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Here's yet another "I'm not dead!" message.  No, I'm not dead.  Yes, I disappeared for a year plus.  And yet again, th...

I apologize for the terrible post title but I couldn't resist the urge to make a stupid pun. Usually I start a post with a story or an...

This post is a little bit different from the other posts because it's not about baking desserts, but it is about experimenting in the ki...

Everybody describes making macarons as difficult.  Everybody also has a set of rules for making macarons: the egg whites must be aged! the e...

In one of the more "San Francisco" things that's ever happened to me, a couple of guys showed up to my last baking potluck and...

It has been roughly 15 months since my last post.  If anybody is actually following this blog, I apologize for disappearing.  There are lots...

Portmanteau recipes have become really trendy in baking circles ever since the cronut became so popular.  Ridiculously popular, really - t...

Second post in a month!  Even though I wrote the last one in February but didn't hit the "publish" button until March, it stil...

Edit #2: oh my god it's March .  At this point, there just isn't any excuse for how long this has taken to write up.  The good new...

The original draft of this entry had a very long and complicated explanation of what happened after I moved, but I deleted it because a) it ...