Baker on the Run

Escapades in Bread Baking, Part III: Deciding to Play

By Cate on May 10, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Many times in my life, I’ve been in friends’ kitchens, baking something together, and I’ll see them nonchalantly use the same measuring cup to add both the flour and the water to a batter… and a little voice inside me starts shouting, “No!!! You’re doing it wrong! How could you possibly use a dry ingredient cup to add a wet ingredient?! That’s wroooooooong!” And a part of me clenches up, feels a tiny bit of pain, and generally manages to keep my mouth shut. Because: It. Doesn’t. Matter. Continue reading “Escapades in Bread Baking, Part III: Deciding to Play”

Escapades in Bread Baking, Part II: Perseverance

By Cate on May 5, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

In somewhat typical pigheaded fashion, I have continued to push forward in my bread-baking endeavors… without doing much of anything different. And somehow succeeded in not screwing it up completely the second time around! Continue reading “Escapades in Bread Baking, Part II: Perseverance”

Mississippi Blues Half Marathon: Race Review

By Cate on April 23, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

My friends and I picked the Mississippi Blues Half Marathon as our Mississippi race in part because I was super excited about the fact that the race was on Leap Day! Actually… that may have been like 80% of the reason I wanted to run it. February 29th, y’all! How cool is that?! Continue reading “Mississippi Blues Half Marathon: Race Review”

Easy Dulce de Leche Cream Pie

By Cate on April 22, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

I love cream pies. And I love dulce de leche. So, obviously, combining those two things seemed like a pretty stellar match up. I’ve actually made this pie a few times now, and the good news is that the recipe is fairly forgiving and really adaptable. Continue reading “Easy Dulce de Leche Cream Pie”

Escapades in Bread Baking, Part 1: Abject Failure

By Cate on April 21, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

I can admit that as a person I’m often prone to biting off more than I can chew. Learning to run? I’ll run a marathon someday! Like going to college? Lemme go get a PhD! On a smaller scale, though, this manifests in things like what happened last week: want to learn to bake bread? Start with sourdough!

Continue reading “Escapades in Bread Baking, Part 1: Abject Failure”

Mapping My Adventures

By Cate on October 30, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

So, I was laid up with a cold for five days last week, which meant I got through a lot of knitting, three seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and a whole bunch of tinkering around on my laptop. The results: a series of maps and rough mileage estimate for my cross-country digital nomading over the past year. Y’all. I clocked a lot of miles. Continue reading “Mapping My Adventures”

Easy Gluten-free Breakfast Muffins in the tin

Easy Power-packed Breakfast Muffins (that happen to be gluten-free)

By Cate on October 20, 2019 • ( 2 Comments )

These awesome, power-packed breakfast muffins are made with almond flour/meal, oats, carrots, and zucchini — which means they’re gluten-free and healthy-ish without tasting like it. I’ve been making them for years, and instead of sharing the recipe piecemeal, it’s high time I posted it here. (I’ve put it off in part because, well, they’re a little homely). Continue reading “Easy Power-packed Breakfast Muffins (that happen to be gluten-free)”

Digital Nomad Series: Home is Where Your Stuff Is… Unpacked

By Cate on October 18, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

I’ve been itinerant (i.e. a digital nomad) for eleven and a half months now, or 348 days, to be precise (but who’s counting?). And, honestly, I’m kind of over it. I was kind of over it at the seven month mark, which is one of the various reasons I haven’t written much the past few months… tired and grumpy posting just didn’t seem terribly appealing to anyone. Not that it’s all been tired and grumpy! It’s also been awesome and super busy. Continue reading “Digital Nomad Series: Home is Where Your Stuff Is… Unpacked”

The Best Dark Chocolate Cream Pie

By Cate on October 17, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

I don’t usually throw around superlatives, but this is hands down the best chocolate cream pie I’ve ever made, and almost the best I’ve ever had (that honor goes to a lovely little bakery in Pittsburgh). But, this is by far the best homemade chocolate cream pie ever. All the people I’ve fed it to agree. Continue reading “The Best Dark Chocolate Cream Pie”

Sioux Falls Skedaddle Medal - Half Marathon 2019

Sioux Falls Skedaddle Half Marathon: Race Review

By Cate on October 16, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Y’all, with a name like Skedaddle, I obviously had to run this race. Continue reading “Sioux Falls Skedaddle Half Marathon: Race Review”

Baker on the Run

Baking to deal with all the things, running to compensate.

Escapades in Bread Baking, Part III: Deciding to Play

Escapades in Bread Baking, Part II: Perseverance

Mississippi Blues Half Marathon: Race Review

Easy Dulce de Leche Cream Pie

Escapades in Bread Baking, Part 1: Abject Failure

Mapping My Adventures

Easy Power-packed Breakfast Muffins (that happen to be gluten-free)

Digital Nomad Series: Home is Where Your Stuff Is… Unpacked

The Best Dark Chocolate Cream Pie

Sioux Falls Skedaddle Half Marathon: Race Review

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Mapping My Adventures

Digital Nomad Series: Home is Where Your Stuff Is… Unpacked

Digital Nomad Series: The Jungle Is (Mostly) Designed to Kill You

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Mississippi Blues Half Marathon: Race Review

Sioux Falls Skedaddle Half Marathon: Race Review

Flying Pirate Half Marathon (Kitty Hawk, NC): Race Review

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