It all happened in a food-induced blur: I volunteered to host the next meeting of the Traveling Pans way back in March. Sure, I could host in June! Sure! Eight people could easily fit in our dining room! And the next thing I knew, we were actually planning the event. One fun thing about hosting [...]
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I began my love affair with cupcakes about a year ago with a spring break project that went wonderfully right. Coconut cupcakes with key lime buttercream were the beginning of something that then snowballed into a full-blown obsession love affair complete with paraphernalia, souvenirs, and requests for cupcakes all over the place. I can’t say [...]
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There are some things in the cooking world that I was convinced I would never cook at home. Some things remain on that list: scallops, anything with truffles (the fungus, not the chocolate), anything deep fried, pasta, marshmallows, and hard candy. Needless to say, I’ve conquered the pasta. I conquered some non-hard candy when I [...]
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Sometimes, for no apparent reason, the baking bug bites me. Usually, I leave the baking up to my sister who is amazing at her job of being a pastry chef at a top-rated restaurant here in Chicago. Sometimes, when I bake, I end up with shapeless globs of oat-based something that taste good, but don’t [...]
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