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Category Archives: Baking
Fancy Coffee Friday: Cake, a Dead Chicken and the Plague
Picture it, January 2nd, 2015, in southern Wisconsin where it is brown, cold and lacking snow. I’m perched at my home office desk in my workout gear after just sending off a first draft for another article at N Magazine, … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Blogging, Chickens, Fancy Coffee Friday, Gluten Free, Musings, Personal, Recipes
Tagged Amaretto Poppy Seed Cake, Chickens, crocheting, Emergen-C, Fancy Coffee Friday, goats, Hoppin' John Soup, N Magazine, Organic India, Pinterest, Rhode Island Reds, snotsicles, The Naturist Society, Tulsi Peppermint Tea, writing
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Fancy Coffee Friday*: Pinterest Failure #1
*So apparently trying to schedule posts from my phone just doesn’t work. Here is Friday’s post… on Sunday. I have always been an avid baker. My Mom made what I considered to be the most delicious bars and snack cakes … Continue reading
Sunday Morning: Hiking and Minor Hiccups
It occurred to me that I’d not done a “Go Take a Hike Sunday” for a while and Mr. Muse and I had done just that a couple Sunday’s ago. I live in Wisconsin’s Driftless Region, and we have some … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Blogging, Hiking, Personal, Photography, Random Thoughts
Tagged Alton Brown's Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies, American Players Theatre, canon 30d, Canon EF 70-200 Zoom Lens, Crafting the Personal Essay, Driftless Area, Go take a hike Sunday, Pillsbury gluten free pie and pastry dough, Spring Green WIsconsin, Strange Trip Times, The Elements of Style, Tower Hill State Park, Who to Not Write Bad, Wisconsin Driftless Region, Wisconsin River Valley
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Zucchini! It’s, what’s for dinner (and breakfast, lunch, snacks and desserts)
When you start off in the spring with a garden, your eyes are bigger than your ambition (and your stomach) and even after years of experience sometimes too many of one thing gets planted and you begin to see the … Continue reading
Recipe Time: Bob’s Red Mill ‘Muesli Cookies’
The other week as I was perusing the aisles of Whole Foods, I happened upon a mid-aisle display of Bob’s Red Mill’s Gluten Free Muesli. My Swedish friends often regale me with stories of muesli for breakfast and I have … Continue reading
Sinfully Delicious – Mexican Hot Chocolate Snickerdoodles
I know you were all hoping that I was referring to myself (I kind of was), but for the purposes of this post, I’m talking COOKIES! This evening, Mr. Muse and I will be joining friends for a potluck dinner … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Dairy Free, Food, Gluten Free, Musings, Personal, Random Thoughts, Vegan
Tagged baking, Bob's Red Mill, Bob's Red Mill All Purpose Gluten Free Baking Flour, Culinary in the Desert, http://desertculinary.blogspot.com, Mexican Hot Chocolate Snickerdoodles, Pinterest, sandwich cookies, Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie jar
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GF/DF Brownies? Oh yes I can!
A while ago, DH and I were having a party and I wanted to have a chocolate dessert on the menu. I figured that brownies would be perfect, but the challenge was finding a recipe that was gluten free and … Continue reading
Sunday Morning (belated)
Good Afternoon, Dear Readers! I’m a little off the ball today with the whole Sunday Morning post… so here’s why. I was out last night with eight of my nearest and dearest (that includes my husband) for a friend’s birthday. … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Gluten Free, Musings, Personal, Random Thoughts
Tagged 5k training, A Short History of Wisconsin Erika Janik, A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens, Bob's Red Mill, Comedy Club on State, Converse Sneakers, Daisy Cafe and Cupcakery, Death by Black Hole and other Cosmic Quandries, kettlebell, Kettlenetics, Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Really Good Food banana bread, Skype, Strange Trip Times
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Emily Dickinson’s Coconut Cake Recipe
The other day while perusing articles over at Blogher, I came across “What Emily Dickinson ate: Coconut Cake“. I thought to myself, “Self”, because that’s what I say to myself when I talk to myself… “Self, you like cake AND … Continue reading
Crispy Quinoa Cookies
This Gluten-, Dairy- and Soy-Free adventure can be a bit exaspirating, HOWEVER, I do come across recipes that work once in a while. Over at Ancient Harvest for all things quinoa, on the back of the box of quinoa flakes (which … Continue reading
Musings of the Amusing Muse 