We like ALDI and most of the products we’ve bought there. If you’re not familiar, it’s a German-owned grocery chain and almost everything they sell is generic. This is a lot like Trader Joe’s, and in fact, they’re both owned by the same German family. I often wonder how similar the generic products are to…

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We love strawberry shortcake in my house. We’re also not particularly snobby about it. Gourmet concoctions? We’ll take ’em! Those funny packaged sponge cakes from the grocery store? We’ll take those, too! However, if I’m going to go to the effort of making something from scratch, I’ll try to find the best recipe. We knew…

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With so many people at home and bread hard to find in stores, a whole lot of people seem to have taken up baking. This is awesome! My friend Jen even live-streamed some bread-making to help folks get started. The second-order effect, though, is that many stores are now out of yeast. One of my…

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That’s right, these are perfect. Fight me. They’re based on these brownies and also these brownies and a whole lot of brownie taste-offs (fortunately, I have good friends who are willing to sacrifice their very bodies for the cause of brownie perfection). Photos to come if I can ever keep the brownies around long enough.…

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It doesn’t look like there’s officially (ha!) a Pad Thai Day (yet?) but this Google Doodle makes me want one… and they say, “In fact, it was today in 1945 that the tasty dish was announced the national cuisine of Thailand!”

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I discovered Audrey Assad recently (thanks to the Rabbit Room) and then realized that a bunch of her music is available on Amazon Prime Music, too. I immediately recognized the tune of her rendition of “Oh, the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus” but couldn’t place it. (I also didn’t immediately recognize that the backing vocalist…

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