I’ve been quiet. I haven’t really had much to say, really. I put up my most recent entry two months ago and since then, I have survived another incredibly busy SXSW, started a temp proofreading/copyediting job, applied for jobs and fellowships, traveled to Boston for a conference, finished out the semester (probably my last at [...]
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Processing (Chocolate Cobbler in the Crock Pot)
Posted by boxingoctopus on May 15, 2012
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Figs in Syrup
My apologies for the unannounced hiatus. This semester is kicking my hiney. My mantra these days is COME ON, DECEMBER. (Meanwhile, I also am in a constant headspin, all, “Where the hell did September go? Oh crap, LK’s birthday is in two weeks and we haven’t planned a party at all! Eep!”) Of course, I’ve [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on October 6, 2011
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/figs-in-syrup/
Baked Sunday Mornings: Grasshopper Bars (and a Slow Food Quiz Bowl wrapup)
I don’t think I’ve ever had a grasshopper bar before, nor have I had the drink. I think I might have had a bite or a slice of grasshopper pie at one point in the distant past, but not in any recent memory I can access in my mind grapes. That’s probably because all things [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on August 14, 2011
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/baked-sunday-mornings-grasshopper-bars/
Shoofly, don’t bother me
One of the obsessions that has emerged from my dissertation research is women’s personal recipe collections. Now, there are already books written about women’s cookbooks as material artifacts, so I don’t think I’ll ever write one myself. That said, I think they’re a fantastic way to piece together a profile of a woman. And sometimes [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on August 11, 2011
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/shoofly/
Not the Pits Granola Bars
I’m always looking for new and exciting things to put in the Big Kid’s lunch box. Having a full-time summer job this year has meant that BK goes to day camp, one that doesn’t serve lunches. So, summer break has not translated into a break from packing his lunch. I will admit to having fallen [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on July 13, 2011
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/not-the-pits-granola-bars/
On failure
These were supposed to be black-bottom cupcakes, as seen here. I made them in anticipation of a girls’ night in I’m having here at my house tonight with some friends from school. Kind of a big difference, no? I think that the combination of using mascarpone instead of regular cream cheese and overfilling the muffin [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on June 18, 2011
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/on-failure/
Strawberries three ways
Much of my childhood is pretty hazy, but I do remember really loving going to my Great Aunt Edna’s house in the spring and raiding the strawberry plants in her back yard. My cousins and I would pick as many as we could, snitching unwashed berries while we picked, then taking what remained of our [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on May 21, 2011
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