While I usually boycott Valentine’s Day on principle (it’s a materialistic holiday that makes my gender look like a bunch of Vermont Teddy Bear hungry fools), I will go so far as buying Dan a stupid card (this year’s featured a matchbook and the phrase “burning love”) and making a nice dinner. If nothing else, [...]
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Chocolate Mousse
This year, because of an impending wedding, my father’s new dive charter, and the fact that all of my siblings are either in school, employed by AmeriCorps, or in the Army, we are not exchanging Christmas gifts. Which is great, I was only asked to bring home pie, which is why this week I made [...]
Tarheel Pie
Growing up, my grandmother made a chocolate chess pie. It is essentially a chocolate pie. It’s so rich you’ll have a hard time finishing just a sliver of a slice. The last time I made a chocolate pie (my friends Emilie and Laura were having a chocolate party) only a third of it got eaten, [...]


