A fig walks into a bar…

It’s official. The fact that the first “hot” day in Portland renders me wishing it was cooler is surely a tell-tale sign that I’m a… wait for it… Portlander. Of course I’ve gone through several of the iconic Portlander initiations already. Converting to a hop head and shunning all other beer that once I knew [...]

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A Tree Stump

I won’t pretend to have an excuse for not posting anything to this blog for the last, ahem, 5 months. I have some excuses of course but they’re trivial (like being busy/ worn out from work and not having a photo studio at home… aka laziness). I wasn’t planning on blogging at all until I [...]

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The casualities of baking

No, I’m not talking about burnt muffins or sunken in cupcakes. I’m talking about my fingers. My arms. My knees. Even my toes. I never thought about baking being hard work, but damn! One week at my new job made everything on my body sore. Work was of course compounded by 6 hours of class [...]

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So much to do, so little time.

So the truth of the matter is I’m getting married in a few weeks and therefore seem to be finding myself with only minute and sporadic amounts of free time.  In all honesty it will probably be 2011 before I seriously get back to writing on this thing.  Until then, here’s some stuff I’ve actually [...]

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Il gelato vegano perfetto!

Penso che io abbia finalmente risolto la ricetta per gelato vegano.   Tento sempre di farlo piu’ sano, ma qualche volta si deve compromettere.  Ma e’ ancora abbastanza sano perche’ non ho usato il latte’ di cocco che e’ pieno di grasso. Lo chiamo <<gelato>>, ma forse sia proprio come gelato americano, oppure <<ice cream>>.  [...]

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My best icing ever.

The texture was perfect!!  Chocolate merlot cupcakes with merlot frosting.  Got the idea from this creative lady.

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Dear Blog, I’ve been cheating on you.

Sorry about that.  In trying to balance my schedule between Middle Earth, Italy and lost passwords I have totally neglected you.  But it gets worse.  Or better.  Or maybe just different…. The other day Samantha from Novels Eats invited me to take part in a thing called Lunch.  It’s a website for reviews of this, [...]

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Felice giorno di San Valentino

Valentine’s day is just another superb reason to make cupcakes. Cappuccino cupcakes with espresso pastry cream and buttercream frosting.  Molto gustoso!

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sorry…

I haven’t had any free time lately – I can barely find time to hang up my laundry it seems.  I’ll be back at some point, but don’t hold your breath (or write me off completely).

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Felice Anno Nuovo

Though I’m sitting here with a hangover (but what would New Year’s Day be without one??) and I’m not necessarily looking forward to starting school, and work, in a couple days, I’m honestly excited for the upcoming year.  I’m typically a scrooge about the holidays and always see them for what they really are – [...]

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