The Pros and Cons of Being Single (plus Spiced Sesame Slice)

Reasons Why Being 23 and Exceptionally Single is Awesome I have an entire big bed to myself to spread out in. When I bake a batch of cookies or a slice (see below), I get to eat the whole lot myself. I can have enormous bowls of oatmeal topped with ungodly amounts of almond butter, [...]

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Hazeretti Cookies (or Not Yo’ Italian Mama’s Cookies)

These are naughty cookies. Or, more correctly, I’m a naughty cookie baker. Not because I (once more) deviated from a written recipe in order to encompass the shortages/advantages of my still-growing pantry, but because cookies, by their very nature, are antithetical to what my doctor told me I should be increasing in my diet: saltiness. [...]

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Not Yo’ Mama’s Peanut Butter Cookies, or What’s In These Cookies (?) Cookies

Once upon a time, there was a Princess* who lived in the magical land known as Smurf Kitchen. One morning, after getting out of her magical princess bed (i.e. mattress on the floor filling in for the undelivered new bed) and being dressed by magical singing woodland creatures (i.e. her arms), she realised that she [...]

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What I Don’t Know And My First Recipe Post

There are lots of things in this world that I don’t know or understand. For example, I don’t know if any of you are interested in knowing what I don’t know or understand, but I thought I might tell you anyway. Just in case, well, you know, you are. I don’t know. So: 1. I don’t [...]

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