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All kinds of interesting things have happened over the last few weeks.  For the purposes of this blog, the only important thing is that I...

Every cookbook and blog tell you the same thing: use high quality, fresh ingredients for the best tasting results.  This makes sense and ...

This blog is supposed to be about baking and cooking instead of about my rather boring life.  But it's not really possible to separate w...

At some point, everybody who's taken geometry in school has said, "When am I ever going to need geometry?"  The surprising ans...

Mangoes are my favorite fruit.  I love how they taste, their texture, that they can be eaten by themselves or used in both savory and sweet ...

The first time I tried to make Zen Can Cook's green tea crepe cake , I got the crepe version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.  This time I...

When I moved to DC, I thought that it was an East Coast city that got snow regularly and that it had the in...

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 ...