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Whole Wheat Blueberry Coffee Cake

September 6, 2010
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So the only thing that didn’t go swimmingly in our whole Maine wedding cake baking process was the math. Math? Yes the math that we did to figure out how much of each ingredient we would need to make enough cake batter to fill our pans. We thought we would need WAAAAY more batter than [...]

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A Maine Wedding Cake

September 3, 2010
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So where were we? Oh yeah, I had a cake to share with you! After a major furniture rearrange in our rental house and the better part of a day, we had one beautiful cake. It’s amazing what 18 sticks of butter and 7 pounds of powdered sugar can turn a humble blueberry cake into! [...]

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Why We Went to Maine

August 30, 2010
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So you all know I went to Maine for my summer vacation (as evidenced by the lobster sightings) but I don’t know if I ever told you why. They’re why. They are Ryan and Eli. Ryan is one of Noel’s oldest friends. Eli is his rockin fiancee wife. And they were getting married, at Eli’s [...]

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Blueberries and Peaches at Larriland Farms

August 16, 2010
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On this past cloudy Saturday, Noel and I had a little adventure. We headed west out of the city into the green Howard County farmlands. Our destination–Larriland Farms, my favorite pick your own spot. Although Larriland is just 22 miles outside of Baltimore, it feels like a different world out there. I had only ever [...]

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Carrot Zucchini Muffins

August 13, 2010
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Since my junior year in college–after the ill-fated first year of college and the dread freshman 15 + the bonus sophmore 15–and the need to work it off, I’ve been kind of a fitness nut. Some even like to use the term gym rat, although as a person who has had actual real life encounters [...]

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Peach and Blueberry Cornmeal Crusted Cobbler

July 30, 2010
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Ah, cobbler. One of my first, and favorite, summertime food memories. First and favorite, because you see, my mom’s family is from the South. And there are few things southerners enjoy like fresh fruit covered with tasty biscuit dough–aka cobbler. Okay, maybe they enjoy stuff fried in bacon grease more, but trust me, cobbler is [...]

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Blueberry Cheesecake Bars

July 16, 2010
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Or, why I’m having a hard time giving up dairy. After my two weeks of deprivation, I was desperate to bake. And no, that’s not an overstatement. For me, baking is this itch–and after a while, I’ve just GOT to scratch it. Noel says I’m like an addict looking for my next hit, but I [...]

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Strawberry (Canned!) Jam

June 28, 2010
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All spring long, i’ve been taking baby steps towards this point. The point where I make REAL jam. You know, the stuff that lives in jars and is shelf stable. The stuff you can open in the dead of winter for a bit of summer. It started with more than a few batches of rhubarb [...]

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