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Owl Be Home For Christmas
Vintage Scots Christmas recipes: “Good Fare Christmas”
From the Young Wizards universe: an update
Irish life: The things you don’t discuss, Halloween...
Q&A: Why is my Malt-O-Meal lumpy and how...
From the Baking-While-You-Write Department: Spicy Apple Pie
Peter Morwood on Moroccan preserved lemons
Greek mythology, feminist reclamation of lost/ancient tradition, and...
Changes coming at YoungWizards.com: your opinion(s) solicited
Outlining: one writer’s approach
A project in progress: translating “La Patissière des...
Pulling The Lever
Weird bread
Peter’s Isolation Goulasch
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Maluns

by Diane Duane December 15, 2020

Owl Be Home For Christmas

by Diane Duane November 27, 2020

Vintage Scots Christmas recipes: “Good Fare Christmas”

by Diane Duane November 23, 2020

From the Young Wizards universe: an update

by Diane Duane November 6, 2020

Irish life: The things you don’t discuss, Halloween Edition

by Diane Duane October 30, 2020

Q&A: Why is my Malt-O-Meal lumpy and how can I fix it?

by Diane Duane October 28, 2020

From the Baking-While-You-Write Department: Spicy Apple Pie

by Diane Duane October 16, 2020

Peter Morwood on Moroccan preserved lemons

by Diane Duane September 26, 2020

Greek mythology, feminist reclamation of lost/ancient tradition, and an interface issue: or,...

by Diane Duane September 13, 2020

Changes coming at YoungWizards.com: your opinion(s) solicited

by Diane Duane August 18, 2020

Outlining: one writer’s approach

by Diane Duane July 25, 2020

A project in progress: translating “La Patissière des Petits Menages”

by Diane Duane July 20, 2020
...Wrong lever.
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Pulling The Lever

by Diane Duane May 26, 2020
May 26, 2020

This post is as much a marker for me as anything else; the sign of a lot of (sometimes deeply annoying) work finished, and a return to more normal operations…

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Weird bread

by Diane Duane April 9, 2020
April 9, 2020

Well, a little weird. Ireland is on COVID-19 lockdown (and will be for the next couple/few weeks, it looks like), and our next grocery delivery isn’t until nearly the middle…

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Peter's Isolation Goulasch
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Peter’s Isolation Goulasch

by Diane Duane April 4, 2020
April 4, 2020

(Appearing here because his own site is down for restructuring at the moment.) Himself says: This is a “what was available in the house” reduction from my main goulash recipe,…

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The virtual desk at the moment
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Business As (un)Usual

by Diane Duane April 4, 2020
April 4, 2020

With the COVID-19 pandemic spreading itself about, it seemed like a good idea to give people a local status report of what’s going on with us over here. The short…

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Food, restaurants and cookingrecipes

Not Really Hungarian Pork Chops

by Diane Duane March 13, 2020
March 13, 2020

Every now and then, in the work surrounding the slow retooling of the EuropeanCuisines.com website, I wind up doing some casual detective work to try to find the source of…

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At the Ebooks Direct store: everything 50% off till Whenever

by Diane Duane March 12, 2020
March 12, 2020

(Caption: “Be like our hard-working staff! Wash your hands.”) So last night I looked at the state of the world and thought to myself, “It may be that some people…

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Playing with Terragen: the Jungfrau Massif

by Diane Duane February 13, 2020
February 13, 2020

I’ve been using Planetside Software’s Terragen program/app for cover work and concept art for a long while, with varying levels of success. (Mostly having to do more with my own…

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Carmela and Sunspark: it probably had to happen
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At the Ebooks Direct “office”: A chance meeting

by Diane Duane February 9, 2020
February 9, 2020

(“…as we say in Middle-Earth.”) So I was setting up some promo art for an ebook sale that’s going to be offered on Tumblr only. Nothing fancy. The Ebooks Direct “office”.…

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CrossingsCon 2021: We’ve got dates!

by Diane Duane February 4, 2020
February 4, 2020

A lot of you will know that 2019 was kind of a busy year for me. Unquestionably one of the most fun things to happen during the year was CrossingsCon,…

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Handling Twitter

by Diane Duane January 10, 2020
January 10, 2020

Some time back I noticed that some people who use Twitter and have a fair number of followers have put up guides to the ways they use the platform, and…

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2020 Hugo Nomination Eligibility: the Tale of the Five Series

by Diane Duane January 8, 2020
January 8, 2020

So it’s that time of year when nominations open up for the World Science Fiction Society’s Hugo Awards, and it turns out that this year, once again, work of mine…

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From the (theoretically forthcoming) CUISINES AND FOODS OF THE MIDDLE KINGDOMS: Cracknels

by Diane Duane December 30, 2019
December 30, 2019

Using the vestigial English term “cracknel” to define this common snack food format of the Middle Kingdoms may at first seem a strange choice, considering the weird peripatetic course the…

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Maluns

Owl Be Home For Christmas

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Irish life: The things you don’t discuss, Halloween...

Q&A: Why is my Malt-O-Meal lumpy and how...

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