grip of tissues to mop of my eyes.

I couldn’t think of a better way to send off Harry than with his very favorite dessert (pudding, if you will), treacle tart. Treacle tart […]

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Mrs. Weasley’s Magically Easy Fudge

On July 8, 2011 By

It’s (Harry Potter!) Christmas in July!

Well, maybe you like fudge all year round, but I usually think of it as a holiday treat. And who wouldn’t love a holiday package of goodies from Mrs. Weasley? Seriously, I want to be a mom just like her when I grow up…

Anyway, you […]

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dementor’s kiss… bread twists

On July 5, 2011 By

That’s right, nerdy lovers of all things Hogwarts. It’s that special time of year. I’ve got my midnight tickets (and didn’t take Friday off of work!), a new HP-related t-shirt to wear and I’m ready to roll. Well, in a week and a half I will be. Until then…

I present to […]

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an ode to citrus

On March 8, 2011 By

Growing up in suburban Minnesota, my ideas of citrus were limited to the occasional (and elusive) mandarin, grapefruit and the ever-present navel orange. With its thick skin and impossible pith, oranges were my least favorite fruit so I just assumed that I didn’t really like citrus.

So, when we moved to Arizona and Jim […]

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adventures in sprouted wheat- part 1

On January 17, 2011 By

I like to do things that can be deemed “hardcore”.

Like sprouting wheat berries.

And dehydrating it.

And grinding it up for homemade flour.

So what if I’m a little crazy overly ambitious? It keeps things interesting? I can’t really grow and harvest my own wheat from the ground up, but I figure this gets […]

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