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Does this make you hot, baby?

I’m celebrating Valentine’s Day with someone who understands my twisted sense of humour and who is the master of the un-romance. Our first February 14th together, he took me to dinner at an esteemed restaurant with over 6 decades of history and educated me on the virtues of the McGangbang. For another year, he got me this beautiful flower: So this year,… Continue reading Does this make you hot, baby?

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Fluffy, sweet, delayed gratification

On a whim last week, I made grapefruit blood orange ginger marshmallows. I had seen the confection being made from scratch perhaps a decade ago, but it looked like a lot of effort for a treat that I had long perceived as cloyingly, flatly sweet. At the start of the year I stumbled upon the notion of using fruit juice… Continue reading Fluffy, sweet, delayed gratification