Two Chocolate Cakes: Recent Episodes
Jen Coleslaw
Two Chocolate Cakes, A Culinary Memoir follows the writer from one of her earliest family memories—making a scratch chocolate cake with a purloined recipe for her father’s birthday, a cake he would never eat on his birthday because he would be passed out drunk before the sun would set, to another chocolate cake, made by strangers but sent by friends, some 40 years later, and all the culinary and emotional layers in between those moments.
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Welcome back! Here's a little teaser to let you know we're back.
Also I think I don't love the intro music so I might change it up.
And if you're looking for SideCar Podcast with Jen Coleslaw you need to find that on its own feed now! It won't be here anymore!
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Oh hey are you still listening to SideCar over here? You really really need to listen to it at SideCar Podcast with Jen Coleslaw. You're keeping me from uploading Two Chocolate Cakes Episodes!
Let me know if it is not on your podcast player--btw, Stitcher is no longer carrying any podcasts so I can't help you there.
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If you're listening to this on this feed, this is your last warning that SideCar will only be on the SideCar Podcast with Jen Coleslaw feed going forward. Please find it there. That's where I put all the show notes!
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A thoughtful (as in full of thought) episode about how, in the words of the Rolling Stones, with respect to Parents (ie., fathers) you can't always get what you want, but you can get what you need--by going outside the family unit and finding positive role models for either your kids or even yourself. If your spouse or the father (or mother!) of your kids isn't making it happen because they're ill or they're flawed or broken, find other people to fill the gaps.
Also: What's at the farmers market, how Rufus Poofus All Around Doofus is doing, what's growing in and eating up my garden.
Plus the food holidays.
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The bad air last week and the unfortunate plan to clean up the living room of all the cat hair and dust really did me and my poor schnoop in this week so this episode is mostly a bit of complaining, two coughs that I didn't edit out (sorry) and food holidays. Hopefully I'll get back on track this weekend.
I'm still hoping for THREE more Patreons so I can get that super awesome handmixer. You can support this (and SideCar) Podcast by joining the patreon at patreon.com/twochocolatecakes or if you're a Spotify user, supporting the podcast here for 4.99! (but if you join Patreon you get perks!)
A reminder that if you're listening to SideCar on this feed--You'll want to find the SideCar Podcast with Jen Coleslaw feed after the end of June because I won't be pushing the SideCar pods out on this feed--this will be only for Two Chocolate Cakes episodes! This feed will become Two Chocolate Cakes only--and those episodes will drop monthly because they are a lot harder to write and record.
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Donut Discussion
What's going on at the farmers markets where you are?
Peach Problems in Georgia
Food and Otherwise Holidays
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So I'm still healing from surgery so my voice is pretty goofy sounding and I am sorry for the occasional cough.
But we get caught up on Farmers Markets, What's going on the Garden, Dog News, and of course the end of May and beginning of June Food Holidays.
Also, RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT on Wednesday overnight. DO IT. I don't want to hear how you didn't do it.
REMEMBER that I am moving the SIDECAR episodes to their own feed. Make sure you follow SideCar Podcast with Jen Coleslaw!
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Also: Dog update, what's at the farmers market, the importance of partially ripe strawberries, and the demise of my beloved swimming pool.
Also, Humminbird Cake has PINEAPPLE in it
ALSO: I have closed down my redbubble store because they're awful and I now have a shop at Threadless. I am still adding things to it.
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Also: Home is where the heart is; house is where the stuff is.
Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit (MAY 1)
Freeze dried candy
May Food Holidays!
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*spoiler: He does not retrieve.
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Farmers Market
The State of the Garden
The New Fridge
Climate Change is Real
New Dog!
Earth Day
Food Hols!
If you're local to me and come see me on Sunday the 16th at Aslin Brewing in Herndon. 11-4 pm
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The episode where I complain some more about my mother. Don't forget that Saturday is April 1 and NO JOKE: RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT.You can support the podcast and encourage me to finish writing Season 2 of Two Chocolate Cakes (patreons get early looks/listens, occasional mail drops depending on the level, poetry readings, and pictures of things that are important to me--I will also answer all your email and give you encouragement and advice as needed) by joining the patreon at patreon.com/twochocolatecakes--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/twochocolatecakes/support
A Few Things To Know:
Zeppoles for Saturday! This is far more important than whatever happens on Friday
The Bakery I talk about is The Red Truck Bakery in Warrenton (you can google and find all the stories)
If you are local-ish and want to help build a very small pollinator habitat in the middle of a kind of crappy historic parking lot at a brewery on Sunday, come on by Aslin Beer 9:30 am -11:30 am March 19.
We'll be doing another event there on April 16--Earth Daze which is all day (11-5) and much bigger and a good time and you should come if you want. Both events are free and pretty low stakes.
Anchor just became Spotify for Podcasters so hopefully that won't slow down my ability to move the SideCar pods over to their own feed.
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Good News: spring is seriously here because of some news out of the Farmers Markets!
New Feature: Food News! Tag me in any interesting food news stories!
The usual food holidays and a reminder to get yourself some Sugar Snap Pea seeds for Pea Planting Day!
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- It finally snowed here
- A little bit about my workwork
- RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT
- I have a new computer and none of my settings are the same so I keep having to switch back to the old computer that is overheating and has a bad keyboard to record and upload the podcast
- Now that I've been doing this a year and over 50 episodes, we're calling it: SideCar is now in its SECOND SEASON and I'd like to move the SideCar Podcast to its own feed if anyone knows how to do that... 😬 That way when Two Chocolate Cakes drops, it will be its own feed as well.
- there are a lot of weird smacks, pops, and clicks in this because of the settings so I apologize for those extra annoying sounds. In my defense, my nose is half broke, it appears so my breathing is all weird.
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Did you know that I've been doing this podcast for a year? Well, the combined Two Chocolate Cakes and the SideCar podcast.
In this episode: What's going on with the weather and my garden; the perils of a part time legislature; wondering about sweet potatoes (did you have them growing up if you grew up north of the Mason Dixon line?) and more.
Also, my owls are back!
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Alert! 🚨 ‼️ 🔔 Do Not Forget!
Wednesday Morning: Rabbit 🐇 🐰
And if you forget--don't tell me about it. I do not want to know.
Wrap up of Food Holidays for All of February and there are some goodies!
Two really good meals I had this week and I tell you all about them.
Also it is Blood Orange Season so it is time to make Blood Orange Marmalade.
Ok so here are (some of) the lyrics to Mr Tambourine Man by Bob Dylan--made famous by the Byrds and I was thinking about it a lot this week because of the passing of David Crosby
Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip
My toes too numb to step
Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin'
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade
Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it
PS it is possible I we're at the 1 year anniversary of the podcast? How should we celebrate?
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Sorry I missed last week, but to make up for it, this podcast is almost A HALF HOUR LONG!
note that I didn't say it was a REALLY GOOD PODCAST, just that it has more minutes.
I'd love it if you shared some of your air fryer recipes with me. Otherwise we are just going to be eating chicken nuggets til the end of time.
Here are the seed catalogs that I talked about in the pod, plus the handle of the person on TikTok who blew my mind yesterday
Pinetree garden seeds
https://www.superseeds.com/
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
https://www.southernexposure.com/
Johnny’s Selected Seeds
https://www.johnnyseeds.com/
Kitchen Garden Seeds
https://www.kitchengardenseeds.com/
Hudson Valley Seed
https://hudsonvalleyseed.com/
TikTok person with wisdom about parents: @madicalized
If you would like to get some swag with any of the New Years Resolutions on them,
you can find all that stuff at the Bonfire Shop, or at the Redbubble Shop
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A reminder about the futility of resolutions--they should serve you, not you serve them.
Plus, a little list of some great animals I met this week!
PLEASE NOTE: This week is PIZZA WEEK. Plan accordingly.
We are also fully into SUMO CITRUS SEASON. Go get you some.
I made a bunch of sticker designs that can also go on t shirts and hoodies and totes and you can find them starting Monday December 9 at the Redbubble Store
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A very quick set of important messages for you--
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Resolutions and all that nonsense
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Choosing Joy--who is with me?
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Food Holidays
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An assignment: please listen to the December 2019 episode (Auld Lang Syne) of The Anthropocene Reviewed (on all the podcast platforms) or if you are an audible.com member, use a credit to buy the Anthropocene Reviewed (John Green) book and listen to that chapter. You won't be sorry. It is required reading
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Just hear those sleigh bells jingling, ring ting tingling too.... you know it's lovely weather to just stay home.
Here's hoping that whatever your holiday wishes are--whether they are to be with friends and family, or to be alone to celebrate solstice, to be on a warm beach or watching "snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead" (James Joyce) that you're having the holiday you want.
In this episode we go over belonging and holiday rituals and some holiday history, and of course the food holidays as well as a good clapback for you to use on anyone in your family who dares to define "woke" as a bad thing. Reminder: If it is not Good News to the Poor--it is not Good News.
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How is it on the shortest day we have the longest episode? Well, I'll take it!
In which I present to you a short gift guide and of course, the food holidays for this week, and I only complain a tiny bit.
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I have a scratchy voice, sorry about that.
In this episode we talk about holiday expectations of yourself and others, setting boundaries, advent calendars, my favorite bartenders, and update to our plumbing issue, and who is profiting off of human suffering?
UPDATE: I misspoke: 13th Doctor! What was I thinking! IYKYK.
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At some point Twitter will be done and Patreon is where all my good between podcast stuff will probably end up.
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Just a quickie to get you ready for Thanksgiving, for better or worse! and finish out the month of food holidays. I'm considering entering a holiday cookie contest and need to decide which recipe.
We got a $9000 plumbing bill to pay next week so if you're on the fence about the Patreon, this would be a good month to join. :-) You can check it out at patreon.com/twochocolatecakes
Not sure what is going to happen with Twitter but you can always find me at instagram and tiktok @jencoleslaw although I don't post a ton there, also @twochocolatecakes where I post even more infrequently. I'm sure if/when Twitter self-immolates I will pick up the slack on the other platforms.
Hope everyone has the Thanksgiving they want and they enjoy, however that manifests. xoxo
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*Thanks to the listeners who alerted me that I uploaded LAST WEEK's Episode-sorry about that! Still got a little jetlag I think. xoxo
A HODGE-PODGECAST! Yes I said it. Back from the trip, falling through the doorway at the UPS store so now I got a swollen knee AND my achilles tendon is about to rupture, unpacking, thinking about the holidays, getting ready to bring a carload full of toys to our Hot Dog guy (Dave's Dogs) who runs a Toys for Tots drop off. If you would like to throw a few bucks into the pot to increase our toy haul, you can venmo or paypal me @ jencoleslaw
Do you have a good Thanksgiving Recipe to share? send it to me! Especially if it is a side dish or dessert.
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Remote broadcast today complete with weird echo, and other noises I had no control over. Let's call them "ambiance." You never realize how loud your hotel room is until you have to try to record something in it. Also, the slowest upload speeds ever.
Here's the link to the Anthropocene Reviewed episode I mentioned--definitely give it a listen and if you haven't heard the entire run of 37 episodes, I highly recommend. You can also hear most of the episodes as an audiobook but the podcast is free and actually has more essays than the book.
I'll put some pics up of this past few days for the Patreons; please consider joining at even the lowest level which gets you digital content like extra posts and poetry corner, and even the occasional postcard from exotic places.
Don't forget: Tuesday FIRST THING: RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT. Do not let me down what with Mid-term elections and all.
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Last weekend I went to CT to visit my mother and sister. It was a whole thing. And it wasn't all good things and so the pod kind of reflects that.
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Some of you know about my emotional support hippo, Fatniss, but not everyone knows the whole story so today on this special anniversary weekend, I'm sharing the Fatniss Friendship story with you.
The Batter Top Cobbler is behind a paywall at America's Test Kitchen but if you have any of those cookbooks (baking) it might be in there.
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In this episode I show my middle class ass by complaining about how hard it was to keep my pool clean this summer. 🙄😬
Also, I revisit something I talked about earlier in the year and that is about who curates our digital lives and taking advantage of opportunities to hear and save family oral history and why it is important to me to do that.
And while I do not mention it in the podcast because I will probably do an emergency reminder podcast on Wednesday--Friday is October 1 which means what, people? RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT!
Join the patreon now (before the end of September) so that you can reap the spoils of my working vacation to the south pacific.
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In this episode, I talk about who we would line up 10 miles and 30+ hours to spend 10 seconds saying goodbye to, the way folks in the UK are with the Queen. There's also a little musing about how the media would cover big historical events like the JFK or MLK assassinations or other important news stories.
I got my booster shot this week and I felt kind of unwell today but I had to put some time in at the animal hospital, helping out and I was exhausted so I apologize in advance for how bad the editing is on the pod this week. I've been overloaded the last few weeks but hopefully, things will settle down soon.
OMGOSH I totally forgot to tell you about how the SHEEPOVER (well technically they did not stay the night but I just love saying that) went.
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This is a short midweek episode with some thoughts about collective mourning, funerals and lack of due to the pandemic and how we might take advantage of this gigantic worldwide event to process our own losses. I'll be back this weekend w/ food holidays and an update on how the Lamb Mowing event went (tomorrow!)
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You can absolutely tell that I am tired today so sorry for all the little mistakes and noises that I didn't have to energy to edit out! Gift with purchase!
And I realized after I record that Stand Up to Cancer day is a UK based fundraiser (I think?) where comedians raise money for cancer research so my rant is a little off but the point still remains. There are a lot of those kinds of Gutsy People Fighting Terrible Disease Holidays that I can frankly do without.
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Gracious, I had a lot to tell you this week. I have a new sign on, and a new sign off! I hope you like it.
Don't forget: RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT on Thursday Morning FIRST THING.
September is a treasure trove of excellent food holidays. I mean, it is POTATO MONTH, people!
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It is a short one this week, and it is boring.
A few highlights: Waffle Day! Bat Night! Dog Day! Over 10,000 downloads!
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Also,
ALERT🚨
Alert! 🚨
August 19 is POTATO DAY! PLAN AHEAD.
Plus: Three Good Things, and How to Process Peaches to Deal With Them Later
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3 things that were good this week plus a bonus crossover event 4th thing
Some chatter about Tiktok
A little light scolding about the news
What's going on in the garden!
Three books I love!
Food Holidays!
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I'm going to work harder at finding things to feel good about and this week, I present to you three joys plus a memory!
A reminder that recipes and show notes (if there are any) can be found at twochocolatecakes.com and you can support this podcast here via Spotify and Anchor, or Patreon, or even Ko-Fi (link on twitter profile @twochoccakes and @jencoleslaw)
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It's a MINI SIDECAR Chaser! The August Food Holidays for the month plus some that I made up and honestly I did such a nice job I think I should make them up every month--what do you think? plus Cookie Report! Also a teaser on the DAY holidays, and I veer into the unknown by talking about the Multiverse.
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It is hot out, everything is overgrown, and I am longing for the beforetimes. Even for in person work meetings around a big table and a box of Dunkin' Munchkins. Do they even make those anymore?
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Where's your happy place? Or at least a place where you are LEAST unhappy? For me, that's the beach.
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This is not the usual content because so I had to get some stuff out of my system. Here's the link I was telling you about where you can see all the companies that went back on their word to NOT fund insurrectionists or insurrection adjacent candidates.
https://popular.info/p/the-january-6-corporate-accountability
A few other things: my voice sounds so weird! What is up with that? I listened to podcasts from a few month ago and I sound much different. Maybe I should get my thyroid checked.
I am serious about sending you produce bags. just send me an email at twochocolatecakes@gmail.com with a mailing address and I'll pop one or two in the mail (US /Canada addresses only for now please!)
The weather was terrible this morning and I have not been sleeping well so we skipped the Saturday farmers Market and will go tomorrow (sunday) and I think I will start doing a Mini Pod (a TableSpoon? A Shot? I'll think of a good name) on Wednesdays with Amy's Cookie Correspondence, maybe Recipe of the Week? and any other interesting food thing I may have seen between Saturday and Tues/Wed. How does that sound?
Reminder that there's a good pecan pie recipe and a good blueberry cake recipe in the recipe listings at twochocolatecakes.com blog
Finally if you have any questions about #PlasticFreeJuly and want some more info about that, send me a message via any of the ways you message me @twochoccakes or @jencoleslaw on twitter, or via email twochocolatecakes@gmail.com
If you want to support the podcast you can do it via ko-fi or Patreon or through Spotify! Anchor isn't paying for ads anymore so your support helps!
xoxojen
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Is there something in your life that haunts/taunts you? I have a carrot cake, but I might be ready to release my obsession.
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There are so many good Food Holidays in July that I wanted to make sure you were prepared.
Also a reminder about RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT.
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The Storm Episode reads better than "Yet Another Episode About Dead Fathers."
Update from the Farmers Market and the Garden--BLACK RASPBERRIES!
AND:
The good news is that Anchor no longer sponsors my podcast so there are no ads!
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This week's prompt of Summer Foods send me back to the Two Chocolate Cakes Origin Story. Tiny trigger warning that I do talk a little about past disordered eating (mine) so forewarned!
Also next Saturday is Anthony Bourdain Day. Should we do a fundraiser or something? Maybe bring a bag of non perishables to your food bank in his honor. I'd really love that. ❤️🍓🌻
I also went to the farmers market today with only ONE SMALL BAG so I could only get tomatoes because I refuse to use plastic bags. I'm absolutely gonna send the Patreon folks reusable produce bags but if you send some food to your local food bank for Anthony Bourdain Day, I'll totally send you a few, because if there is ever a place where plastic bags have no business, it is at a Farmers Market.
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I hope you like jammin' too.
What to do when jam doesn't set up? No, really. There's no deeper meaning here. No metaphor. My jam is saucy not firm. I used up almost $40 worth of strawberries and 3+ hours of time and my jam didn't set.
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Do you remember what you had for food at your wedding because I don't. I even went through and looked at pictures. I remember the cake though! I'll throw some pics up on the twochocolatecakes.com site so you can see it. It was spectacular.
Anyway, in this episode I talk about how invasive weeds in my neglected garden are a heavy-handed metaphor that I didn't even realize until I was more than halfway through writing this. Funny how that works out.
Also: new segment alert: Cookie Correspondent!
No farmers market this morning though--going tomorrow. Will update the Twitter if there's anything interesting but I suspect strawberries are over (I probably have 8 lbs in my freezer) but blueberries and raspberries should be coming in! Maybe even some early tomatoes and definitely cukes.
Reminder that there's no Two Chocolate Cakes episodes for the next month and a half or so while I write the next season, but we'll still do SideCars on the weekend, plus every other week drops of The AJENDA Podcast with Jen Golbeck/GR MOM from Golden Ratio.
If you'd like to support the pod you can do so here via spotify but if you join via Patreon you get PRIZES. The first batch of rewards has already gone out to the folks who joined up in May!
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And so we come to the end of Season 1 of Two Chocolate Cakes, and it is with one of the most bland meals out of the entire series, but still a meal I love more than anything--it is a comfort meal that I eat even now, many years later. It is also one of the only kinds of meat I can manage to cook myself! Well, besides hotdogs.
I hope you have enjoyed this first season of Two Chocolate Cakes and I am excited to bring you Season Two before the end of the summer!
The SideCar podcast will continue weekly on the weekends and if you want to stay up to date, get behind the scenes special downloads and recipes, swag and more, you'll want to join the Patreon--there are 4 levels of support, from $3/month to $25/month with varying levels of goodies.
You can also support me periodically if you like by buying me a ko-fi, or by sending me a supportive message via twitter at @twochoccakes or @jencoleslaw
Recipes and pictures from this season can be found at Two Chocolate Cakes website--www.TwoChocolateCakes.com
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So 10 years ago today my father parted this mortal coil and it is a much bigger story than what you get today but I like to mark the day, and today, I marked it with you and as such, you're getting it a day early. I'll put a few pics up on the twochocolatecakes.com site about that 10 year journey to get here.
Recording notes: I am recording this on the actual anniversary, from Ben's parents, and there are little noises because I don't have a lot of control over sound here so, sorry about that if you hear stuff. There's also a perfectly time Waffles sigh in there.
No Farmers Market news today although maybe we'll go out tomorrow and see if there's a local market somewhere. xoxo
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a brief history of some of my favorite cats, and their favorite drug of choice.
Spoiler alert: like many of the stories in this series, it is sad.
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So, once upon a time, before the great sickness, I loved to travel...
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After my parents' divorce, Kay took over hosting Christmas. She made it special after Mom swore never to celebrate holidays again, even putting a tiny 2 food christmas tree in the room I stayed in.
A reminder that you can support the podcast by joining the Patreon at one of the 4 levels.
and that the recipes for this and the other episodes can be found at Two Chocolate Cakes website.
Finally, there are just a few more episodes (2!) in this season. Then we'll just have SideCar episodes while I put together Season 2 of Two Chocolate Cakes. I think you'll be pleased with the stories and the recipes.
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This was definitely not on the list of things to talk about. And it's a long one!
Also, finally got some good strawberries at the Falls Church Farmers Market.
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There was something about Portland that gave me courage. I don't know if it was the weather, or the fact that I had a job where I was respected, or if it was all that incredible beer (and let me tell you, the beer was OUTSTANDING) or if it was the rain, but it was something. I only wish that I had banked some of that courage for the future.
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Where I talk about the saga of losing my health insurance, looking for strawberries and the women in my life who were not my mother who have been so influential in my development as a decent human.
AND
I managed to get through the whole thing without coughing! (don't worry, I'm not sick, I just have seasonal asthma--but you know what helps? Nutty Fudge!)
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How to meet new neighbors in a new city!
Step one: Move across the country where you know one person
Step two: have an accident
Step three: figure out who in the building full of strangers can help (spoiler alert--it is the person dancing to Phantom of the Opera)
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So the ants are back and I couldn't find strawberries at the Farmers Market on Saturday. You'll be hearing more about my arch nemesis THE ANTS this summer.
If you are at all curious about the Farmers Markets--On Saturdays we go to the one in Warrenton VA (the most info for all these entities is on Facebook and while I have to use FB so you can just search for them) as well as the one in City of Manassas. But because they are in different counties we can usually only go to one or the other. On Sundays we go to The Dale City Farmers Markets. On Tuesdays the Farmers Market is at Tacketts Mill, Wednesday Wakefield Park in Fairfax County, and Thursdays is City of Manassas in the morning, and Pfitzner Stadium Complex (Government Center for Prince William County) in the afternoon (this is a new one--but a lot of the same vendors we know from Sundays are there.) There are lots more markets but these are the ones we usually go to. If you check out the vendor list and want me to try something specific, let me know via twitter. You can find me at @twochoccakes and you can also message me via the website twochocolatecakes.com or at twochocolatecakes@gmail.com
Here are some links to things I talked about in the pod today:
The Two Chocolate Cakes / SideCar Patreon
Mr Mixer's Go Fund Me
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What is it that Taylor says? "Sometimes you just don't know the answer til someone's on their knees and asks you?"
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OMG what a week. AND IT ISN'T EVEN OVER YET. but the good news is that strawberries are right around the corner, like NEXT WEEK corner.
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Also known as The Tale of Two Patricks. 😉
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It's the most wonderful (ly busy and stressful) time of the year! I decree it Brach's Jelly Bean Day going forward and we talk about community. Also, Cheeseballs.
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What does goes into the lunchbox when you're working as a landscaper with your father?
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Spring Farmers Markets have reopened, jelly bean discussion, and why is Easter an ok holiday but Thanksgiving gives me anxiety?
What's growing in the greenhouse so far.
Also, here's the address if you want to send a recipe along or something for me to eat and review:
**Jen Coleslaw/Two Chocolate Cakes
8665 Sudley Road #150
Manassas, VA 20110
USA**
twochocolatecakes@gmail.com
I will try almost anything (no fish/seafood tho) and talk about it on the SideCar podcasts which drop on Saturday/Sunday. Please make sure you let me know who you are so I can thank you.
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What was the first thing you learned to make when you left home? Do you remember? Did you have some kind of crazy college dorm room food hack? I did and IT WAS DELICIOUS!
PS. You can actually hear Peat yowling on this one. I just did not have it in me to re-record. So you get two sad cat meows as a gift with purchase.
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What are the best gifts you've given or gotten? For me, it is always gifts that say "I was thinking of you" or "I know you so well that you didn't have to even mention this and I knew you'd love it" This week we talk about a gift Ben gave me for Valentines Day--a subscription to a Cookie of the Month Club (and this is not an ad--I just love the company for reasons that will become evident!) called Doughp--check them out.
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In that weird in-between time of high school and college summer jobs, in the days before internships and real jobs, I worked at the most magical summer resort. If you remember the movie Dirty Dancing--you know this resort.
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Now that our lives are all digital, what happens to them when we depart this mortal coil? Who goes through out gigabytes of photographs--if anyone? How do we leave our favorite recipes if they are all online? Also, Tell me that you have been eating Sumo Oranges!!!
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My father's signature meal. After he got sober and changed jobs, my mother started working two nights a week at a halfway house. Dad and I took turns making dinner but neither of us were particularly skilled in the kitchen, but we liked what we ate.
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In this episode, I pronounce zeppole at least three different ways, and crepes two different ways. I added a new calendar to the mix and really now I cannot be stopped. And I will apologize in advance for the squeaking noises--I talk with my hands even when I am recording and it makes things move imperceptibly in my recording studio (ie., on top of a laptop box, in the bedroom) and the microphone picks it up!
I realize after I recorded that this episode was very Christian centric (despite me being an agnostic) and I'd like to learn more about foods from other holidays and other religions so feel free to share with me, either via twitter, or messaging at TwoChocolateCakes.com your stories, or if you'd like to come on the pod and talk about YOUR faith tradition foods! I bet you have some stories!
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The Bullocks were one of many families that became my family, but the first family where I was well and truly wanted.
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Welcome to SideCar, the Two Chocolate Cakes side hustle podcast that I promise is more cheerful than the memoir. If you like my Twitter feed about #FoodHolidays and pets and what I am growing in the garden, then you'll want to listen to the episodes that will be clearly marked SideCar--If they are popular enough I'll put them in their own feed. SideCar has its own music, I record it all in one take, and is more a conversation. SideCar episodes will drop on Saturdays or Sundays, with the original Two Chocolate Cake episodes on Wednesdays or Thursdays. I hope that if you want to talk about YOUR food holidays, and rituals around food, what you're growing in your garden, and really whatever you're eating these days, you'll hit me up on Twitter and we can record an episode together! This is a work in progress so let me know what you think.
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When your childhood friends go on without you.
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Sometimes, it isn't the holiday, but all the rituals AROUND the holiday that is the special part. Oh, and the leftovers.
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The first of many stories about what I did on my summer vacations. 😬
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What is that one thing you cooked for all your old lovers? The thing that you were sure made you irresistible?
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Sometimes you cannot get that smell out of your nose. Or the things you see out of your head.
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There's something about other people's kitchens that I will always love--probably because they have always been safe harbor for me (for the most part) and the very first (and for the next several decades) "family" kitchen for me was the Roch's kitchen where I learned how to make Macaroni and Cheese.
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This is the First Chocolate Cake.
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Let's set the table, shall we?
This whole series started out as a literal recipe box that I still have, more than 25? maybe more? years later. I was looking at it as a creative writing prompt.
Even though I keep a lot of my recipes in an online recipe keeper now because I am afraid of losing them, I still have my little recipe box, and all the cards. And every single one of them, even the ones not represented in this series, tell a story.
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Welcome to the Limited Series, Two Chocolate Cakes!
For more information about the Author, recipes, photos and more, please visit Two Chocolate Cakes
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