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Bloggeritis….

May 6, 2013 by Peabody · 18 Comments

I’m not in school. I haven’t been for a while now. For a while I was a school junkie. I went all the time. I went straight until I turned 31 and moved to WA State and the UW didn’t have the program I was in the middle of. And so I stopped. It’s funny because it didn’t seem like it at the time as it was just what I did, be the perpetual student, collecting degrees (that clearly I do so much with)but wow do I have a lot of schooling. When I had to go to jury duty and they had me fill out the form it asked how many years had a gone to school. 24. That’s a long time. That’s a long time especially to end up as a food blogger. :P Eight years of running this blog is rapidly approaching. Eight years. I don’t know if it’s because it’s been that long or because Seattle has looked like this as of late: But this girl has a giant case of senioritis except the blog version. I have bloggeritis. It’s a thing I swear. Now unlike senioritis I don’t have it because the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: baked goods, breakfast treat, cake, candy, chocolate, I might have to hurt some one if they try and take my piece · Tagged With: Banana, Butterfinger, cake, chocolate

Tart–y…

April 25, 2013 by Peabody · 9 Comments

First off congrats to Heather (of Kitchen Concoctions) who is the winner of the tart pans. She has already been contacted and the pans are on their way Heather. Sorry I was behind on that as what I thought was allergies was really a cold. I’ll be announcing the winner for the Harry and David giveaway this weekend. I went to a blogger event awhile back and they had these yummy salted caramel tarts (and since I was giving away tart pans I had tarts on the mind) that looked quite simple to make. I asked who the cater was and looked them up when I got home. I about died when I saw on their website that they charged $9 a tart for the kind I had. Nine dollars? Really. I made 6 of these for less than that. Well that’s a lie because I used Fran’s Sea Salt Chocolates and those are a bit pricey but I already had them and if I didn’t I probably wouldn’t have added them. I actually did a really good job of recreating them. I think theirs had more salt but the look is about the same. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: caramel, chocolate · Tagged With: chocolate, Salted Caramel, tart

Peabody and the Giant Peanut Butter Cup…

April 12, 2013 by Peabody · 128 Comments

Ever have so much to do that you choose to accomplish nothing? This seems to be me as of late. Only problem is it doesn’t really work. :) Procrastination is only your friend during the procrastination part…it’s the part that comes after that’s not so great. I’m procrastinating now by putting this post up. :P When we were in Idaho there was a chocolate shop that we stopped into to get some huckleberry ice cream from. They had giant peanut butter cups. I looked at them and thought, I could do that. They seemed to be made in mini tart pans. I thought I have those. What you can do and what you should do of course are two different things. :) Making giant peanut butter cups is actually pretty easy especially because I didn’t temper the chocolate because well, I was eating/using them right away. But then I had giant peanut butter cups at home. Calling my name. Oh and to answer the question just how giant are those cups…see the last photo with the Hello Kitty Band-Aids to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: candy, chocolate, peanut butter · Tagged With: candy, chocolate, Peanut Butter Cup