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Are you gourd with pumpkin pie yet?
I know I know, Halloween is over, Thanksgiving is over, there are leftovers in the fridge and you’ve probably gorged on enough pumpkin pie that even a Starbucks Pumpkin Pie Latte sounds awful. But...
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Fantasy Friday: Hobbits—more baked than a cake
But Olivia you already wrote a recipe for LOTR in the last few months. Why did you develop another? 1) The Hobbit is NOT part of the LOTR it is the “prequel” and 2) Fool! Are you not aware that...
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A berry frightening cake-walk
I’m pretty sure I almost just got mugged. My hands are still shaking from the adrenaline that got pumping as I walked away hoping desperately that I wasn’t going to be followed. Never more have I...
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The meaning of expensive taste
Forget the Marmalade, lady, it’s all about the Cardamom. Gucci Gucci ya ya! I am inexorably drawn to the most expensive item in a department store. It seems to be my sad fate that I have both...
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Muffin Monday: Just an orangery old coot….
Deep down inside I think I’m really just an 80 year old man. With man boobs. Aw man. **anyone know what I’m quoting?** I seem to be a cranky old sailor (despite my penchant for sundresses and...
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Think Thin Tuesday: Salad for Bone-heads (shoulders, knees and toes!)
Do you ever have those moments of realizing something that shakes your world, makes you sit back and say “well, fuck.” This summer I’ll be turning 25 which in all honesty is still a very young age....
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Countess Crawley eschews this Oat Cuisine
Happy National Oatmeal [Raisin] Cookie Day! Now I know yesterday was all about the luck o’ the Irish but today I’m making the choice to talk about the kilt and clan of my people so plbbbbbbbbbbbbt. Ah...
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I’m too sexy for this Pesach
Here’s a dirty secret about Passover: by now most of your Jewish friends are feeling the unpleasant pressure of days of eating crackers that consist of just water and flour. It’s a pretty binding...
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Bread-Pudding it into perspective
I should note I wrote this just before the Waco disaster last night. Like an hour before. It’s hard for me to focus on anything but the news when something big and horrifying happens. That’s why the...
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Muffin Monday: Let’s Make a Date
I know so many young adult men who are single and I keep wondering why. Before you start whistling the kettle that my pot is calling black, I’m not going to yenta any of these friends unless they ask...
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Hippity Hoppity Cupcakes
You know what we haven’t talked about recently? Beer. Let’s change that. RIGHT NOW. When better than NATIONAL IPA DAY — yup we’re gonna talk India Pale Ales today guys. In the past I’ve spent a...
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Muffin Monday: Sexist jokes make me prickly as a porcupineapple
I am developing a bit of a reputation. Not the best one. I seem to be posting a lot on social media with a certain man hating tone. I’m coming across as a bit of a prickly bitch. I know it. I...
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SciFriday: Save the day, Exterminate your tastebuds
If I had a TARDIS of my own I’d be able to go back and undo the month long silence that I’ve imposed upon you all. I’m sorry. I’m so, so sorry. Explanations and insight into the trials and...
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Put that in your Pie-p and smoke it!
It seems that everything’s gone wrong Since Canada came along Blame Canada! Blame Canada! Poor Canada. Years of being the butt of US jokes about being nice, pushovers, the people too kind to know the...
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Wellness Wednesday: My Saladdiction
I haven’t known really how to share this. It’s a hard thing to talk about. It’s hard because not only do I have my own struggles with the shame and embarrassment but because I am often met with...
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Muffin Monday: Making a Mockolate out of a Muffin
“Oh come on it tastes just like chocolate.” Liar. “You won’t know the difference.” Liar. “I like it better than chocolate.” Liar and/or crazy. These were the things I heard and then thought about...
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Sweetening the chocolate-chip on my shoulder
Privilege is a hard word to discuss. Reactions range from ignorance to passionate HULK RAGED soapboxes. Some people can’t seem to stop talking about it and others seem to have a knee jerk, opposing...
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Meatless Monday: I’m not cheap, I’m just Kugel
I’ve written in the past about growing up Jew-ish and how Judaism is not just a religion, and it isn’t a race, it’s a culture. Now despite how I will protest a million times over about how you can’t...
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My Cakey Breaky Car
Dreaming of the siren Wishing for broken glass on the highway It could be so easy So. That’s what a car accident is like. I had an entirely different post that I intended to write for today. I also...
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A dish best served cold….
HERE BE GAME OF THRONES SPOILERS FOR THE NEW SEASON: Justice, revenge or retribution? Which of these is really okay and which makes us less than human? A Song of Ice and Fire (or simply Game of...
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