August 2011
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Sweet Basil & Olive Oil Cupcakes
This summer, I started volunteering at a local food co-op. Every month, a member of the co-op hosts a potluck party, and this month’s shindig was scheduled for yesterday.
Well, it was scheduled; then Mother Nature decided to step in and throw a hurricane-tornado-apocalypse at the eastern seaboard. Needless to say, that -ish got cancelled.
But my Saturday night shift partner and I were...
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Banana Espresso Chocolate Chip Muffins
Earlier in the summer, I spent a week in Vermont attending a workshop at the Center for Cartoon Studies. (Yep, I went to comic book school.) I met many an awesome person there, one of whom I promised to become pen pals with and send baked goods to.
Today, I finally made good on that promise. I had asked my comic book friend what kind of baked goods he might like, and one of the items he...
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Pineapple-Mango-Papaya Bars
When I recently launched my baking blog, The Butter & Sugar Brigade, and consequently posted about it on Facebook, a friend of mine responded by saying, “Please make me everything on this website.” Of course, I’d be more than happy to oblige, I told him, but why not make something new to post and share with my loyal readers? So I told him, pick a flavor, and I’ll...
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Homemade Twinkies
(Photo courtesy of Joy the Baker)
So recently, I celebrated the birthday of a friend by packing up some specially-selected picnic items and watching a screening of Ghostbusters in Brooklyn Bridge Park. By specially-selected, I mean that all the food had some relation to the movie; and I went with the theme of Egon’s favorite junk food: Cheez-Its, Crunch bars, and, of course, the...