Jack’s Birthday Cake

Here is the old fashioned chocolate cake as an old fashioned chocolate cake. See previous blog entry for recipe. Nigella’s Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake

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Spring has Sprung! Finally!

It’s absolutely glorious outside! Spring is finally here. I am just so happy! I have been riding my bike to work for the last 4 days! It’s a little nippy in the morning, but warms up throughout the day. It really is lovely!! Everything is in bud-mode. The bushes I really cut back last year [...]

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Dinner with Barb, Kevin and Megan!

Nigella’s Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake (I made Cupcakes!)
The easiest chocolate cake you’ll ever make (and icing…fabulous!)

Cake
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup superfine sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/3 cup best-quality cocoa
1 1/2 sticks soft unsalted butter
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons good-quality vanilla extract
2/3 cup sour cream ( I used low fat yogurt, plus 2 tbsp [...]

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Where the heck have you been?

Lazy is all. Lazy lazy lazy. I’ve been cooking, just too damn lazy to write about it. Here is a wonderful fish stew recipe I made yesterday (made it up on the fly, actually, so the measures are a little loosey goosey! Whichever way you make it, these flavour combos will not fail).
Fish Stew (serves [...]

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