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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 ...

Everybody who has moved has said this at least once during a move: why do I own so much stuff?   I'm no different, and packing to move a...

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...