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Strawberry Jam

Strawberry Jam

Last week I made strawberry jam. Big deal, right? It’s the end of May. Probably a lot of people are making strawberry jam this time of year. They’re probably even making it with their own, organic, homegrown, (yaddahyaddah) berries. Me? I just had one measly 

Sourdough Pancakes

Sourdough Pancakes

Lately I’ve been experimenting with sourdough. I had fun with it for a while, making all sorts of different things and busily researching new ideas to try when I had more time. I have yet to try the sourdough cracker recipe I found, but I 

Green Chile Casserole

Green Chile Casserole

Over the past few years, I’ve backed off a bit on the pressure I place on myself to cook the most optimally healthy food I can. The operative word is is ‘can’. What I ‘can’ do now is vastly different from what I was able 

‘Crazy’ Chocolate Cake

‘Crazy’ Chocolate Cake

This was the very first cake I made on my own when I was a kid. Since then I’ve baked a lot of chocolate cakes – most of them fancier and more complicated (especially after watching an episode of Bake Off ). They haven’t really been