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A few weeks back someone died on the other side of the world. Not uncommon. Happens every second or two, on average ( Read more... )

Dessert concoction is something that generally has eluded me but intrigues me, because baked goods are tasty. Unfortunately those times when I fancy something sweet to munch on tend to be entirely disjoint from those times when I feel like putting the time and effort into baking something ( Read more... )

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The accompanying photo is of my great-aunt Liza. A less than recent photo, to be sure. Born in Lithuania, and traveled to Australia with her husband and my grandfather as a displaced person after my ancestors fled to Germany to avoid the returning Soviets during the second world war. They hated the term "displaced persons ( Read more... )

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Not cooking for anyone else at home at the moment has left me with room to experiment. Crazily ( Read more... )

Apparently I've been back for a month and then some ( Read more... )

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