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You want this cake…

April 17, 2012 by Peabody · 59 Comments

They say that comparison is a joy thief and whoever “they” are certainly got that right. Comparison is what makes women/men hate their bodies, where they live, what car they drive, what shoe is on their foot, etc. And it makes the food blogger get down on their blog. There have been quite a few what I will call old school food bloggers (meaning we have been around awhile) feeling not so great about their blogs or their traffic…or in my case how many people comment. Lots of people have food blogs. I mean LOTS. In just shy of two months this blog will be turning 7. Seven years of my life writing a blog about food, hockey, and sitting around in my sweatpants (they are really nice sweatpants in my defense). It makes me question at what point do I stop blogging? And it causes me to ask the question why did I start blogging in the first place? I started blogging because I was bored at home and was married to a picky eater and needed a creative outlet. Those reasons aren’t there … [Read more...]

Filed Under: cake, chocolate · Tagged With: cake, Chocolate chip, Nutella

Lots of words….

April 10, 2012 by Peabody · 55 Comments

A series of random letters…. Dear IRS, I owe you money. And while I won’t be sending you that money on Sunday I do need to get on payment plan. I filled out my taxes but you won’t let me finish them saying that I have more forms to fill out. BUT those forms aren’t available yet. Ummm. This is beyond stupid. Why is it that you can’t bring yourself to have these forms available when you expect me to have my taxes done and filed in just a few days? Dear Media, You suck. I mean really, really suck. You have been tearing apart Ashley Judd to no end lately. The minute I saw her face I knew she was on Prednisone. How? Because I have been off and on it since I was 26 years old. It will do that to your face and body. She didn’t have work done and the fact that she gained some weight doesn’t make her a cow. And speaking of what the media calls cows…Jennifer Lawrence. For those who don’t have teens at home, she plays Katniss in the movie The Hunger Games. According … [Read more...]

Filed Under: baked goods, breakfast treat, cake · Tagged With: Banana, Breakfast, cake, Chocolate chip, Crumb Topped

Best of friends…

January 4, 2012 by Peabody · 19 Comments

I don’t think best friends work for most adults. I don’t really think they work all that well for kids either but right now I am focusing on the adults. A friend of mine basically started a discussion on how we don’t really have best friends. Most of us had concluded that we had someone we called our best friend but they were back from college or even high school days and in reality knew very little about what was actually going on in our day to day lives. And we all concluded that no one we know lived like a Friends episode. I have this too. The female that most people assume is my best friend still lives in Phoenix. I probably speak to her physically on the phone maybe once a year and we text maybe a few times a month. How is it that this person is expected to be my best friend? It’s a good question and the one that we have been mulling over. I think one thing that comes into play is that people end up marrying their best friend kind of thing. When you used to run and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bread, chocolate, fruit, pudding/custards · Tagged With: Bread Pudding, Chocolate chip, orange