Author Archives: Jenn K

No knead green Olive baguettes

Posted on June 3, 2013

This weekend I discovered that you can grind your own whole wheat flour at our grocery store. Combine that with last weekend’s discovery off the tastiness of these vegan no-knead baguettes and you can imagine how strangely yeasty and righteous … Continue reading →

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Another site change. Sorry, folks

Posted on May 13, 2010

OK, last move ever, I hope. Please update your bookmarks and RSS feeders and whatnots: This entire show has moved to just plain old Kepkanation.com. Same WordPress taste, fewer WordPress restrictions. Not that I really found WordPress that restrictive, but … Continue reading →

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The newest entry in the eBook Martket: Kobo, from Borders

Posted on May 7, 2010

Borders is now taking pre-orders for the Kobo e-Reader, the newest entry into the eReader market. It’s just like every eReader you’ve admired so far — except this one costs only $149. To reach that point, Kobo has cut (or … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Night Food: Tuna Pasta for A Vegetarian

Posted on May 5, 2010

I’m a vegetarian. I’ve been a vegetarian for something like 6 years now. Every once-in-a-while, though, I fall off the vegetarian wagon and onto a fish sandwich. It turns out, fried halibut isn’t such a bad place to land. Sure, … Continue reading →

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Weird fact of the day: Ferret Legging

Posted on May 4, 2010

I had no idea: An ancient English “sport” called “ferret legging” has contributed to the myths about ferret behaviour. The contestant had to tie his trouser legs around the ankles, then place two ferrets down his trousers before tying the … Continue reading →

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As The World Turns Star Dies at 91

Posted on May 2, 2010

Aw, the woman who’s played Nancy Huges on the soap opera “As the World Turns” forever has died: Actress Helen Wagner, who played mild-mannered Nancy Hughes on the CBS soap opera ”As the World Turns” for more than a half-century … Continue reading →

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Library victory: Four new mysteries, one low price

Posted on May 2, 2010

I have been reading my way, out of order, through Henning Mankell’s Wallander series, as I’ve noted elsewhere. The mysteries are a striking combination of the usual detective tome — crimes are committed and investigated — and social commentary literature, … Continue reading →

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Seeing is Believing: Ginormous Pancake Saturday

Posted on May 1, 2010

Today we went for breakfast at a diner we’d never tried before. The review for said diner promised “manhole cover-sized pancakes.” The group’s consensus (OK, mostly between R and I) was that this could not possibly be true, but that … Continue reading →

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Charlie Crist Should Run as a Democrat

Posted on April 29, 2010

Alert Alaska: Charlie Crist is goin’ rogue! The Florida governor is set to announce tomorrow at 5 p.m. that he’ll continue running for the U.S. Senate, but as a non-affiliated candidate, not a member of the Republican party (hat-tip: Kathy … Continue reading →

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This Week in Cooking: My Silver Spoon Crush

Posted on April 28, 2010

I have a total cookbook crush on The Silver Spoon: Pasta. It’s a $40 cookbook, translated from the original Italian, in which every recipe involves pasta. Because it is $40, I love it from afar, often stopping to pet it … Continue reading →

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