Tuesday, July 10th, 2012
cherry-berry shortcakes
I’ve never known a summer without strawberry shortcake. I don’t want to! But why do we limit shortcake to strawberries? WHY.
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2012
strawberry cake
As mentioned, we picked our first strawberries of the year a couple of weekends ago. They were just so sweet and delicious that I almost forgot about the two hours we spent picking them, the resulting sunburn, the two additional hours I spent prepping them, and the months of rain that went into growing these little guys. I mean they were just that good.
We ate many, many strawberries on our cereal that week, I put about 4 quarts in the freezer, and then I thought about what to do with the few cups that remained. I’ll make jam sometime this summer; I made some last year and we ate through it for about six months. But jam can wait; the summer is young yet.
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
gluten-free chocolate cupcakes
1. Yesterday I dropped my iPhone for the zillionth time…I’ve dropped it so many times that the possibility of it breaking no longer occurs to me. Until yesterday, when the screen shattered.
2. Today was my little sister’s 20th birthday. I’m getting old. And Mary, let’s celebrate your next birthday on the west coast. Deal?
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Thursday, March 29th, 2012
triple citrus pound cake
I’m still on the citrus bandwagon…I can’t help it. I’m also on the sweet potato fry bandwagon and the grey eyeliner bandwagon…those things are neither here nor there. I think springtime is coming, right? I can’t be sure at this point. But nothing says spring to my brain quite like fresh flowers and citrus everything. My zester is getting a workout!
This is probably not your mom’s pound cake. There’s Greek yogurt inside! Living on the edge, I know. Go with me here. It’s okay…I promise it still tastes like cake. You don’t have to tell everything you know.
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Thursday, February 16th, 2012
{light} peach crumb coffee cake
My birthday is next week. I take birthdays seriously. There will definitely be a cake, there will probably be some sort of cake batter-themed breakfast pastry, and quite possibly some Rotel cheese dip. So I’m trying to keep things relatively light for now…and trying to pretend my house isn’t full of Valentines sugar.
Ryan has been traveling on business for a couple of days and I wanted to make a little treat for his return home. He loves coffee cake and let’s be honest, I don’t exactly turn it down.
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