It started out innocently enough. “I’d like a full-sized cake for my birthday” was Adam’s request. “I don’t like the frosting-to-cake ratio in cupcakes.” “Ok,” I said. “A full-sized cake. I’m on it.” “Either chocolate cake with white frosting or yellow cake with chocolate frosting. But not dark chocolate,” the request continued. “Ok,” I said. [...]
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Happy happy birthday to Adam, the love of my life! I love you always! More on the cake later…
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Dinner was a plate of random: Oven-roasted black pepper and garlic potato slices with… A butterflied and pounded and lightly breaded and pan “fried” chicken breast with… Cucumbers in tzatziki sauce. Redundant? Yes. Delicious? Also yes. Why the random dinner? Well, it’s Adam’s birthday tomorrow, and I have a project to complete… You all know [...]
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You all know that I go a bit nutty around birthdays. I make 3-course meals, bake an inordinate amount, and generally celebrate my friends and family in the best way I know how. Many of you have already expressed interest in being one of my coworkers simply for the fact that I bake and cook [...]
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Last school year, I instructed you, my lovely readers, to be jealous of my coworker. It was my teammate Matt’s birthday and, due to my budding cupcake hobby, I made him some decadent (and as he said, heart-attack inducing) brownie cupcakes. He was the first person at work to get cupcakes made specifically for him, [...]
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Ok, I promise, this is the last birthday-related post since, well, my birthday was almost a week ago. On Saturday night, a group of my closest friends and family joined Adam and I at Gilt Bar, a new gastropub here in Chicago. I’d heard a few great things about it in recent months, but the [...]
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Every summer, my campers are nicknamed the “duckies” because they follow me around like a mama duck. At any given time, my girls can be found walking behind me in a line. If I turn, they turn. Sometimes, they take their nickname seriously and quack while walking to the bus! When I found these mini [...]
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Have you all missed me?? I know I’ve missed you all… but it’s been a SUPER busy week full of celebrations that went way past my bedtime most nights. Therefore, blogging has taken a back seat. But I’m back today, and make sure you’re in a comfortable seat, you have about 3 days worth of [...]
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What a day! There’s nothing like a lot of humidity at a county fair full of prize-winning animals to make for a necessary shower at the end of the day! Last year, our day at the county fair fell on my birthday. This year, being the day BEFORE my birthday, I made sure to walk [...]
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