Maple Brown Sugar Biscuit Bombs
What are your donut requirements? I HAVE VERY SPECIFIC DONUT REQUIREMENTS AND CALIFORNIA HASN’T BEEN MEETING THEM.
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Maple Brown Sugar Pull-Apart Bread
Maple Brown Sugar Pull-Apart Bread
This is my eleventh year teaching, but every single year one thing remains the same: the beginning of school is terrifying. And actually, the past two years have been especially hard. I don’t know why; my best guess is that when I took a year off to go to grad school, I lost my faith that I could teach. It made the beginning of last year so rocky: I just didn’t feel right in front of these kids who expected so much from me. Was I really the right teacher for them?
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Butter Pecan Cake
Butter Pecan Cake
When I was little, my favorite ice cream flavor was always cookies & cream. That is, until the early 90s, when cookie dough ice cream hit the shelves. Ice cream with cookie dough MIXED RIGHT IN. Like you literally didn’t even have to sneak it out of the fridge anymore. My little life was changed.
While I was busy surveying new flavors and adjusting accordingly, though, my dad always stayed true to his one favorite flavor: butter pecan.
Ultimate Peanut Butter Cake (and Something You Should Know About Me)
Ultimate Peanut Butter Cake
There’s something I want you to know about me. I’ve wrestled for quite awhile about how to say this, but I’ve never wrestled with whether or not it needs to be said. If you don’t know this, you don’t know me. And if this space isn’t a space to share myself and learn about you, it’s nothing to me.
Almond Biscuit Bombs (and How to Stop Calling the Police)
Almond Biscuit Bombs
Calling the police on Black people puts them in danger. White folks, we’ve started to use calling the police more as a way to keep people out of certain spaces or prevent certain behaviors than to respond to legitimate emergencies. When we do this without examining our biases — without asking ourselves why we feel like certain people don’t belong or certain behaviors are a nuisance — it’s not surprising that the outcomes tend to be racist.
There are plenty of recent examples: the white woman who called police on Black people barbecuing, the white woman who called police on a Black woman taking a nap in her dorm common room, the white woman who called police on two Black men waiting for a friend at Starbucks. Any of these could’ve ended in tragedy. One solution is obviously dealing with the militarized and racially biased policing that is simply a fact in our country.
But another? Another is to STOP CALLING THE POLICE. I’ve grappled with this over the past few years as a white woman, and here’s my own personal plan:
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