Sage and I had a blast making this cake. The cake itself is very chocolaty, as you can tell from this prizewinning recipe. The frosting is a ganache that I whipped up with some powdered sugar. I saved some of the original stuff for the mud puddles. The sprinkles are cows, which I thought was [...]

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Last week, I found the coolest thing on Boing Boing. They had found some fun Russian folks who had posted this particular brand of food art on Livejournal. I thought it would be a blast to cook, and indeed it was. The whole family got in on it.
First, we stuck spaghetti through pieces of [...]

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I’m continuing to love our farmer’s market. Yesterday, we got some cornmeal and some fresh pintos. The fresh ones don’t taste a thing like the dried ones, and they cook in about 30 minutes. So today, I made a pot of beans and a pan of cornbread. The cornbread was a big hit. It is [...]

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I didn’t spend any time at all making dinner tonight. Sunday, I had boiled a chicken, and Greg had deboned it. The broth was easy to defat. I boiled the broth with bits of chopped up chicken, about a cup of frozen spinach and a package of cheese tortellini for about seven minutes. Then I [...]

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