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Continue reading →: Barmbrack for Clay (from Dubliners) by James JoyceFor St. Patrick’s Day this year I decided to pull out my copy of Dubliners and finally finish this collection of short stories. For the story Clay, I made barmbrack, an Irish bread traditionally made for Halloween. They settled down before their huge mugs which the cook and the dummy…
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Continue reading →: Mud Pies for Enemy Pie by Derek MunsonA grabbed a stack of pie books from the library to celebrate pie day, but just knew I had to make a mud pie for the yucky pie a little boy wants to make for his greatest enemy in Enemy Pie by Derek Munson. There is one part of Enemy…
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Continue reading →: Fresh Whole Wheat Brown Butter Pasta for The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura DaveIn The Last Thing He Told Me, Hannah tries so hard to win over her stepdaughter, Bailey, including going to great lengths to replicate a dish Bailey liked at a restaurant. Here’s my take on the Whole Wheat Linguini in a brown butter sage sauce–sans burning. “It’s the linguine that…
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Continue reading →: Chocolate Chip Cookies for Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins ReidSorry, these browned butter chocolate chip cookies are drugs-free, but you’ll still be asking for just one more. KAREN: This one time, we were recording and in comes a dozen chocolate chip cookies delivered by some dude. I said, “We have enough cookies.” And the kid said, “Not this kind.”…
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Continue reading →: Dark Chocolate Cake for Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six by Lisa UngerI knew I had to make the chocolate cake that gets abandoned by the six nitwits in the cabin who all split up and go their separate ways. Never, ever split up when you’re staying in a cabin in the middle of nowhere says every horror, suspense, mystery novel/movie everywhere.…
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Continue reading →: My Favorite Chocolate Cake RecipeI’ve been using this chocolate cake recipe for years. It’s a Devil’s Food Cake recipe, to be exact and it’s phenomenal. I never, ever use other recipes. If necessary, I substitute this recipe into whatever I’m using. It’s delicious and super chocolatey and incredibly moist. My chocolate cake recipe is…
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Continue reading →: Valentine’s Day Comic Cupcakes for A Unicorn Named Sparkle and the Perfect ValentineA Unicorn Named Sparkle is the sweetest children’s books series. The illustrations are charming and, I swear, I can hear little Lucy’s voice when I read these books. I had to recreate the Valentine’s Day cupcakes from Lucy and Sparkle’s party, but make them comic because…illustrations! [Sparkle] cut a heart…
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Continue reading →: Black Cake for Black Cake by Charmaine WilkersonI, of course, had to try my hand at Black Cake after reading Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson. Benny had just enough time to go through the whole routine and set two black cakes on top of the stove to cool before getting ready for her morning job. She still…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: The Secret History by Donna TarttWhile there was plenty of food mentioned in The Secret History by Donna Tartt, I had to highlight the scene with the cherries. It so perfectly encapsulates how ridiculous the characters are, while also showing how they’re all spiraling out of control. For some time I had been staring at…
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Continue reading →: Adorable Gingerbread Cookies for Santa Rex by Molly IdleI adore Molly Idle and especially the Tea Rex series that follow Cordelia and her little brother George (I know his name because I asked Molly Idle!) and their dinosaur friends on adventures. For Santa Rex, I had to recreate the gingerbread cookies the kids make for Santa, along with…
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