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Sunday’s Cake: Olive Oil-Rosemary–and a note about Friday’s Cocktail

I’ve always wanted to try a savory cake, something earthy with a hint of sweetness.  When I first presented this option to the husband, he wrinkled his nose.  Olive oil?  Rosemary?  So I put off making this for some time…

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Sunday’s Cake: Orange-Cranberry w/ White Chocolate Glaze

Just when you thought you’d seen enough cranberries…this is actually a little bit of a mash-up.  I’d found a recipe that called for orange juice and zest but reviews complained that the cake was dry.  Plus, I wasn’t sold that…

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Sunday’s Cake: Red Velvet Chocolate Chip w/ White Chocolate Glaze

Ever wonder how a red velvet cake was invented?  The night before last, I was talking to (the wonderful) Michelle Bayuk of Egmont USA because we just happened to be at the NCTE and out at dinner.  Anyway, red velvet…

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Sunday’s Cake: Pumpkin Chocolate Chip

Hey, guys, So, lacking anything substantive to say–or maybe I’m just tuckered out at the end of a long week (vacation or not)–I figured, what the heck: post Sunday’s Cake and the recipe link, and there you go. One caveat…

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Happy Enough: The Not-So Warm and Fuzzies of Amazon

Actually, this is going to be a brief post, short and sweet.  I’ve had very mixed feelings about the whole Amazon/Hachette brouhaha, and I will admit to being a little intimidated about coming out with what I think.  I mean, really, who…

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Missing the Life of Live TV: Unplugged A Month and Counting…

About a month unplugged, and I’m having withdrawal.Seriously.  Today was the first day of Saturday college games, and I’ve been climbing the walls, I really have, and it’s been made worse by folks–yes, I’m talking to you, Kevin and Bonnie–mercilessly…

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If You’ve Nothing Nice to Say . . .

Remember that old saw: If you’ve got nothing nice to say, say nothing? Your mom probably trotted out that old bromide when you were mercilessly torturing your brother or being likewise cutting in some dastardly way. In other words, you were…

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Writers Getting It Right

There’s this fabulous scene in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall –where this know-it-all pontificates about Marshall McLuhan–that sets the stage for what I’m about and where I’m at today.  Take a sec to watch this–or if you know the shtick already,…

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Unplugged: The Prequel

Okay, before you go any further, a disclaimer: this is all about first-world problems.  You might be better off reading a book or–better yet–get outside, breathe some fresh air, go kayaking or hiking or something.  I’m serious. But, just in…

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