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Catching Up!
Hi, my name is Mel, and I suck at blogging. (Look, Jenni! I'm back!)Let's rewind a few months. . . I'm always a bit stressed and busy over the winter at work, but now that things are starting to wrap...
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HAPPY EASTER!
As most of you know (haha, all two of you), Scott and I spent the past year living in a really SMALL apartment out in the boonies. It had a lot of pluses (cheap, quiet) but it was time for a change. We...
View ArticleVegan Muffins for Running!
A few weeks ago I was fortunate enough to be in New England, and spend the day with Mel (yay!!). And, in true BIFL fashion, we spent the morning baking! Mel helped me adapt her amazing healthy muffin...
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Happy June Birthday(s)!
I made a cake, but there's a story behind this cake.A few months ago a friend of mine went for a job interview (which she eventually got, and then moved millions of miles away for!) and while on this...
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i scream, you scream.
Oh, hi there, I'm just here trying out my new blog tag - homemade ice cream - because I feel that it is about to get OVERUSED!Internet, my friend Melanie is the greatest friend! Besides being a...
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I'm baaaaaack (again!)
I love that we have this blog, Jenni (and Michelle. . . hello, Michelle? Are you out there?) and I really do need to get back into contributing to it. It's so much fun so I don't really know why I...
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Graduation cake!
In June, I made a graduation cake for one of my students and her cousin. I had a hard time tracking down the plastic graduation caps cake toppers I've used in the past, so I figured out how to make it...
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German Chocolate Cake!!
About a month ago, I made my first German Chocolate Cake and it was delicious!! I mean, chocolate, coconut. . . hello?! Heaven! I topped it with a chocolate ganache just to make it even more chocolaty....
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Anyone for brunch??
Okay, are you still with me? There's yet more catching up to do!I had some friends over for brunch a few weeks ago and made my first frittata! I'm not a HUGE egg fan, something Jenni and I have in...
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Impromptu Pizza, sort of
While at Trader Joes one day, I picked up some of their fabulous herb pizza dough and pesto among other things. A few days later, I still didn't have a specific plan per say for the pizza, but my...
View ArticleAre you ready for some football?
Saturday was UTs first home football game, and the event was not going to go off without some sort of celebration. There was a gathering of sorts (normally I call these things tailgates, but recently...
View Articlespinach & cheese = a match made in heaven
I'm trying out new recipes for Thanksgiving and holy holy have I got one for you to try.It's very possible that I like anything with spinach and cheese, especially Gruyere cheese. I tried this recipe...
View ArticleMy new favorite Cornbread recipe
I tend to bake late at night, I'm not sure why, I just do. So last night, around 11:30pm, I decided to whip up a new recipe I had found on allrecipes.com for Cornbread.Who doesn't like cornbread? I've...
View Articletofu scramble omelette
It seems I've been keeping a secret, unintentionally, as it came up when I was talking to Mel on the phone last night. I...don't eat meat anymore. It's been a while, maybe since April. I don't really...
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Vegan Mocha Fudge Cake
My first vegan cake!This cake was. . . delicious. The recipe came out of a cute little cake cookbook that my mother in-law gave me for Christmas called 500 Cakes. The original recipe is simply called...
View ArticleBaked Tofu
Here's my new favorite thing. I've been keeping it a secret for a while, mostly because I've been too lazy to write about it. Baked Tofu! I guess that's what you call it. It's like fried tofu, but...
View ArticleTop Secret Operation Step 1: Vegan Chocolate Cakes
There's a top secret project going on over here, it was started yesterday. I baked some vegan cakes. They weren't intended to be vegan, although to be honest most of my baking is vegan these days. The...
View ArticleTop Secret Operation Step 2: Cake Carving and Crumb Coat
After the Vegan Cakes were made and frozen, I need to carve them to the right shape, and put on a crumb coat. In order to keep this Top Secret, I can't reveal yet which shape I carved it to, but let's...
View ArticleClear-Out-The-Cupboard Chocolate Chip Cookies
I can count the days left in this house on one hand (ACK!) which also means, it's my job to use all the food left in the cupboards, or it gets thrown out. I have a full bag of Ghiradelli chocolate...
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Is this thing on....
Turns out, moving across the country and starting over with your kitchen appliances, tools and gadgets makes cooking and baking tough. But, I've definitely been up to more than I've let on. Here's a...
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