How to Make Terrible Gnocchi
The pesto would have been better tossed with small snails than with the gnocchi I made. I know I have a tendency to toot my own horn on...
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jdettmann
Apr 17, 20152 min read
The Mysterious Chocolate Cookies of Misery
I made the cookies using an amalgamation of recipes on the internet, which I found by googling ‘cacao almond cookies’. They all contained...
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jdettmann
Nov 22, 20122 min read
Talking Turkey
Actually, this year the game of Move The Tables From The Verandah To The Garden And Back Again Thrice As The Weather Changes was knocked...
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jdettmann
Nov 13, 20123 min read
Children’s Parties for the Back-yardless
Invitations: To get the numbers up, it’s useful invite people to your party. I used Paperless Post for electronic invitations. It is...
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jdettmann
May 14, 20123 min read
Lunch Of The Week: Mushroom Barley Soup With Grilled Feta Toast
Better a terrible photo than none at all, that’s what I always say. I couldn’t put my spoon down long enough to take a photo with two...
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jdettmann
Apr 14, 20122 min read
What I’ve Liked This Week: Learning to Be On Holiday Edition
Swimming in an ocean rock pool. I am a bit slow, clearly, but I have finally discovered a place that has all the nice seawater of the...
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jdettmann
Mar 29, 20123 min read
Break It Down Now
My little family is about to take a little break. Not from each other, but from the city and work, from battling for parking and crowded...
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jdettmann
Mar 23, 20122 min read
My Kitchen’s Adequate: Or How I Resisted The Title ‘Salad Days’
Anyway, My Kitchen Rules is a cooking competition, and last night the competitors each had to choose a dish and cook it in ninety...
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jdettmann
Mar 16, 20121 min read
And Finally, Monsieur, A Wafer-Thin Mint.
As you can see, this is a very ordinary photograph of some bacon in a bain marie. Why would anyone put such a bad picture on their blog,...
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jdettmann
Jan 23, 20123 min read
Going Viral
Did you know there is such a thing as Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease? No? Well, you do now. I highly recommend not google-image searching...
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jdettmann
Jan 2, 20122 min read
A New Year, A New Way To Eat Potato Chips
More guests arrived and three cats became four; an eleven-dollar blow-up paddling pool provided at least twelve dollars worth of fun; I...
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jdettmann
Dec 19, 20112 min read
There Will Be Festivity … And A Little Bit Of Begging
Decorating: done (yes, all my bookshelves are this pretentious) There are but three shopping days left until Christmas, dear reader(s)....
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jdettmann
Nov 28, 20113 min read
Travel Gobstoppers
My kitchen is as tidy as my photographs are focused. As the day when we board a plane for a fourteen-hour flight with a toddler grows...
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jdettmann
Nov 11, 20111 min read
The Cure for Autumn Envy
What this means is that the food bloggers are always writing about the finding delicious new season apples in their farmers’ markets just...
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jdettmann
Nov 7, 20112 min read
Being One, Alphabetically
B Blueberries: why not allowed to eat unlimited quantities? C Cat: for kissing. D Doors, slamming thereof: why so annoying to parents? E...
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jdettmann
Oct 19, 20112 min read
Great Cakes in History
In the lead-up to May Blossom’s birthday, the cake preparations continue. Today’s post is an homage to some of the great cakes of my...
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jdettmann
Oct 13, 20113 min read
The Cake Files, Part I
In the lead-up to May Blossom’s birthday, there has been a lot of cake talk. First of all, her Uncle Superchief (my older brother)...
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jdettmann
Sep 22, 20111 min read
Homemade Edible Venetian Blinds
Just a quick post this morning, because I am supposed to be packing for our long weekend away. We fly this evening, and when we wake up...
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jdettmann
Sep 21, 20113 min read
Tissue Paper Pompoms: A Bridge Too Far
This coming weekend I am co-hosting a baby shower for one of my dearest friends. I love the idea of throwing parties. I start looking at...
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