Smearing ice cream on a plate, in a swirly fashion, is like yoga for the inner child who just dropped a frozen treat on the sidewalk but found Savasana instead. Smeared ice cream on a plate, it turns out, is also highly artistic. It creates a textured look for summery-looking photographs, which won’t detract too… Continue reading Pass the Plate, Hold the Cone
Author: ckennedy
Author of the DIY blog: Fixin' Leaks and Leeks. Paper/Rock Writing Consultation, Sole Proprietor.
Handle This: New Pots and Pans
If my pots and pans were cats, they’d be on their ninth life, their handles/tails dangling curiously close to hot, boiling danger. Still, I figured those pots and pans would have a little more life left in them—one more roll in the catnip, perhaps—but Nate disagreed. One day, while I was lifting a pot of… Continue reading Handle This: New Pots and Pans
Oh, What a Filling! “Dubai” Chocolate from Costco
Voluptuous viral victuals thrust themselves in my face on Instagram daily, but I usually just move on. Until I met the Dubai chocolate bar. Yes, I’m late to the party, but that’s how much control I’ve shown—and I can’t anymore. I’ve watched so many videos of people cracking open these chocolate bars on social media—and… Continue reading Oh, What a Filling! “Dubai” Chocolate from Costco
Rumming Wild: Rum and Cherry Cola with Rum-Soaked Cherries
Push a barrel of rum under a cherry tree. Do it! You’ll be so happy. I’m not sure if that’s how the Orasella Tiki Cocktail Cherries were invented, but I’m glad someone thought to combine rum and cherries and sell them at a farmers market that Nate and I visited last weekend. While there, we… Continue reading Rumming Wild: Rum and Cherry Cola with Rum-Soaked Cherries
Craft Alert: Mandala Mayhem
Watch out. One of Willie Wonka’s Everlasting Gobstoppers got stuck inside an angry, red sand worm, and it’s about to be gloriously regurgitated onto the Universe. Or, it’s a cabbage. Or, it’s a wild, wild flower, its petals caught in a gusty breeze, all the springs sprung. However you look at it, whatever I’ve made/unleashed… Continue reading Craft Alert: Mandala Mayhem
How Much Oatmeal Can You Bench?
Release the weightlifting belt from the trunk of the car. Oatmeal has arrived, and it’s swole. Protein-packed oatmeal that promises strength and a delightful chocolate chip cookie recipe found its way into the Fixin’ Leaks and Leeks kitchen, and I mistakenly believed there was actual chocolate in the oatmeal. The chocolate chip recipe on the… Continue reading How Much Oatmeal Can You Bench?
Cincerely, Cinnamon
Dear Breadheads, I know what you knead. The Fixin’ Leaks and Leeks kitchen smelled sinfully cinnamony the other day, and I say sinfully because it’s not fair that I tried out a brand-new recipe the day before Nate’s colonoscopy, when he was on a clear liquid diet. But: I did leave plenty behind. In any… Continue reading Cincerely, Cinnamon
Conversation Piece
Quick Question: Is there a laminator big enough for puzzles? Asking for a friend/me ‘cause I’m hankering for the most honkin’, humongous laminator I can find. (The answer is yes, according to the internet. Laminating puzzles is a great way to make place mats and such. Oooh! I smell a bonus project! (which smells like… Continue reading Conversation Piece
Giddy-Up, Horsetails!
I can’t find my way out of the cheese aisle at Freddy’s, but I think I just found the forest moon Endor. As you can see from the feature photo for this post, I’ve accidentally stumbled upon it. Here’s how to get there: walk aimlessly through my neighborhood, take a sharp right, and then a… Continue reading Giddy-Up, Horsetails!
Is It Cake, Or…?
Is it cake or my dream vacation home? I could live in the Land of Vanilla, where gentle waves of frosting lap yellow cake shores. Also, this cake sort of kind of looks like a giant doughnut, and I don’t hate that idea, either. Here’s the thing: I didn’t really make it myself. It just… Continue reading Is It Cake, Or…?
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