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A batch of 3-inch blueberry pies, minus the one the baker ate for breakfast (7 total)

A single blueberry mini-pie, held in the palm of the baker’s hand to show the pie is about palm-sized.

An evolution of tiny pies! Here on the fourth try they’re looking much better

Six three-inch blueberry pies with double crust. There are little stars cut out of the top crust, not that anyone can tell.

These blueberry mini pies are not pretty, but they are delicious. It’s all I can do not to eat four of them right now.

Two Five Layer Bars on a small square plate. They look delicious.

These go by a lot of different names, but I call them Five Layer Bars. Made them for my D&D group last night, and I am quite pleased with the results.

I know, right? The flour people with a flourless cake. It was great, though - the kind of intensely chocolate thing that calls for a cup of coffee or a glass of red wine. Or vanilla ice cream, depending on how you roll.

A chocolate cake with a powdered sugar mandala design on top

A chocolate cake with a powdered sugar mandala design on top

Tonight’s adventure: flourless chocolate cake (using the recipe from King Arthur)

Gonna change my job description to Brat Taming now.

Close-up image of a dozen 3-inch chocolate pecan pies.

Fifteen three-inch chocolate pecan pies on a baking sheet.

Today’s project: tiny chocolate pecan pies. Confession: I used store-bought mini pie shells. Still delicious.

I don’t think I’ve ever been colder than that in my life.

Three books from Kimberly Lemming’s Mead Mishaps series: That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon is at the top of the stack.

Looking for fun, funny, sexy escapism in These Trying Times? Kimberly Lemming’s Mead Mishaps series is full of fated mates, sexy demons, and Black female leads who are equal parts smart, hilarious, hot, and charming. I tore through all three pretty fast because I was having such a good time.

Kobushi ni mimizuku 1 print : woodcut, color. | Print shows an owl perched on a magnolia tree branch; the magnolia blossoms are embossed.

No, just a superb owl. This guy, I assume: www.loc.gov/resource/jpd...

A loaf of focaccia, half of it cut into slices.

We’re on round five of focaccia now, and I think I’m getting the hang of making sure the dough is properly hydrated. Used AP flour instead of bread flour based on my internet research, and that seems to have been a good move.

My suggestions when it’s time: Bread Flanders, Shaun of the Bread, or Breading Kink

MADDIE PRYOR! Omg, do I actually know another Steeleye Span fan besides me and my brother?

It is the first one! I enjoyed it enough that I'll probably pick up the next one after I finish this The Dark Is Rising reread that I'm about to kick off.

A book cover with the silhouette of two women and a futuristic skyline in the background. The title is The Mimicking of Known Sucesses, author Malia Older.

Just finished with The Mimicking of Known Successes, which is both sci-fi and classic gas lamp mystery all at once. The world-building is fascinating (if hard to visualize), and I loved the characters. Also, space lesbians.

Oh, you voted Republican because you wanted to save babies? USAID saves babies, you absolute fuckwit. Our health care agencies save babies. Birth control and comprehensive sex ed and social programs that serve mothers and children save babies. You made the baby-killingest vote you possibly could.

Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.

Chocolate peanut butter chip cookies on a cooling rack.

Making chocolate peanut butter chip cookies for the potluck at the local Unitarian church. I haven’t voluntarily set foot in a church in years, but their service today is centered on social justice action, so here we go.

Tananarive in an evening gown at a baby grand piano with a white folding chair.

The new regime's racism just helped inspire what I predict will be the Blackity Blackest Black History Month in a while.

Reposting this photo to commemorate the festivities.

Also, a whole mood.

#LiftEveryChairandSwing

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later

Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

Sorry I'm just in a really bad place right now (United States)

Homemade croutons on a baking sheet

Homemade croutons

Are these homemade croutons ever going to see a salad? I mean, maybe, but we’re going to eat more than half of them as snacks.

We used to mix it in a blender with frozen lemonade. The guys called it Touch of God.

Wallace Stevens was apparently talking a lot of shit for a weedy little insurance guy.

Any time!

Fresh fettuccine with marinara sauce and slices of grilled chicken, with a piece of focaccia on the side.

The yield of a day of project cooking: fettuccine with marinara, grilled chicken, and focaccia — everything from scratch!

I suppose that’s one way of prioritizing, lol

Just started on "The Mimicking of Known Successes"! I'm only a little ways in, but I'm enjoying it a lot. My love of gaslamp settings continues even when they're on Jupiter.