Savage Chicken Spice

Savage Chickens is one of my favorite comics that I check out online every Monday – Friday. Today’s had a vague baking theme and therefore I share it with you.

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Practice Makes Play

We had our first all-cast rehearsal for Courage last night. We did a round-robin read-through with the band playing the various songs we’ve been rehearsing the last few weeks. The violinist and I were the only ones going acoustic up against the guitar, bass, accordian and drums…which was actually kinda freeing for the first “performance.”
I’m still [...]

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Exploding Chicken…or Why I Prefer Baking to Cooking

I often get asked by people why I enjoy baking more than cooking. Here is why…

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Rehearsing to Be a Gypsy Punk

I spent last night rehearsing with the band for Courage. It was exceedingly cool. The crew was composed of a guitarist, bassist, drummer, violinist, accordionist and me on mandolin. The sound was so…full. It was the first time I’d played with that many people, not to mention played to be heard (rather than just blend [...]

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Sugar In The Air — The National Capital Area Cake Show

On Saturday, the Mum-in-Law and I went to the National Capital Area Cake Show in Burke, Va., to view the spectacle and splendor of cake writ large. I’ve been to two shows at this point, but this (oh god, I can’t help it) took the cake. (I know…I know…sorry.)

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Baking Something New

Hey all,
So I dropped off the face of the blogging earth, huh? Sorry to those who were checking this page out with any regularity. But it makes me laugh a little when I look at the date of my last post — October 29, 2008 — because just a week later I learned I had [...]

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