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- Meatloaf Cupcakes With Mashed Potato Frosting
This should have been my entry to the Brooklyn Kitchen Cupcake Cookoff. I would have won for sure.
Triple-meat cupcakes are frosted with two types of mashed potato–beetroot-tinted and plain–and topped with green pepper sprinkles.
I’ll be flying to Iowa for a wedding at the end of this month, and these cupcakes are a preemptive step towards […]
- The Brooklyn Kitchen Cupcake Cookoff, In Which I Participated, But Did Not Win
Yesterday, at 2:45pm, my friend Raphael called with news of a cupcake cookoff at Williamsburg’s Union Pool.
“Omigod I love cookoffs! I mean, I don’t even like cupcakes, but I love to compete! I love to W-I-N! I’m so totally there!”
“Well, good luck–it’s in 3 hours.”
That certainly didn’t give me a whole lot of time to […]
- A Q, a U, and Barbara Kafka’s Chocolate Pudding
There is a bar my boyfriend and I like to go to called Commonwealth, in Park Slope. It’s become somewhat of a ritual to sit at the bar, play Scrabble and order tacos. He’s never beaten me. Last night, to be fair, it looked like he was going to–but I cut the game short because […]
- Hysterical Ageusia
I have no idea how to even begin to pronounce “ageusia”, but I can tell you that it’s the medical name for losing your sense of taste.
For six terrifying days, when I was seventeen years old, I stopped tasting. Anything.
No, I didn’t have a cold. Trying to explain ageusia is very frustrating. Almost as frustrating […]
