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avocado, egg, and chorizo bap
i’d never heard of a “bap” until i read about it in my favorite little british breakfast book, posh eggs, a bap is a soft, round bread roll used as the foundation for a meat sandwich. in britain, baps are usually filled with sliced sausage and HP sauce, but i’m currently in sunny southern california, so i…
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croissants with strawberry basil jam
my list of new year’s resolutions tends to change pretty drastically every year. i was looking at some old journals the other day and laughed when i realized my goals in 2014 were to lose weight, go to more parties, get straight A’s, and get a boyfriend while 2016’s were to gain weight, stay in more, stop obsessing over…
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matcha tres leches cake
i usually make some sort of red, white, and blue dessert on the fourth of july. in the past i’ve made this hidden american flag cake and this star-shaped trifle with strawberries and blueberries. this year is different. i’m not feeling very patriotic. we have a president who has admitted — BOASTED — about committing sexual assault.…
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peach ice cream with sugared impatiens
i’ve gotten pretty tired of people sugarcoating the truth. i feel like i’ve had to deal with it so many times in the past month. sugarcoating might make something “easier to swallow” in the moment, but it’s really just a way to delay reality to a later date. i much prefer sugarcoating in its literal…
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chipotle chicken tacos
last weekend, i baked a bunch of brownies, cookies, and cupcakes and sold them at the farmer’s market with my fellow members of riverside democrats (our school’s democrat club) to raise money for planned parenthood. we didn’t expect to make much money, but we ended up raising over $250! after spending most of my time in high…
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german chocolate cake
is there a type of cake your mom always made for your birthday when you were growing up? i have a theory that the u.s. is roughly divided between funfetti birthday cake kids and german chocolate birthday cake kids. those always seemed to be the two flavors present at my classmates’ elementary school birthday parties. personally,…
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frankenstein cake
just like frankenstein’s monster, this cake is composed of a bunch of stuff shoved together into one whole. i opted to use leftover cake scraps instead of human and animal parts, though, and i think my creation turned out a bit better than dr. frankenstein’s. i always have tons of leftovers in my freezer after a big…
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battenberg cake
if i’m making something like cookie dough stuffed brownies or chocolate layer cake — desserts i’ve made once a week for the past few years — i can bake for hours without actually thinking about the baking itself. it’s nice, because i can watch netflix, listen to music, or just let my mind wander while my muscle…
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lucky charms cupcakes
today’s my senior prom! i’m actually feeling pretty sentimental; it will be my fourth and final year of attending. freshman and sophomore years were great (i felt very cool being surrounded by upperclassmen), but i think this year will be the best. there’s something special about attending as part of the graduating class. but it’s also crazy and sad that it’ll be…
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birthday cake oreo milkshakes
the world turned upside down last week at starbucks’ introduction of the limited edition unicorn frappuccino. the drink is described as “a sweet dusting of pink powder blended into a crème frappuccino with mango syrup, and layered with a pleasantly sour blue powder topping.” so basically blue kool-aid and mango juice blended into a vanilla…
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