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Category: Cooking
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Simple Life: Handwashing Dishes
I’ve washed dishes by hand all my life. There was a dishwasher, once, but it was old and busted and eventually got used for storage. So I know the routine well, of standing there with your hands in hot soapy water and staring at the wall… and the dishes never end. You can wash them…
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Eat This While You Read That: La Vaughn Kemnow
I’ve been waiting on this day for a while. I started this blog series with no real intentions in my mind other than a playful way of promoting some friends and authors in a way I knew I could do – cooking – and to hone my own photography skills with a challenge. It’s been…
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Simple Life: Pickled Eggs
It’s the start of a new semester. I’ve only got two semesters left, and this is one of them. I feel like life is kicking into high gear, and I’m going to be running to keep up. I know I do a lot of recipes on this blog, for a woman who doesn’t actually write…
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Eat This While You Read That: Lois McMaster Bujold
I have to admit, being able to write this post gives me a fan-girl moment. I asked in Baen’s Bar and she actually took the time to answer me and suggest a dish. Lois McMaster Bujold has long been one of my favorite authors, and possibly the most influential one in my life, so I’m…
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Forgotten Meringues
Say you were making something else, like the cheesecake recipe. Or a pudding or custard. And you wind up with egg whites that are ‘leftover’ from the recipe. There’s an easy solution for that. Make these little confections. You can call them cookies, or candy, but no matter the name, they will be gone before…
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Cheesecake
Cheesecake, like so many other things, is more a state of mind than a simple recipe. The variations on it are nearly infinite, and even the ‘base’ of the recipe can be changed up. I looked at bunches of recipes online, and finally pulled out a cookbook to give myself a starting point. I really…
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Eat This While You Read That: Kris Keldaran
I’m going to start this ETWYRT on an unusual note. I cooked a recipe I’m familiar with for this week’s dish, and that is thanks to my Dad. Dad, like me, was a military brat. His family landed in Hawaii for his highschool years, and it left a big impression on him, one he passed…
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Modern Encyclopedia of Cooking
Growing up, this was the cookbook I remember best. My mom told me much later that this book had come to her from my grandmother, and the copyright dates bear that out – this book has been loved, used, and in the family for more than 60 years now. I’m talking about the Meta Given’s…
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Eat This While You Read That: George Phillies
When I asked George Phillies for a dish and a book, he sent me several. So I had choices! With the juxtaposition of Christmas, traveling, and the kids to help me, I decided to go with his Snickerdoodles recipe. In a fun turn, this was a recipe you really can read while you make it,…
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Eat This While You Read That: Kal Spriggs
For this blog series I have done lasagna, Alfredo sauce (twice) but not, previously, spaghetti. Today is that day. Kal Spriggs writes fun space opera, I reviewed his first one here, and recently has begun to produce epic fantasy as well. I was delighted to meet him in person this last LibertyCon, even if it…
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Eat This While You Read That: LB Johnson
It’s rare that I have a recipe in this series where I haven’t talked to the author directly, and it’s also rare that I have a recipe I can’t publish. That’s because the author is a friend of friends and they asked her about taking part, and because like me, she cooks and posts recipes…
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Chocolate Pudding Pie
The dear man, my beloved First Reader, has been asking for a chocolate pie for some time. In my quest to not get fat too quickly, as fun as getting fat is, I’d been putting it off until we’d recovered from the last dessert. He finally came up with the perfect need for pie: he’s…