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SALTED-CARAMEL SIX-LAYER CHOCOLATE CAKE

December 19, 2011

Human by Jon McLaughlin on Grooveshark Musical pairing – Human by Jon McLaughlin When I asked The Professor for his advice on which angle to write this post . . . his reply was, ‘What about how much of a struggle the recipe was?’ To which I said, ‘Oh, you mean from the point of [...]

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BLOOMINGTON BITES: CLASSIC CHOCOLATE CAKE

August 16, 2011

Musical pairing – Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves by Aretha Franklin (with The Eurythmics) ‘An Adventure to the Classics‘ – As kids, my sister and I fell into two camps. I was the adventurous eater, my sister the picky one. I would pile on the spicy Indian sauces whereas my sister wouldn’t eat jelly [...]

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BLUEBERRY BUCKLE & BETTY

August 2, 2010

Musical pairing – Blueberry Hill by Fats Domino August. It’s now August. And at the end of this week, I’ll be boarding a plane that will fly me to Pennsylvania to meet a group of people I’ve only ‘met’ on Twitter to attend a one-day blogging workshop. And I’ll be flying without The Professor – [...]

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A NOT-SO-TEXAS COOKIE SHEET CAKE

July 15, 2010

Musical pairing – If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d Have Baked A Cake by Eileen Barton This post is a labor of love, and by that I mean that I count myself very fortunate to have married into one of the best families ever – and that includes my cousins on the Green side: [...]

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LET THEM EAT CAKE – LOU’S RHUBARB CAKE!

June 7, 2010

Musical pairing – Lucky by Jason Mraz As a child, I remember having rhubarb plants in my backyard and my mother making stewed rhubarb – I L-O-V-E-D it; but I also remember mother saying that the leaves were toxic and gave me direct orders that I wasn’t to eat them . . . ‘hmmm’ . [...]

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MY IN-LAWS & DORIE’S CARDAMOM CRUMB CAKE

April 15, 2010

Musical pairing – This I Know by Sam & Ruby . It’s been a rough winter for my in-laws. After months of pain meds and limping around with a bum leg, my mother-in-law had hip replacement surgery in February. The surgery required a couple of days in the hospital, home to recover, a wheel chair, [...]

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