You are all AMAZING! Thanks to all of your generosity, and the promise that the last few donations will come in the next couple of days, the Online Flea Market for Pancreatic Cancer raised…. **Drumroll Please*** $566!!!!!!!!!! I kind of can’t believe it! The 5K Run/Walk is next weekend, and my donation page is open [...]
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. [...]
by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on March 17, 2011
in Baking, friends
I bet you thought you’d never see another baked good on here again. Oh were you wrong. I get as much, if not more, joy out of baking for others as I do baking for myself. That look of glee when people are surprised by a delicious cookie; the eyes-closed “mmm”-ing at the first bite; [...]
I threw together a batch of caramel the other day. I didn’t really know what I was doing, or what I would do with said caramel, but I just knew I had to use up the half cup of heavy cream that was taking up space in my fridge, and doing the culinary equivalent of [...]
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 [...]
When I was a tween, I was extremely short. Like, nickname-inducing, age-questioning short. I was at least two heads shorter than many of my “tall” friends, and a head shorter than my friends that were considered “short.” When I graduated 8th grade, they lined us up by height. The taller kids got to be in [...]