Holiday chit chat

Why Mom's apple pie is so good?

Friendsgiving

Election Day Download from Virginia

I say something nice about Northern Virginia

Food Holidays

This episode is all about vibes.

Don't forget: Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit on Friday/Saturday

and FALL BACK on Saturday/Sunday

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I wrote this twice and the first draft was ragey and the second draft is less rage but really got wore out and so this is not well edited. More talk about the fires in LA than about incoming administration. I didn't cry once! My voice is still just that scratchy.

You win a prize if you can tell me how many times a cat sneezed while I was recording. Also, which cat.

Wondering if there's a live cameo for letting people facetime with my pets.

Food Holidays

We are just a few days away from the end of one year and the beginning of the next and if you don't have a plan or a bunch of resolutions, I got you covered.

Plus food holidays! Chocolate Covered Cherry Day is coming!

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Surviving Election and the Holidays

New Features at the Patreon

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I do not think those dogdamn rabbits are working, people.

Exactly what you think it will be. Me being mad about fascists. What kind of deal would you make with God or the Devil to ensure a win? Also, food holidays! Nice Weather! Halloween Candy! Rufus Waffles and Blueberry contribute to the podcast! Clown Shoes rubs his face on the microphone more than once! Also, please don't forget to say your rabbits on Thursday night/Friday Morning!

In this episode I talk about how there are apples and decorative gourds at the farmers markets but not enough pumpkins. If you'd like to support my work you can do so by talking it up to people so more people listen to it. You can also join the patreon at patreon.com/twochocolatecakes

I recorded this and neglected to send energy out to Kathy and Fred and Suzie and Ella, and Jen I, and Kat's Dad, and Rich & Rachel, and my Mom.

Olympics and other sports

Joy

Turnovers

Millions of Peaches, peaches for me

Cease fire now!

Country Fairs

Food Holidays

"When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging," Jen's Mom (from a long time ago)

I have more time on my hands now that I am not working my side hustle at the hospital (which kind of sucks because even that little stipend was helpful) so I'm gonna try to be more here.

I am not sure that a tiktok will link here well but search for Light of a Clear Blue Morning Navy Chorus and you'll find it. The woman who posted and sings it is Madi. She's wonderful. Go listen to it. Makes sure you hear the whole thing. I'll post it on the patreon too.

I have lost track of what episode this is, but here are the facts:

• I recorded on a different computer and my settings are all hosed up.
• I have a wicket hoarse voice like Joe Biden, so what are you gonna do, put us BOTH out to pasture?
• It is such a nice day out here finally that I have the window open so you can hear the birds, and, the trash truck. I hope you find that whimsical

There was so much more I could have said in this podcast but I ran out of everything. I'll put it in the patreon.

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Whew. A long episode! Some new mom issues to deal with so that always takes time!

Will I still have a job the next time you hear from me? WHO KNOWS!

Also I keep losing track of what episode number these are so ... Sorry about that.

I have been listening to all my old episodes to try to get some kind of sense of what the hell I have been talking about all this time.

There are pumpkins at the farmers market, and apples, but so far not the apples I'm looking for.

The food holidays for October are great.

Please consider joining the patreon so I can pay off my hearing aids.

But if you can't support that way, maybe you could recommend the podcast so I can grow my audience? Maybe encourage folks to start with Two Chocolate Cakes podcast? Thanks!!

(the sound is a little weird because I was recording on a new laptop and I hate it)

Quick update

Happy Birthday to everyone with May Birthdays including ME

Garden/Pet/Pool updates

What's at the farmers markets

Remind me to tell you about Ramp Pesto! OMG it was so good. If you want the recipe you can join the Patreon! Your support allows me to try new things like ramps at $15 for 3 oz! And fancy mixers and sourdough starter! And who knows, I might be unemployed by the end of the summer.

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Good News Only (mostly) plus April Food Holidays:

Also: Blueberry's Birthday is April 12! '

Laddie Marmalade makes an audible appearance (is that possible to make an appearance but only be heard?) anyway, he purrs into the microphone twice and I bet you can hear it because I'm so bad at editing out noises.

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I almost did a She Is Risen title but thought better of it.

Life update and end of March Food Holidays.

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Two things: I have a lot to say and a lot of it is complaining and

2. I seem also to have the sniffles. Sorry about that.

Don't forget: Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit on Thursday

I am starting to think French toast is an anti-depressant!

So far this year is going ok!

AND IT SNOWED A LITTLE TODAY! Can you believe it?

If you want to contribute to the year long food/cocktail/whatever calendar patreons get first dibs. So now is a great time to join!

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I start off low but finish strong. Also, I blame Donald Trump in the middle for everything bad that ever happened.

Announcing the New Food Holidays Calendar for next year! Start thinking what food you want to claim and on what day. Patreons get first dibs--join the patreon at patreon.com/twochocolatecakes

Thanks for your support and friendship everyone. Not sure I would have survived without you. xoxo

Also the episode where you can hear that I have a touch of the COVID because I'm a little outta breath.

A reminder that you can support the pod by joining the patreon ( patreon.com/twochocolatecakes ) or by rating, sharing, talking up the podcast on your socials.

The episode where I tell you at least three times that I am not gonna tell you my whole saga and then I go ahead and tell you the saga. x 3

Food Holidays

I love stuffed animals.

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I want your recipes!

send me your holiday cookie recipes with any story that accompanies them : twochocolatecakes@gmail.com

Inflatables update

Call your elected officials about a cease fire.

*updated file!*

Peach season is winding down

Apples are terrible so far here

Where are the pumpkins!

It is Ginger Cat Appreciation Day

Potato Month

Waffle Week

Silence = Consent

My linktree of my few favorite items

I did the math. I need 500 patreons and then I can do this pretty much full time. JUST THINK OF THE RECIPES AND CONTENT.

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Little warning-front half is a little melancholy but then it perks up around the middle and finishes strong reminding you to RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT

Household updates. What's going on in the garden and the farmers market. New things I learned.

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Storm Prep, Pet News, Maui, Food Hols and it is time to start thinking about Advent Calendars.

In which I have a scratchy voice and dwell in the past again.

Don't forget Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit on August 1, first thing in the morning.

Still trying to sort out all the old SideCars and move them over.

Catch up episode with food holidays, pet health updates, new charitable animal healthcare non profit that I started A Little Extra which can be found at ALittleExtraFund.org

I am on all the socials that aren't completely overrun by white nationalists as @jencoleslaw so you can find me if Twitter falls into a sinkhole of sewage

You can join the patreon for as little as $3 a month (less if you sign up for the year) to be sure not to lose touch www.patreon.com/twochocolatecakes

A thoughtful (as in full of thought) episode about how, in the words of the Rolling Stones, with respect to Parents (ie., fathers) you can't always get what you want, but you can get what you need--by going outside the family unit and finding positive role models for either your kids or even yourself. If your spouse or the father (or mother!) of your kids isn't making it happen because they're ill or they're flawed or broken, find other people to fill the gaps.

Also: What's at the farmers market, how Rufus Poofus All Around Doofus is doing, what's growing in and eating up my garden.

Plus the food holidays.

A reminder that you can support this podcast by joining the patreon at Patreon.com/twochocolatecakes

The bad air last week and the unfortunate plan to clean up the living room of all the cat hair and dust really did me and my poor schnoop in this week so this episode is mostly a bit of complaining, two coughs that I didn't edit out (sorry) and food holidays. Hopefully I'll get back on track this weekend.

I'm still hoping for THREE more Patreons so I can get that super awesome hand mixer. You can support the podcast by joining the patreon at patreon.com/twochocolatecakes or if you're a Spotify user, supporting the podcast here for 4.99! (but if you join patreon you get perks!)

Donut Discussion

What's going on at the farmers markets where you are?

Peach Problems in Georgia

Food and Otherwise Holidays

Reminder: If you'd like to support the podcast you can do it via Spotify or even better: Patreon where you get perks.

A second reminder: If you're still listening to this podcast on the Two Chocolate Cakes feed, please find the SideCar Podcast with Jen Coleslaw on your podcast app and follow it there. By the end of June (hopefully) I will only be posting PodCast episodes there so I can start uploading Season 2 of Two Chocolate Cakes on the Two Chocolate Cakes Feed.

So I'm still healing from surgery so my voice is pretty goofy sounding and I am sorry for the occasional cough.

But we get caught up on Farmers Markets, What's going on the Garden, Dog News, and of course the end of May and beginning of June Food Holidays.

Also, RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT on Wednesday overnight. DO IT. I don't want to hear how you didn't do it.

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This is the new feed for the SideCar podcast. I am not sure I can get all the previous episodes up now that Anchor is part of Spotify, but I will try! For now, you can get all the first year of SideCar on the Two Chocolate Cakes feed. Going forward, I will try to keep all the SideCars here.

Who's in the garden

Where are the pumpkins?

What side are you on?

Happy Birthday to Mom

Food Holidays

waffles waffles waffles plus bananas

Also: Home is where the heart is; house is where the stuff is.

Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit (MAY 1)

Freeze dried candy

May Food Holidays!

 

To support The Great Red Retriever's Heartworm* treatment please consider a donation to the Golden Ratio Foundation https://goldenratiofoundation.org/

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*spoiler: He does not retrieve.

Farmers Market

The State of the Garden

The New Fridge

Climate Change is Real

New Dog!

Earth Day

Food Hols!

If you're local to me and come see me on Sunday the 16th at Aslin Brewing in Herndon. 11-4 pm

The episode where I complain some more about my mother.

Don't forget that Saturday is April 1 and NO JOKE: RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT.

You can support the podcast and encourage me to finish writing Season 2 of Two Chocolate Cakes (patreons get early looks/listens, occasional mail drops depending on the level, poetry readings, and pictures of things that are important to me--I will also answer all your email and give you encouragement and advice as needed) by joining the patreon at patreon.com/twochocolatecakes

A Few Things To Know:

Zeppoles for Saturday! This is far more important than whatever happens on Friday

The Bakery I talk about is The Red Truck Bakery in Warrenton (you can google and find all the stories) 

If you are local-ish and want to help build a very small pollinator habitat in the middle of a kind of crappy historic parking lot at a brewery on Sunday, come on by Aslin Beer 9:30 am -11:30 am March 19. 

We'll be doing another event there on April 16--Earth Daze which is all day (11-5) and much bigger and a good time and you should come if you want. Both events are free and pretty low stakes. 

Anchor just became Spotify for Podcasters so hopefully that won't slow down my ability to move the SideCar pods over to their own feed. 

Good News: spring is seriously here because of some news out of the Farmers Markets!

New Feature: Food News!  Tag me in any interesting food news stories! 

The usual food holidays and a reminder to get yourself some Sugar Snap Pea seeds for Pea Planting Day! 

Also, if Twitter implodes you can find me @jencoleslaw @twochocolatecakes on Instagram

It finally snowed here

A little bit about my workwork

RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT

I have a new computer and none of my settings are the same so I keep having to switch back to the old computer that is overheating and has a bad keyboard to record and upload the podcast

Now that I've been doing this a year and over 50 episodes, we're calling it: SideCar is now in its SECOND SEASON and I'd like to move the SideCar Podcast to its own feed if anyone knows how to do that... 😬 That way when Two Chocolate Cakes drops, it will be its own feed as well. 

there are a lot of weird smacks, pops,  and clicks in this because of the settings so I apologize for those extra annoying sounds.  In my defense, my nose is half broke, it appears so my breathing is all weird. 

Did you know that I've been doing this podcast for a year? Well, the combined Two Chocolate Cakes and the SideCar podcast. 

In this episode: What's going on with the weather and my garden; the perils of a part time legislature; wondering about sweet potatoes (did you have them growing up if you grew up north of the Mason Dixon line?) and more. 

 

Also, my owls are back! 

Alert! 🚨 ‼️ 🔔  Do Not Forget! 

Wednesday Morning: Rabbit 🐇 🐰 

And if you forget--don't tell me about it. I do not want to know. 

Wrap up of Food Holidays for All of February and there are some goodies! 

Two really good meals I had this week and I tell you all about them. 

Also it is Blood Orange Season so it is time to make Blood Orange Marmalade. 

Ok so here are (some of)  the lyrics to Mr Tambourine Man by Bob Dylan--made famous by the Byrds and I was thinking about it a lot this week because of the passing of David Crosby 

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip
My toes too numb to step
Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin'
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade
Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it

 

PS it is possible I we're at the 1 year anniversary of the podcast? How should we celebrate?

 

PPS If you love the podcast and want to support it, and get extras like mini podcasts, photos, essays, notes, postcards, stickers and other little periodic surprises, please join the patreon! 

Sorry I missed last week, but to make up for it, this podcast is almost A HALF HOUR LONG! 

note that I didn't say it was a REALLY GOOD PODCAST, just that it has more minutes. 

I'd love it if you shared some of your air fryer recipes with me. Otherwise we are just going to be eating chicken nuggets til the end of time. 

Here are the seed catalogs that I talked about in the pod, plus the handle of the person on TikTok who blew my mind yesterday

Pinetree garden seeds

https://www.superseeds.com/

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange

https://www.southernexposure.com/

Johnny’s Selected Seeds

https://www.johnnyseeds.com/

Kitchen Garden Seeds

https://www.kitchengardenseeds.com/

Hudson Valley Seed

https://hudsonvalleyseed.com/ TikTok person with wisdom about parents: @madicalized

A reminder about the futility of resolutions--they should serve you, not you serve them. 

Plus, a little list of some great animals I met this week! 

PLEASE NOTE: This week is PIZZA WEEK. Plan accordingly. 

We are also fully into SUMO CITRUS SEASON.  Go get you some. 

 

A reminder that RedBubble store is now closed because they are shitty to small creators and so now we have a Threadless Store instead.

Note: The sound is a little off on this episode and I apologize but I knew if I re-recorded it it would just be more days before I got it done so please don't throw your podcast player in the lake--it is operator (me) error.

Content Warning: Episode contains discussion of fathers, health, strawberry fungus, earwigs.

Do you have a meal planning program you recommend?

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A very quick set of important messages for you--

1. Resolutions and all that nonsense

2. Choosing Joy--who is with me?

3. Food Holidays

4. An assignment: please listen to the December 2019 episode (Auld Lang Syne)  of The Anthropocene Reviewed (on all the podcast platforms)  or if you are an audible.com member, use a credit to buy the Anthropocene Reviewed (John Green) book and listen to that chapter. You won't be sorry. It is required reading

5. If you'd like to support my work I'd love for you to join us at my Two Chocolate Cakes Patreon  patreon.com/twochocolatecakes 

Dec 19 • 24:17

Just hear those sleigh bells jingling, ring ting tingling too.... you know it's lovely weather to just stay home. 

Here's hoping that whatever your holiday wishes are--whether they are to be with friends and family, or to be alone to celebrate solstice, to be on a warm beach or watching "snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead" (James Joyce)  that you're having the holiday you want. 

In this episode we go over belonging and holiday rituals and some holiday history, and of course the food holidays as well as a good clapback for you to use  on anyone in your family who dares to define "woke" as a bad thing.   Reminder: If it is not Good News to the Poor--it is not Good News. 

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The Shortest Day and the Longest Episode

Dec 9 • 28:23

How is it on the shortest day we have the longest episode? Well, I'll take it! 

In which I present to you a short gift guide and of course, the food holidays for this week, and I only complain a tiny bit. 

 

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I have a scratchy voice, sorry about that.

In this episode we talk about holiday expectations of yourself and others, setting boundaries, advent calendars, my favorite bartenders,  and update to our plumbing issue, and who is profiting off of human suffering? 

UPDATE: I misspoke: 13th Doctor! What was I thinking! IYKYK. 

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At some point Twitter will be done and Patreon is where all my good between podcast stuff will probably end up.