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My original plan for this blog was to post once a week, most likely over the weekend but maybe during the week if work was slow or boring. T...

Update (4/22/2013): I tried this recipe for a second time and got better results. I'm not the only baker who gets a type of recipe s...

When I was in high school, my father told me that if I drank enough beer I would learn to like it.  I spent the next five years or so doing ...

Now that it's January and I'm looking back at the holiday season, I'm still convinced that work holiday parties are horrible.  I...

Having two jobs means that I've basically got double of all of those job-related things that crop up in life - specifically, I had three...

It's that time of the year: holiday parties for two months, where you want to bring something nice but after the first couple of parties...

Chez Panisse is a very famous restaurant in my hometown of Berkeley, notable for the fact that it basically started the California cuisine ...

As part of my post-hurricane potluck baking experiments, I decided that I wanted to try baking a nice cake made with green tea.  I had bough...

Once a month, I meet up with a group of friends to play games and have a potluck.  It's perfect because I get to try out new games that ...

When you're tired after a long day, it's so easy to stay in a food rut and eat the same thing you always do when you're exhauste...