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Month: January, 2012

Cheddar Beer Soup

Like most people during their teenage years, I regularly found myself scavenging the house for something to eat. Invariably, when the pantry and refrigerator were bare, there were always two items I could always count on seeing tucked away, untouched and lonely. Now I am not a picky eater, but there is one food product [...]

Top of the muffin TO YOU!

After numerous calamitous cooking attempts, it was about time I got one right. So I thought “How about some muffins?” Muffins are usually foolproof. Besides, baking muffins always make me laugh when I think of this… Do you really think we need the exclamation point? Because it’s not top of the muffin TO YOU. -Elaine [...]

New Years Orange-Almond Tart

The planets must have been completely out of alignment for New Years Day 2012. Something was off indeed. I continually dropped shit that day. Crazy people were driving as if they were blind. There was a 48-hour span of weirdness that simply cannot be explained. New Years Eve was spent cooking what was to be [...]

Lightweight

New toy. No more math!