Last week, my kitchen contractor set up my shiny new Kitchenaid double-oven range. I had big plans to christen the oven with an epic triple layer red velvet cake made from scratch, but decided to play it safe and stick with a tried-and-true recipe: the Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook’s recipe for vanilla cupcakes with buttercream frosting. […]
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Burnt Caramel Orange Custards
Last week, an article made the rounds amongst my group of friends. A pop culture blogger had created a Tumblr depicting the breakup of a TV couple. It was written from the point of view of the male character, who had announced the breakup by blogging the music video for Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love”. When […]
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My senior year of college, my friends and I decided that we had had enough of Portland’s “drabbyness”. We’d come from larger and far more diverse cities like Seattle, San Francisco, and Houston, and we claimed to miss the “sophistication” of big city life. Oh, to be 21 and trying so hard to be grown-up! […]
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Guys, I recently discovered Martha Stewart’s site. And it is AMAZING. I know I’m a little late to the party, but forgive me, I didn’t grow up in the US — we didn’t have Martha Stewart TV shows and magazines in the Philippines and the Netherlands. So the first time I had actually […]
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