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Two Chocolate Cakes
by Jen Coleslaw
Two Chocolate Cakes, A Culinary Memoir follows the writer from one of her earliest family memories—making a scratch chocolate cake with a purloined recipe for her father’s birthday, a cake he would never eat on his birthday because he would be passed out drunk before the sun would set, to another chocolate cake, made by strangers but sent by friends, some 40 years later, and all the culinary and emotional layers in between those moments.Become a Patron!
Episodes
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Season 2 Introduction
Welcome back! Here's a little teaser to let you know we're back. Also I think I don't love the intro music so I might change it up. And if you're looking for SideCar Podcast with Jen Coleslaw you need to find that on its own feed now! It won't be here anymore! To support this work please join the...
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SideCar: The Dog Days Episode
Oh hey are you still listening to SideCar over here? You really really need to listen to it at SideCar Podcast with Jen Coleslaw. You're keeping me from uploading Two Chocolate Cakes Episodes! Let me know if it is not on your podcast player--btw, Stitcher is no longer carrying any podcasts so I...
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Second Floor Chicken Dinner (season 1 finale)
And so we come to the end of Season 1 of Two Chocolate Cakes, and it is with one of the most bland meals out of the entire series, but still a meal I love more than anything--it is a comfort meal that I eat even now, many years later. It is also one of the only kinds of meat I can manage to cook...
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Catnip Mice
a brief history of some of my favorite cats, and their favorite drug of choice. Spoiler alert: like many of the stories in this series, it is sad.
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Kay's Christmas Eve Lasagna and Christmas Day (Dad's Favorite) Beef Stew
After my parents' divorce, Kay took over hosting Christmas. She made it special after Mom swore never to celebrate holidays again, even putting a tiny 2 food christmas tree in the room I stayed in. A reminder that you can support the podcast by joining the Patreon at one of the 4 levels. and that...
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Quintana Roo's Tofu Scramble
There was something about Portland that gave me courage. I don't know if it was the weather, or the fact that I had a job where I was respected, or if it was all that incredible beer (and let me tell you, the beer was OUTSTANDING) or if it was the rain, but it was something. I only wish that I…
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Debi Guidry's New Orleans Style Hummus and Chips
How to meet new neighbors in a new city! Step one: Move across the country where you know one person Step two: have an accident Step three: figure out who in the building full of strangers can help (spoiler alert--it is the person dancing to Phantom of the Opera)
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Wedding Cake by Jeanne
What is it that Taylor says? "Sometimes you just don't know the answer til someone's on their knees and asks you?"
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Denise Ricci's Salsa
Also known as The Tale of Two Patricks. 😉
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Best Box Lunch
What does goes into the lunchbox when you're working as a landscaper with your father?
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Thorp Hall Weekend Dinner
What was the first thing you learned to make when you left home? Do you remember? Did you have some kind of crazy college dorm room food hack? I did and IT WAS DELICIOUS! PS. You can actually hear Peat yowling on this one. I just did not have it in me to re-record. So you get two sad cat meows as…
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The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich
In that weird in-between time of high school and college summer jobs, in the days before internships and real jobs, I worked at the most magical summer resort. If you remember the movie Dirty Dancing--you know this resort.
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Scrambled Eggs with Pepperoni
My father's signature meal. After he got sober and changed jobs, my mother started working two nights a week at a halfway house. Dad and I took turns making dinner but neither of us were particularly skilled in the kitchen, but we liked what we ate.
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Pastry Wrapped Olives
The Bullocks were one of many families that became my family, but the first family where I was well and truly wanted.
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Trail Mix
When your childhood friends go on without you.
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Day After Thanksgiving Pecan Pie
Sometimes, it isn't the holiday, but all the rituals AROUND the holiday that is the special part. Oh, and the leftovers.
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Blueberry Cake
The first of many stories about what I did on my summer vacations. 😬
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Spagetti Sauce
What is that one thing you cooked for all your old lovers? The thing that you were sure made you irresistible?
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Fried Smelts
Sometimes you cannot get that smell out of your nose. Or the things you see out of your head.
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Mrs Roch's Macaroni and Cheese
There's something about other people's kitchens that I will always love--probably because they have always been safe harbor for me (for the most part) and the very first (and for the next several decades) "family" kitchen for me was the Roch's kitchen where I learned how to make Macaroni and Cheese.
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Mrs Weatherstone's Chocolate Birthday Cake
This is the First Chocolate Cake.
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Introduction to the series: Two Chocolate Cakes
Let's set the table, shall we? This whole series started out as a literal recipe box that I still have, more than 25? maybe more? years later. I was looking at it as a creative writing prompt. Even though I keep a lot of my recipes in an online recipe keeper now because I am afraid of losing…
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Introduction To The Podcast
Welcome to the Limited Series, Two Chocolate Cakes! For more information about the Author, recipes, photos and more, please visit Two Chocolate Cakes
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Two Chocolate Cakes, A Culinary Memoir follows the writer from one of her earliest family memories—making a scratch chocolate cake with a purloined recipe for her father’s birthday, a cake he would never eat on his birthday because he would be passed out drunk before the sun would set, to another chocolate cake, made by strangers but sent by friends, some 40 years later, and all the culinary and emotional layers in between those moments.Become a Patron!
HOSTED BY
Jen Coleslaw
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Two Chocolate Cakes, A Culinary Memoir follows the writer from one of her earliest family memories—making a scratch chocolate cake with a purloined recipe for her father’s birthday, a cake he would never eat on his birthday because he would be passed out drunk before the sun would set, to another...
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Two Chocolate Cakes is created and hosted by Jen Coleslaw.
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