Today’s baking whim was KAF’s Triple Berry Cinnamon Swirl Bread, but with finely diced apples instead of berries. They used a decent amount of cinnamon for a change, so no further anarchy was necessary. Very soft and fluffy inside, rather like the doughnut dough I use to make cinnamon rolls. Not super sweet (which I’m […]
The Green Banana Lovers didn’t tap out this time until there was only one banana left, which isn’t enough to make banana bread.[efn_note]One of two acceptable uses for bananas, the second being bananas Foster (sans booze for me).[/efn_note] I considered making a half batch of the batter and baking it in a cake pan to
A Duolingo lesson was suspiciously insistent that rabbits aren’t dangerous, to which I forcefully responded, “Only rabbits can eat you!” When I googled that to see where it came from, there were ZERO results on the entire wide worldly web—not a near match, not a did-you-mean, nothing. I’m wondering if it was a pre-internet garage
I’m not writing contemporary romance anymore, but I needed to do a trial run of some processes to work out the kinks before the fantasy romance is ready to go, so it seemed like a good occasion to make a bundle of the three contemporaries I self-published as Ren Benton. Thus, I bring you the
I am having a saga surrounding a publishing project unrelated to this one. The store I expected to be delayed because my account wasn’t approved until 2 days after I’d uploaded everywhere else had the book live 2 hours after I was able to log in[efn_note]And an hour of that was me having to reformat
I’ve long known my resting murder face has a lot to do with how I have to hold my jaw so I don’t constantly clench/grind my teeth, but I’ve only recently realized how much energy suppressing that consumes. So many little physical things are a constant battery drain. If somebody invented a bite guard that
I’ve been taking care of long-overdue maintenance stuff that certainly wasn’t going to get done after an extra book pushes it further down the priority list. I decided to have a no-creative-work week and get all the housekeeping out of the way so it’s no longer clawing at the fence of the enclosure where all
There sure have been a lot of opportunities lately to practice keeping my eyes on my own paper. Like most people, I’ll have a kneejerk reaction to an Inflammatory Thing, but if I take two minutes to think about it rather than responding immediately, I frequently come to a realization the Inflammatory Thing has no
Screw slice of life. It’s time for slice of bread and other baked goods! I went through my sourdough phase the year before it was cool, so I’ve made some pretty wet doughs, but King Arthur’s Pan de Cristal was my first 100% hydration. This was a spur-of-the-moment decision and of course I didn’t have
(For real this time. ‘Scuse the premature posting way back when, if you caught it in the 20 seconds it took me to frantically revert to Draft status. When you’re chronically sleep deprived, “Preview” and “Publish” are way too close together.) I’ve set a goal of writing one short story per month, both to build