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Tenderness

On April 19, 2013 By

 

A few weeks ago, I was asked to fill in as a co-host at the Seattle News/Talk radio station where I host my weekly show, “It’s Raining Cats & Dogs”. I’m not a journalist and I’m new to the news format, so it was exciting and scary to [...]

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The 12 Cookies Of Christmas

On December 25, 2012 By

 

From the spreadsheet to the baking sheet, my annual experiment in small batch gift giving is over for another year. While I didn’t have as much time to labor over every single sprinkle and glaze this year, and I was down 4 hands as Kevin was under the weather and Amy didn’t come home [...]

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A Tale Of Two Pies

On October 10, 2012 By

It was the best of pies, it was the worst of pies…sometimes even a recipe you’ve made a million times, a signature dish, a go to move, something you can make in your sleep, turns out so poorly it wakes you right up out of our baking slumber. This week, I was invited to a [...]

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Traction In The Rain

On September 26, 2012 By

The last few days, I’ve had several conversations (some internal, some, er, external) about traction: what it is and how to get it. According to the dictionary, traction can be defined as -n 1. The act of drawing or pulling, esp by motive power 2. The state of being drawn or pulled 3. [...]

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3 Is A Magic Number

On July 28, 2012 By

Ok, so I lied. I lied about a couple of things. First, in my post titled Mother’s Milk, I stated that I would not bake another thing until I had perfected the very first recipe in The Cake Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum’s. Anyone who enjoyed reading about Kevin’s [...]

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Cherry Oh Baby

On July 9, 2012 By

In anticipation of The Great Cherry Pie Challenge, I decided to see what Kevin was getting himself into; he claims he can pit enough cherries for a pie in 15 minutes or less.  I’m convinced it’s more labor intensive than that, especially now that I see that no one can even agree on [...]

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Under My Thumb

On May 29, 2012 By

Best rule of thumb in every area of your life: know your audience. Having a dinner party? Serving Veal Prince Orlov to your vegan friends won’t be appreciated. Giving a speech to a bunch of 6 year olds? You’ll get a lot further is you wear a clown suit over a business suit. But [...]

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It’s A Mistake

On May 10, 2012 By

(If titling my blog after a Staind song wouldn’t hasten the four horsemen of The Apocalypse, I would have called today’s blog ‘It’s Been A While’. It’s not that I haven’t been baking; it’s that I’ve been cheating on my blogging by actually…er…working. I love my new job; it’s all going swimmingly but I [...]

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Life Is Hard

On April 16, 2012 By

…but really, does it have to be? Sometimes hard is in your head, I know because it used to be in mine. This week, I started my new full time job at Jet City Stream, a brand new Seattle start-up, that at it’s core is an internet stream playing nothing but Northwest bands [...]

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100% Fun

On March 25, 2012 By

Here’s proof that there were birthdays before we blogged about birthdays:

Found deep in the digital archives, that’s me with a platter of pre-Shawnologue cupcakes, handcrafted for our friend Pete’s birthday. Truth be told, not a lot has changed since that photo was taken. My hair’s a little blonder, my crow’s feet are a little [...]

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