Is there something in your life that haunts/taunts you? I have a carrot cake, but I might be ready to release my obsession. 

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There are so many good Food Holidays in July that I wanted to make sure you were prepared. 

Also a reminder about RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT. 

The Storm Episode reads better than "Yet Another Episode About Dead Fathers."

Update from the Farmers Market and the Garden--BLACK RASPBERRIES! 

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This week's prompt of Summer Foods send me back to the Two Chocolate Cakes Origin Story. Tiny trigger warning that I do talk a little about past disordered eating (mine) so forewarned! 

Also next Saturday is Anthony Bourdain Day. Should we do a fundraiser or something? Maybe bring a bag of non perishables to your food bank in his honor. I'd really love that. ❤️🍓🌻

I also went to the farmers market today with only ONE SMALL BAG so I could only get tomatoes because I refuse to use plastic bags.  I'm absolutely gonna send the Patreon folks reusable produce bags but if you send some food to your local food bank for Anthony Bourdain Day, I'll totally send you a few, because if there is ever a place where plastic bags have no business, it is at a Farmers Market.

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I hope you like jammin' too.

What to do when jam doesn't set up? No, really. There's no deeper meaning here. No metaphor. My jam is saucy not firm. I used up almost $40 worth of strawberries and 3+ hours of time and my jam didn't set. 

Do you remember what you had for food at your wedding because I don't. I even went through and looked at pictures. I remember the cake though! I'll throw some pics up on the twochocolatecakes.com site so you can see it. It was spectacular. 

Anyway, in this episode I talk about how invasive weeds in my neglected garden are a heavy-handed metaphor that I didn't even realize until I was more than halfway through writing this. Funny how that works out. 

Also: new segment alert: Cookie Correspondent! 

No farmers market this morning though--going tomorrow. Will update the Twitter if there's anything interesting but I suspect strawberries are over (I probably have 8 lbs in my freezer)  but blueberries and raspberries should be coming in! Maybe even some early tomatoes and definitely cukes. 

Reminder that there's no Two Chocolate Cakes episodes for the next month and a half or so while I write the next season, but we'll still do SideCars on the weekend, plus every other week drops of The AJENDA Podcast with Jen Golbeck/GR MOM from Golden Ratio. 

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And so we come to the end of Season 1 of Two Chocolate Cakes, and it is with one of the most bland meals out of the entire series, but still a meal I love more than anything--it is a comfort meal that I eat even now, many years later.  It is also one of the only kinds of meat I can manage to cook myself! Well, besides hotdogs. 

I hope you have enjoyed this first season of Two Chocolate Cakes and I am excited to bring you Season Two before the end of the summer! 

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So 10 years ago today my father parted this mortal coil and it is a much bigger story than what you get today but I like to mark the day, and today, I marked it with you and as such, you're getting it a day early. I'll put a few pics up on the twochocolatecakes.com site about that 10 year journey to get here. 

Recording notes: I am recording this on the actual anniversary, from Ben's parents, and there are little noises because I don't have a lot of control over sound here so, sorry about that if you hear stuff. There's also a perfectly time Waffles sigh in there. 

No Farmers Market news today although maybe we'll go out tomorrow and see if there's a local market somewhere. xoxo

a brief history of some of my favorite cats, and their favorite drug of choice. 

Spoiler alert: like many of the stories in this series, it is sad. 

So, once upon a time, before the great sickness, I loved to travel...