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A twofer
It’s been unbelievably hard to find time to post these days, but our family dinners have been going strong. Even the baby joins us while we eat, either nursing, napping, screaming his head off, or some...
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The tiniest birthday cake
When Rose asked if we could make a birthday cake for her Beanie Boo, Ice Cube, I said yes. Not because I have an excess of free time on my hands (or free hands on my hands, for that matter) but because...
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Soft cooked eggs & heart cake
If Rose keeps on buying Beanie Boos, I think I might as well go ahead and realize my life-long fantasy of opening a bakery. We’ve been insisting she buy the Boos with her own money. Seemingly, this...
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Cake
Today was probably the most productive and gratifying day I’ve had, at home alone with two kids, in the past 14 months. What made today so special? It wasn’t that with both kids awake, I managed to get...
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Cake: Part 2
Remember the cake I made last weekend? I was testing out a recipe to bring to work to celebrate Jenya’s birthday. One of the gals on our team is vegan and lately I’ve been enjoying the challenge of...
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Inside out German chocolate torte
Shane had a pretty significant birthday last weekend. “I don’t want a big party,” he said “birthdays are for cake with kids.” So we had a very small party, with cake, and kids. I made him his very...
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Summer birthdays
We close out every summer with a birthday celebration for my sister Anna. We either have steak or Mexican, and I almost always make a cake. This year was a steak year. But first, we had sidecar...
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incredible 3 (or 4) ingredient flourless chocolate cake
When my kids grow up, I’m pretty sure they’ll tell people that whenever they were bored, I would say “Well why don’t you draw, or bake something?” And that will be the reason they became artists or...
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Italian flag cookies for fonder hearts
I still miss New York. It’s not that I don’t like living here, I do, mostly. I have so much to be grateful for, like my parents who live downstairs, and their kitchen which we fondly refer to as “the...
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The lava cake promise
This past week for February break, I took 3 kids to Great Wolf Lodge for three days. As someone who’s easily overwhelmed by chaos and doesn’t like to drink in the daytime—which seems to be the MO for...
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