Posts by movita beaucoup
jackie’s spicy chicken wings
On September 11th, 2.0 and I celebrated our third anniversary. We celebrated by eating 31 chicken wings. That’s how we do romance. Chicken wings followed by a good flossing of one’s teeth. I adapted this recipe from a recipe 2.0’s mummy, Jackie, gave us. 2.0’s sister, Kim, told me they were like, the best chicken…
Read Morehow to make fabric flags
Do you like little flags and banners? Of course you do. Everybody does. And don’t you think they’d be perfect on top of, say, a birthday cake? Sure you do. You could probably even find other uses for them. And I bet you’re thinking: movita, I can’t make my own fabric flags! No way! No…
Read Morechocolate zucchini bread
We’ve still got zucchini coming in. Almost every day, 2.0 tells me about how many more zucchini are appearing on the vines in the veggie patch. “Two more,” he’ll yell as he runs into the house. He washes them, sets them on the counter, and then winks. And I don’t want to complain, but people:…
Read Morecake decorating class { 4 }
I arrived for my final cake decorating class after a day spent painting the main floor of my house. I could hardly move my arms and smelled like arse end of a skunk. We were supposed to bring a final project to work on during class. I had big plans to bring a cake — to…
Read Morezucchini bread and/or muffins
This is kind of an unofficial veggie patch update: WE HAVE A MILLION ZUCCHINIS AND MORE COMING BY THE MINUTE. I’m not freaking out or anything. I mean, you all warned me that zucchini is prolific, so I was kind of prepared. And the freezer can probably hold a lot of zucchini bread, right? And…
Read Morehappy anniversary
Three years ago today, I met 2.0. September 11th is a weird day for a lot of people. Some bad stuff went down. But when I met 2.0, I knew I wanted to take him home and bake things for him. You know, forever. It made September 11th one of the best days ever. And…
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peach cobbler
Do you like peaches? I do. At least, I do when they are de-furred. String beans, kiwis, peaches: what’s up with the fuzzy exteriors? When 2.0 and I stood before some peaches at the market, he told me he really didn’t like them. (Has the fur has been throwing him off too?) So I told him I’d…
Read Morecake decorating class { 3 }
The third of my cake decorating classes was far more successful than the first two. At the end of the previous class, we were given a long list to accompany the magazine-style syllabus that comes with the course. Class Instructor had carefully listed each of the icings we would need for our third class, and…
Read Morecake decorating class { 2 }
Truth be told, I wasn’t looking forward to my second cake decorating class. No, that’s not entirely true. I was looking forward to it, but the class fell on the last day of a course I was taking at work, and I was exhausted from dancing and shoving information into my brain. Various icings in different colours…
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