“I probably shouldn’t be telling you this, but as soon as I took that bread knife in hand, I knew that my basest desires would be unleashed. I have never felt this way about a piece of food before, but you made a million Prince songs go through my head, most of note ‘Do Me Baby.’ Now, I know that it is an inappropriate song to be shared between a comestible and a woman, but the heart wants what it wants, and you had to be devoured. Please know that it was worth every crumb….”
February 13, 2013 by sherlonya
In an open letter to a piece of king cake that made me want,
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September 6, 2010 by admin
Recipe 100
About 2 weeks ago I completed one of my more ambitious birthday goals: try 100 new recipes!!
I learned a lot about the things that I like and the things that I don’t like. I also learned a lot about foisting things upon other people!
This is a Cardamom Crumb Cake from the latest Everyday Food. It seems right that I finished this project off with an ingredient that I explicitly bought for another recipe in the project.
The other thing I learned this year is that I love the idea of cake, but don’t really love cake so much. I like to bake them and make them pretty and take pictures of them and smell their wonderful cakey smells, but then I think, “Crap, what am I going to do with all of this cake.” The grapevine said that folks at the workplace were glad to get it.
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June 24, 2010 by admin
7-up Cake
Believe it or not, I have never ever had 7-up Cake before today.
I was trying to deal with the magazine infestation that has plagued me for some time when I came across a recipe for the cake in an old issue of Cooks Illustrated. Sounded good. So I clipped the recipe and bought the ingredients.
Then, I promptly lost the clipping, though I have the other things I kept from that issue of the magazine. So I found a different recipe online.
A cake was born.
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July 26, 2009 by admin
Plum cake
As soon as a happened upon this cake, (thank you Bloglines for delivering the blogs I like to read in such an easy way), I knew that I wanted to make it. I actually thought of the cake every day until this morning when I finally made it. Wait, let me correct that. Until this morning when Alex (mostly made the cake).
When I re-read the instructions for the cake, I knew that I would have to make a couple of changes. I didn’t have dark brown sugar, just light. Also, whole milk is just not something that we have kicking around in the fridge under normal circumstances, so I used 2 percent. Since Alex has shown a particular liking for the green, “golden glow” plums, that is what I bought for this cake. Oh, one more thing, since I *gasp* didn’t have any vanilla. (Yeah, I know even people who don’t cook or bake have vanilla). I had to choose between lemon extract and almond extract. I went with the almond.
Success!
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