Hurry Up and Wait

I’m starting to suspect I’m the winter equivalent of Typhoid Mary.  All too often have I moved somewhere and it’s suddenly weather they haven’t seen in over a decade, and I regret to say it’s happened again.  Sorry, Pacific Northwest.
Part of me opens the door to the whole three inches out there and wants to [...]

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Sidewalk Table and Jacarandas Not Included

This week’s Sunday sweets blogging was partly pantry-clearing and partly nostalgia-tripping.
For our anniversary last year, His Lordship and I took a greatly-postponed honeymoon trip to Argentina. The idea was to show him where I came from, visit my pasta-producing grandmother, and consume unseemly quantities of amazing — and amazingly cheap — local food products, [...]

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Sunday Night Sweets Blogging: Opera Cupcakes

We’re woefully overdue for another Sunday night sweets entry. It isn’t that I haven’t been baking; it’s just that life has been interfering with blogging time again. The hazelnut chocolate chip cookies I made two weeks ago were a bit disappointing and not worth posting about yet, but I’ll try to find time to write [...]

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Sunday Night Cookie Blogging: Kitchen Crapshoot Edition

No matter how skilled you are (and I make no claims to being anything more than an enthusiastic and fairly competent amateur), cooking is always a crapshoot. You increase your odds by having the basic skills down, choosing your ingredients well, and using reliable recipes, but some element of chance always remains. Sometimes it’s happy [...]

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