B is For Bread

I have tasted fancy dishes and eaten at fine restaurants many times in my life. I have sampled the strange and unfamiliar. I have found fresh favorites and discovered new ingredients, but nothing tastes so delicious to me as the flatbread I ate as a child.
Tortillas de harina, a bread made out of wheat flour and enriched [...]

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Julie & Julia

I finally saw this movie last night. I loved it. The clothes, the look, the setting, everything was beautiful. I’m surprised they filmed a lot of it in New York, finding that out made me really nostalgic for it, and I sighed with longing to the time when I lived there years ago.
I have never [...]

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My Favorite Chocolate Cake

I love this cake! I first made it for my daughter’s fifth birthday party this past May, and since then it has become my favorite chocolate cake. It is soft, light, and very moist. It is also an unfussy cake, it doesn’t need icing, but it’s delicious with it too.
I found the original recipe in [...]

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Wordless Wednesday

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Ramblings

Right-wing Hate: I read a couple of days ago about a pastor somewhere out West who prays from his pulpit for the death of Barack Obama. This religious nut waves his Bible and quotes from the scripture to justify his despicable wish. It’s pretty safe to say that liberals universally despised George W. Bush and his policies, and [...]

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All The Pleasures Prove

My summer in America has begun, and as I mulled words and tried out sentences while writing this post, it became clear to me that every pleasure I have enjoyed since I landed a little more than two weeks ago, from taking a walk in the soft morning sunshine, to the quiet comfort of my parents’ [...]

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