The Story of the Ugly Cake – Daring Bakers July

This story started, as all good things should, with a very tasty sounding cake. It had a lovely light nut sponge cake base, alcohol infused simple syrup, drizzled chocolate, and light but buttery frosting. Sigh. It should have turned out as a beautiful cake.

But there were two forks in the road. And I took the [...]

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Filbert Gateau with "Buttercream" – July Daring Bakers

Hi guys. I know that some of you are checking out all of the beautiful creations by the Daring Bakers this month and drooling.
Well I owe you an explanation…
…I really do.
But I just don’t have the energy right now to explain everything that didn’t go right. So for tonight, I suggest you go [...]

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A Day (and Meal) for a Celebration

I am thrilled to be able to share that my good friend, Arwyn, is getting married this fall. She is such a wonderful and loving friend and she deserves all of the happiness in the world!
Being me, the best way that I know to celebrate and express such a thing is with food. So for [...]

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SPINACH & FETA FUSSILI PASTA SALAD

Hi all – I’m excited to be able to share another great recipe from my Dad. My family just spent a GREAT week together, so being apart now is definitely hard. But at least with these posts I get to hear about (and be jealous of) what they’re eating [...]

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CARPINTERIA CAMPING TATERS

Some of you (hopefully) may have noticed that I’ve been MIA for a week – much longer than usual! I have to apologize. I was on my annual family camping trip. And I meant to find time to post (I certainly found some time to do camping cooking) but I just couldn’t [...]

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