Tuesdays with Dorky (and the temple of chocolate)

Posted by Mike Spoodles on June 28th, 2008 filed in baking, food

Gold, I tell you! Everything I touch turns to gold! I’ve been winning grand awards left and right!
I recently won a contest at Tuesdays with Dorie, giving me a free baking cookbook (and a seat among the hallowed TWD blogroll). TWD is a baking event. Every week, a recipe is picked from the [...]

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DEAD

Posted by Mike Spoodles on May 14th, 2008 filed in personal

Okay.  I’m not dead.  But my car is.
On Sunday, my girlfriend and I were driving down a four-lane highway (2 lanes for each direction of traffic, natch) toward my sister’s college graduation.  As we were passing a tractor trailer (fully in view of his mirrors), he flipped on his turn signal.  He immediately and quickly [...]

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Loco for choco

Posted by Mike Spoodles on May 13th, 2008 filed in food

I used to love milk chocolate. Then I went on a crazy, obsessive diet and cut all chocolate out of my life for a period of years. When I finally decided to return to the realm of the healthy and the sane, the typical Hershey’s bars (even the Special Dark which contains more milk and [...]

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