Back when I was in library school and working full time, ThreeFifty Bakery opened and became my home away from home on Sundays. A mug of coffee and a chocolate croissant got me through some long days of homework. There’s…
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Maximize Your Coffee: Wawa
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Here’s the thing about Wawa: Free Coffee Tuesdays. Wawa isn’t in the half mile radius around my house, but on the lazy-to-cost spectrum, I’m definitely willing to be less lazy in order to get free coffee. On Tuesdays*, that’s Wawa.…
Maximize Your Coffee: McDonald’s
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I wrote a rantlet about McDonald’s coffee pricing on Facebook the other day, before starting this blog series. I am rewriting the rantlet here. As a connoisseur of cheap coffee, I have a fair amount of experience with McDonald’s coffee.…
Maximize Your Coffee: 7-eleven
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I fell in love with 7-eleven coffee at some point shortly after moving to my current home. 7-eleven is extremely close to my house (not as close as ThreeFifty Bakery, which opened after I moved here, or as close as…
Maximize Your Coffee: A New Series That I Will Likely Forget About After Two Posts
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Welcome back to my long-forgotten and oft-neglected blog. After posting on both Facebook and Twitter that I am a “connoisseur of cheap coffee” I figured I should share my hard-earned (and occasionally expensive) wisdom on how to maximize one’s coffee…
Thoughts on FOIA, Part 1
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By the title of this post, I’m implying that my thoughts on FOIA will be a series. You know me. The next post in the series might not happen for a month or eleven. They are on my to-do list,…
The Great Pandemic Baking Show: Trifle
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Whoa. Trifle is a bit…much. But what is one to do when one has most of a batch of apple pie filling left? Right. Make a pie. (Or make apple cinnamon oatmeal. Or eat it on vanilla ice cream. Whatever.)…
Great Pandemic Baking Show: Schnecken
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Season 4, episode 6: Sweet breads For over a decade, my family recipe for schnecken has been sitting in a “wouldn’t it be nice to make this” pile. I finally made them, and on one hand, the recipe is imperfect.…
The Great Pandemic Baking Show: Puff Pastry
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In The Great British Baking Show Masterclass, Mary Berry admits that she does not make her own puff pastry since it’s easier to buy it at the shops. Nevertheless, I lost my mind and decided that now would be a…
The Great Pandemic Baking Show: Lemon Tart
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Follow up to season one, episode one: what to do when you have four leftover egg yolks. What is the best thing made with egg yolks? Lemon curd. There is no room for debate here. I am right, 100%. Except…