Month: October 2006
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This is Halloween
In case I don’t post tomorrow, Happy Halloween, everyone! This is my first apple pie…we needed some comfort food, so I bought some pre-made pie crust and some apples, and made it up as I went along. I looked at a few recipes, and it looks like most people add a few bits of butter…
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Pumpkin Bars
I love all things pumpkin, but I usually don’t start cooking with it until the fall. I think it’s the ascetic in me, trying to save this pleasure for a specific time of the year, so as not to “use it up” or tire of it. I do that a lot. When I was younger,…
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Please vote!
Last weekend Justin and his pal Bud participated in Bloodshots, a 48-hour horror film competition. They had just two days to script, film, and edit a short movie…and they were given certain rules to follow. Their film had to include: * A sub-genre of “Backwoods” * A fanny-pack as a prop * A weapon based…
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Skillet Pizzas
I made up this recipe ages ago, in an attempt to use up half a jar of pasta sauce. It has served to feed us when time was short or money was low, and it’s so adaptable that it can be as simple or as complex as you’d like. It’s an easy, oven-less way to…
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Sweetness
So many sweet things in my life at the moment: * This unbelievably delicious honey, given to me by my friend Mandy, whose father is a beekeeper. I love it in its semi-solid state, grainy and delectable, spread on toasted French bread, or whole wheat toast, or spooned into tea. Mandy was kind enough to…