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Pumpkin Pie Fest part III: the results

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This was the scene as a hundred or more hungry graduate students descended on our group’s lunch area to take part in CSAIL Pumpkin Pie Fest: We gave out more than 200 portions of pumpkin pie, and according to some … Continue reading

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Other people’s recipes: Four & Twenty Blackbirds’ Salted Caramel Apple Pie

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[Apologies for the lateness of this post — my Internet connection went down on Monday while I was at work and didn’t come back until Tuesday morning.] The second of the seasonal pies I decided to do from Emily and … Continue reading

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Other people’s recipes: Four & Twenty Blackbirds’ Concord grape pie

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Continuing to explore the Four & Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book (Emily & Melissa Elsen, 2013), since it is now fall, it’s time to move on to that section of the cookbook, which is intended to reflect seasonally available ingredients. Among … Continue reading

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Other people’s recipes (sort of): Cherries & cream pie

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As I discussed last weekend, the cherry pie I made used less than half of the cherries I had bought. So of course I had to make something else with cherries (I didn’t want to make the same pie twice … Continue reading

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Other people’s recipes: Sweet cherry streusel pie from Four & Twenty Blackbirds

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It’s been a long while since I’ve made an actual pie — I think it would have to have been a pumpkin pie, some year around Thanksgiving. But earlier this year I bought The Four & Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book … Continue reading

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Chocolate tasting: week 1

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As I mentioned a few posts ago, I wanted to organize a chocolate tasting. We have a small group of chocolate-lovers in CSAIL, and next Tuesday will be our first of at least six weekly tasting sessions. During this time, … Continue reading

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A tour of the Hale Telescope

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My parents recently moved to San Diego, and I flew out for Mothers’ Day weekend. On Saturday, I suggested that we all go up Mt. Palomar, in the very northern part of San Diego County, to take the public tour … Continue reading

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