To compensate for my terrible mood herein, here’s a bop about being possessed by the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe. I wish I still had a car so I could get in it and badly sing this song at the top of my lungs repeatedly for the 20 minutes it takes me to get to […]
Today’s surprise knowledge bomb was about shagbark hickory. Nature is inspiring. *toddles off to write horrifying things* And hey, it’s super cool that one can be as ancient as I am, be referred to by others as “a walking encyclopedia” (thanks, unlimited storage capacity for useless information!), and still, on a fairly regular basis, have
I had to make a dessert with slim pickings in the ingredient department, and this is how we get things like cranberry-orange coffee cake with a layer of thinly sliced canned cranberry jelly instead of studded with whole berries. It felt very much like having to incorporate the groan-inducing “surprise” ingredient on a baking competition