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hello, december: low calorie pumpkin-chocolate chip muffins

  • December 1st, 2011
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Like most people, I think, I’ve fought with my weight for several years now. I’m a healthy weight for my ridiculous height (6’0″), but that doesn’t mean I’m at a happy weight. I feel my best when I weigh about 15-20 pounds less than I do right now, just on the bottom edge of the normal range for my BMI. This, of course, is a problem for someone who lists one of her top five interests as “cheese.” My favorite food groups are carbs and dairy. Couple that with the fact that I work at a computer and I truly [...]

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race to the (faux) finish

  • October 18th, 2011
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My dears. I’ve been a bad blogger. I promise, promise, a thousand times promise I will not become one of those blogs where every other post is an apology for not posting enough. I swear. I pinky swear. I’m going to start stockpiling posts about every interesting thing I can think of so I’ve always got something for you lovely folks to read. With that being said…today’s is a good one. I know you all love a nice long before & after (as do I). This one was completed in traditional Kate Moore Half-Baked Whirlwind Fashion™, but it was an [...]

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in defense of vanilla

  • September 26th, 2011
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I’m going to be up from with you here: I’m not one of those women who goes insane for chocolate. It isn’t, of course, that I don’t like chocolate. I do. It’s pretty difficult not to like, especially when it’s nice and dark and possibly studded with sea salt or crystallized ginger. Or baked into an impossibly dense Baked brownie, the best brownie I have ever had (we’ll discuss that later). The thing is, I just feel like there are so many other flavors in the world. Who wants to eat the same old chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and [...]

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