Yes. Yes She Did.

She most certainly did make the trek on a wretchedly rainy Saturday to the dangerously-nearer-than-before Penzey’s boutique, wherein she proceeded to plunk down more than $80 on spices.
What? I just moved! I needed to restock! Not to mention, the holiday season is coming up! Don’t judge.
By the way, was I exaggerating [...]

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A Few of My Favorite Things

I am, as you might have guessed, not much of a moderate person. What I love, I love with consuming passion, and what I hate, I loathe.
In the latter category is New Year’s Eve, concerning which I’ve made my views amply clear.  And no, I haven’t changed my mind.  There’s not enough sparkly alcoholic beverage [...]

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And So It Begins

Well, that didn’t take long.  Despite my good intentions, despite the fact that it’s only been two months, and more importantly, despite my student budget, I bought another cookbook.
Oh, I could protest that it was just a lucky find on the bargain table (always a bane to my willpower), that I’ll stop after just this [...]

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Holiday Cookie Blogging, Part I

I’m in the middle of the holiday cookie baking frenzy, having already made three kinds of cookies in the past week. One was an experimental batch to use the snowflake cookie cutters I bought in a holiday-induced bout of temporary insanity which made me forget that I have insufficient patience for cookie cutter cookies. The [...]

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Oooof.

Overdid it? Feel like fasting between now and New Year’s? Vowing to everyone in sight that this is the last time you will participate in this appalling national orgy of gluttony?
Yeah, me too, which is why breakfast today consisted of my sure-fire morning-after remedy: lemon ginger tea. The ginger aids in digestion, and both ginger [...]

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