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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 ...

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...