Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
Back in April I went to the wedding of one of my favorite people. Katie Selig and I had some great times together; we were in a writers’ workshop together for two years, we wrote poems together, and I even got to work under her as a copy editor for The Original Magazine. It is [...]
First wedding of the season
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
For once in my life I followed the recipe almost exactly. I found the recipe through Cheap Healthy Good; here is the original recipe. Here is what I did:
First I mixed up my 1.5 minus 1-ish tablespoons of flour (I measured with the soup spoon I use to scoop the flour into the measuring cup), [...]
How to make a Wacky Cake
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Like Tizz, I have been trying to keep busy, with varying success rates depending on the day. Today for instance, I spent three hours futzing with the blog, only to delete one of my blog posts. Great. I have been a gloomy gus this month particularly, taking lots of naps, eating store bought cookie dough [...]
Things I have done while I haven’t been blogging
Tags: anthropologie, bamboo pen and touch, earrings, wacom
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Finally following through on a rivetting serious of frozen meal reviews. First up: Healthy Choice’s Grilled Basil Chicken.
Healthy Choice: “Grilled” Basil Chicken
Tags: healthy choice
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Various events have lead to me eating out/planning to eat out for 4 out of 5 workdays this week. So tomorrow will have the only frozen meal food review from me. If it makes you feel any better, greasy pizza and Moe’s spicy salsa/sauce are wreaking havoc on my poor little probiotic belly.
In the meantime, [...]
Making a bad cheesecake
Tags: cheesecake, fail
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Sunday, January 24th, 2010
Tizzie Lizzie and I have both been eating frozen lunches for a while now, for a variety of reasons Mostly because Tizz is kind of a bum in the lunch making department, and I am kind of a bum in the not being chubby division. We’ve arrived at a few anecdotal theories regarding the various [...]
Eating from a box
Tags: frozen meals, Reviews
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Back in Pittsburgh, I worked in this sandwich shop. It was a pretty popular sandwich shop, and every day we made three soups: creamy tomato basil, vegan chili, and white turkey chili. These soups were delicious. I still crave these soups. Unfortunately, the owners were kind of dicks, so I left after a year, and [...]
Dinner last night: white turkey chili
Tags: chili, white turkey chili
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
I love Bakerella’s site. Love love love it. She has so much patience and creativity, and she creates the most deliciously decadent cookies.
I also love s’mores. And ever since I convinced Husband to use the fireplace, and we had our first successful fire, I have been craving them.
So when Bakeralla posted her recipe for S’more Cupcakes, [...]
S’more cupcakes please
Tags: Bakerella, cupcakes, s'more cupcakes
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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
…And I’m so excited. Last week I baked a few dozen cut-out sugar cookies: chocolate and vanilla, both from Martha Stewart. The baking was not entirely a success:
12 days til Christmas…
Tags: cookies, cut-out cookies, egg trick, eggs in a basket, Martha Stewart, McCormick's, pig roast, royal icing
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Monday, November 30th, 2009
Last Friday’s Day After Thanksgiving Dinner turned into a snack party with friends, football, and Cranium. We made cheesy pigs in a blanket, onion dip, buffalo chicken dip, and a flatbread that no one ate.
Thanksgiving Fallout
Tags: onion dip, pigs in a blanket, veggies and dip
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