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If you like playing tabletop games with friends and/or baking I’d like you to know about the Kickstarter for this amazing book, the Edible Games Cookbook. I’m lucky enough to know Jenn Sandercock and to have gotten to play a few of the games and they were great fun. She’s taken care to include suggestions for savory, sweet, gluten-free, nut-free, sugar-free, vegetarian and vegan substitutions where applicable (whew). If you’d like to know more there is a downloadable sample chapter on the Kickstarter page as well as all the information you might want.

Cheese Straws at Smitten Kitchen. I bring these to holiday parties and they are always a crowd favorite

Brave Tart’s amazing gingerbread house in pretty intimidating Ann Reardon shows us how to make a Gravity Falls themed jar of eyeballs and a horrifying gelatin hand. Also, her remake of the bleeding Taylor Swift heart cake would work really well for Halloween. Halloween party food including this amazing Jack-o-lantern cake, with recipes and assembly instructions.

The Polish Community Center in Seattle has weekly dinners and their pickle soup is amazing, I hope this recipe will be as good as that version. How to Stock Your Home Bar on the Cheap (Yes, We’re Naming Bottles) | Man Made DIY. Also, it’s way, way easier to roll out your dough when it’s still room temperature and chill it afterwards. As somebody who loves shishito and padron pepper season I’m happy to see we’ll be getting more non-hot pepper options.