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baking webseries

SiftingRealities: Baking with the Director #1: Oatmeal Butterscotch Chip Cookies

This is the first episode of Baking with the Director the companion series to SiftingRealities (my web series) and my YouTube debut.

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baking

Speaking of Birthday Cake…

My sister, Heather, requested the following cake for her birthday this past weekend: strawberries with a light chocolate cake and no icing. I quickly informed her that cake WAS heavy and that I couldn’t possibly make a cake without icing, but I could try a glaze instead of some crazy thick cream cheese icing (which […]

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baking gardening webseries

Sifting Realities: Pilot

So… what has been occupying practically ALL my time these days?? SiftingRealities: web site, youtube, twitter & facebook fan page SiftingRealities is a webseries… my first foray into online distribution and, as soon as it finishes compressing, I will be posting the pilot episode.  Please check it out!  Reviews, comments and referrals are gratefully (& […]

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baking

Birthday Cakes

It is a steadfast rule in my home that the birthday boy/girl gets to select what kind of cake they would like for their birthday celebration …and then I attempt to make said selection. Michael always picks cheesecake… for almost 10 years now, at least from the moment he first tasted my cheesecake, this has […]

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cooking gardening

Perogies #FAIL

So… I made an attempt at whole wheat perogies last evening… perogies are something I had been craving but, given my white flour sensitivity (as in I can’t seem to digest it without a lot of pain and suffering), I haven’t had them in years.  Ah, cottage cheese and onion perogies… boiled then fried with […]

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writing

New story idea today…

…though I was supposed to be locking cut on SiftingRealities, Episode One today, I did take a few moments to jot down a few scenes floating around in my head. One of them kind of goes like this: He didn’t much like taking the lead, but no one else was communicating effectively. He turned to […]

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blog

Testing themes….blog

this one has three columns… not too sure I like that, but I like the colour scheme.  Hmmm… ETA: this one seems simple and clean.  Could be a keeper.