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Healthy Three-Ingredient Banana Ice Cream

Julie Ruble — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 03:58:37 +0000

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Healthy Three-Ingredient Banana Ice Cream

August is going to be a little stressful, so if you're available to come sedate me for roughly a month or like throw me into the ocean or something, I'm down for that! Good news, though: it's stressful for GREAT reasons, because there are big changes coming up that I'm excited about!
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Birthday Cake Pudding Mix Cookies

Julie Ruble — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 05:48:21 +0000

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HELP ME WITH MY LAZINESS. I don't mean help me NOT to be lazy. I mean help me TO be lazy. Facilitate my lazing.

Listen, I know how to paint a piece of furniture. You wash it, sand it, clean it off, prime it, sometimes resand, paint it, add a coat, sometimes add some kind of finishing... something or other. BUT NOBODY WANTS TO DO ALL THAT.

But I have this piece of furniture and I need you to tell me how to paint it without doing any of that. SEND ME YOUR HACKS, send me your tricks, send me your teenager eager to earn money by painting my turtle cabinet. Help me out.

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Cheesecake Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

Julie Ruble — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 21:42:20 +0000

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Cheesecake Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

Since I was diagnosed with ADHD a few years ago, I've struggled to manage it. Turns out it's kind of hard to make regular appointments, pick up regular prescriptions, and monitor healthcare when you have a condition that makes it a struggle to manage time and logistics. WHAT A SURPRISE.

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Creamsicle Sheet Cake (and thoughts for Rachel Held Evans)

Julie Ruble — Mon, 06 May 2019 04:01:18 +0000

Creamsicle Sheet Cake

Rachel Held Evans was a progressive Christian writer who embodied vulnerability by dismantling her toxic evangelical ideas and then reassembling her faith in front of all of us. She listened to Jesus. She let herself be moved.

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My Favorite Lemon Cake Recipes for Easter Sunday!

Julie Ruble — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 05:57:11 +0000

My Favorite Lemon Cake Recipes for Easter Sunday!

As we've discussed, lemon cake recipes are perfect for a holiday table, especially the Easter holiday. I don't know why. They JUST ARE.

Here are my VERY FAVORITE LEMON CAKE RECIPES that I think should be on your Easter table this Sunday! As a bonus, I've also included a few other lemon dessert recipes that I love and that would be perfect for a special occasion.

Don't worry: these recipes are pretty, but they're also easy, quick, and absolutely delicious. Lemon lovers in your life are gonna love you!

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Streusel Lemon Cake

Julie Ruble — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 04:20:36 +0000

EASTER IS THE OFFICIAL LEMON CAKE HOLIDAY, I DON'T MAKE THE RULES.

Okay, I made that rule. But it's TRUE, don't you think? Don't you want a giant, buttery, streusely, moist lemon cake for Easter? One that takes 30 minutes to make but looks kinda fancy?

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Lemon Cake with Whipped Icing

Julie Ruble — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 22:24:15 +0000

Lemon Cake with Whipped Icing

Sometimes as a teacher you have these moments where your students transcend. They go up the stairs you've built but they don't just reach the top: they're suddenly flying, they've made their own wings, they're higher than you knew they could go.

They're higher than they even knew they could go.

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Cookies and Cream Pudding Mix Cookies

Julie Ruble — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 05:47:15 +0000

Cookies and Cream Pudding Mix Cookies

OKAY THIS IS OFFICIALLY THE BUSIEST WEEK OF MY LIFE BUT I'M STILL DROPPING IN TO THROW SOME COOKIES AND CREAM PUDDING MIX COOKIES AT YOU BECAUSE THAT'S JUST THE KIND OF BENEVOLENT PERSON I AM. Seriously I can barely breathe right now but HERE ARE SOME COOKIES YOU'RE WELCOME.

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Snack Wedding Cake Recipe

Julie Ruble — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 06:20:53 +0000

Snack Wedding Cake Recipe

Okay soooo how can we get a WEDDING CAKE up in here without having to go to a wedding? NO OFFENSE, I'M SURE YOUR WEDDING WAS FUN, it was probably one of those with a cupcake buffet or a donut wall or a photo booth with good props or a dog as the flower girl. I'M SURE IT WAS GREAT.

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Hot Butterscotch Pudding Poke Cake

Julie Ruble — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 04:00:50 +0000

Hot Butterscotch Pudding Poke Cake

Here we go again. A few folks on Twitter this week decided to gain some retweet capital by trotting out the familiar, "These food bloggers and the interminable STORIES before the RECIPE, am I right?! Just gimme the ingredients already" snark.

There are a lot of reasons this attitude is problematic: we spend countless hours creating recipes and can offer them to you for free precisely because our posts are long enough to include ads that pay our rent. These people are basically saying scrolling is too much payment in exchange for our labor. That's pretty offensive.

I've also written about other facets of this topic: about food bloggers' appropriate place in food media, and about how to decide if you should be using food blogs or recipe websites. But today I'm gonna make sure you understand why this critique is also misogynistic.

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