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  • Changes, they are a-coming, plus an excerpt

    Updates I’m 27,000 words into my WIP, so that means I’m keeping up with the lesser end of my word count goal (7,000 words a week minimum, with 10,000 being better). I also signed up for some critique partners through Miss Snark’s First Victim a couple of weeks ago, and I think I found some…

    July 26, 2012
  • Red, White, and Blue(berry) Bread

    “Oh, look at this. Can you believe this baker? What a lazy way to show patriotism.” “Um, it’s a loaf of bread. I’m not sure it’s claiming to be a show of patriotism.” “Of course it is. Calling it ‘Red White and Blue Bread’ and presenting it near July 4 as if it’s some great…

    June 21, 2012
  • Hey, remember what this site used to be about?

    Probably not, unless you happen to have memorized my home page. Which will at some point become an about page, as I’m thinking I might as well make the blog the home page. But ahem. This site used to be about how I’m an aspiring author of speculative fiction. I was going to build my…

    June 14, 2012
  • Banana “Ice Cream” with Not-Quite-So-Bad-For-You Caramel Sauce

    “Garcon!” (snap snap) (sigh of the long-suffering) “Yes, sir? May I help you with something? The bill, perhaps, as you’ve graced us with your presence for over four hours now?” “When I haven’t had dessert yet? Of course not!” “You mean the ice cream you had me return to the freezer two hours ago? If…

    June 6, 2012
  • Caramel Cashew Butter

    Dear Mom, I wanted to talk to you about this in person, but every time I said sumthing like “Mom, about the sanwitches you’ve been making me,” your eyes got all big and a little too shiney, and then you’d say something like, “BILLY! Don’t you just LOVE your caramel cashew butter sanwitches?” Then after…

    May 30, 2012
  • Coconut Pistachio Banana Rolls with Cardamom Cream Cheese Glaze

    “Is this on?”  (tap tap SCREECH) “Oh! Sorry about that.” (laughs nervously) “Anyway, welcome, welcome! I see some of you are still shambling to your seats, but we better get started. I hope you understand if I want to be home before nightfall. As a reminder, for both your safety and mine, the fence I…

    May 19, 2012
  • PSA: For people like my brother…

    … who complain about my reference to grams as units of weight rather than mass: My digital scale is a $25 scale that is incapable of measuring mass of the ingredients I use. It’s measuring the weight. And yes, I suppose that then it’s using some sort of mathematical conversion to figure the equivalent weight…

    May 6, 2012
  • Fudgy Mint Zombie-Distracting Brownies

    Carefully, Hortense placed the last bit of crumbled brand-name minty chocolate sandwich cookies atop the pale green frosting. Hand on her lower back to ease the kink, she leaned back. Yes, she thought, these particular brownies would appeal to Eveleen and Joe Junior. A small smile spread across her face as she envisioned the joy…

    May 3, 2012
  • Post the first

    Hi. Future posts will include recipes. This one does not. If you think about this site like you would a cookbook, cookbooks don’t dive right into the recipes. There’s a table of contents and maybe a dedications page and quite frequently an introduction. All the lead-in material. And maybe most people don’t read it, but…

    April 30, 2012
  • Storied Kitchen: Irish Cream Cookies

    Snickersnack* the leprechaun eased the burden of his bag of gold off his shoulders and regarded the far end of the rainbow. Why rainbows? Why was it there that he had to hide his gold? Why not at the edge of, say, the Aurora Borealis? Rainbows just seemed so . . . trite. And that…

    March 14, 2012
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