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  • Leg Lamp Cookies: Year Two

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    3:39 PM: The first batch (and by batch I mean three) of mihow.com holiday leg lamp cookies was put into the oven. In 8 minutes I will know if there will be a Christmas this year at all. 3:49 PM: Last year was sort of a disaster so this year I changed my recipe a…

  • Soccer, Homemade Ravioli, and Flying.

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    Tobyjoe is leaving for Boston today. He’s heading up there to attend a Ruby on Rails class. And I’m stuck here all by myself. My soccer league starts tomorrow and although my team doesn’t yet have a name, and our game is all the way up in Foreverawayville (138th Street), I’m looking forward to trying…

  • Michele and Tobyjoe Bake Scones.

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    It has begun. I’m going to figure out – once and for all – if I like scones. Tonight we’re making cranberry oat scones. Wish the scones luck. Preheat the oven to 375. I laid a piece of parchment paper on a baking sheet. I set it aside. Then I removed all cats from your…

  • This is a Post About Egg Salad

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    I have been wanting to bring this up for so long and then I just never get around to it. Today, I’m going to finally do it. Why can’t I get my egg salad to taste like it does when I get it from the delis around town? What am I doing wrong? Is there…

  • I Don’t Know If I Can Take It. Because It Took So Long To Bake it.

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    About two weeks ago while making x-rated cookies for Toby Joe I had a brilliant brainstorm. I decided it’d be a wonderful idea to make leg lamp cookies for all my faraway friends. I started out using gingerbread. The first batch turned out OK. I hand cut them all. The ones you see below were…

  • Fun with Splenda: Healthy baking, take 2

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    Today, I will be making a chocolate, mixed berry pie. I am going to wing the chocolate. And I worry a bit about how it will end up. I’m using baker’s chocolate and I’m going to add my own sweetener. You can witness the birth of yesterday’s blueberry pie by clicking here. For dinner, it’s…

  • Blueberry pie

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    Lately, I have been exploring “healthy” baking. Last week I made an apple cobbler. I used whole wheat flour, apples, a few tablespoons of Sugar In the Raw, two tablespoons of lite butter, cinnamon and nutmeg. The entire pie was about 700 calories. (That’s good, right?) Tonight, I wanted to try a blueberry pie. I…

  • Nothing doing

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    What a nice weekend. On Friday I put a Zipcar on hold and Toby and I went grocery shopping at Whole Foods. We spent a lot, but it was worth it. I’ve been doing a lot of baking lately, so we bought some bulk chocolate chips and flour and the like. Jason popped over around…

  • Muffins and banana bread.

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    I made banana bread yesterday. It turned out quite good, if I must say so myself. Last night we were laying in bed watching the TV. And Toby was on his third chunk of the stuff. He turned to me for about 3 seconds, turned back and his banana bread was gone. He thought to…

  • Toby's Bday

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    Last night was fun. I left work a bit early to run to Sticky Fingers in order to pick up a cake I ordered for Toby. After picking up the cake, I dropped it off at the Ethiopian restaurant and let them know we’d be back by 5:30. I brought some candles too. :] So…