Minty Choco Chip Cake Mix Cookies

This recipe uses the other half of chocolattey cake mix that I used in the choco cranberry sauce cake mix cupcakes. Also uses half chocolate chips and half crème de menthe baking chips. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Choco Cranberry Sauce Cake Mix Cupcakes

This simple recipe has three ingredients besides spray oil—a 14-oz can of jellied cranberry sauce, a box of chocolaty cake mix, and eggs. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

White Castle Stuffing?

White Castle burgers as main ingredient for Thanksgiving turkey stuffing? Seriously? Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Carrots and Tops and Bugs Oh My

I write about topless and topped carrots and Bugs relations. Bonus: Carrot homophones. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

5 Years of Continuous Blogging, Part 4

This article is the fourth (and final) one in my series about having blogged continuously for five years. I discuss the process of collecting my blogging data and reporting them in tables and graphs, but this time, …. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

5 Years of Continuous Blogging, Part 3

This article is the third one in my series about having blogged continuously for five years. It describes how I collected the basic data for my five years of continuous blogging, used some elementary Excel calculations, and graphed some results. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

5 Years of Continuous Blogging, Part 2

In my article about blogging 5 years (part 1), I emphasize quantities of articles over the last five years. This time, I emphasize numbers of words for articles. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

5 Years of Continuous Blogging, Part 1

I initially started blogging to create writing samples in addition to samples I have for my technical writing portfolio. Every month for the past 5 years, starting in September 2009, I have published something. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Crustless Quiche Mini-Loaves

This recipe is flourless, thus, gluten-free. The filling ingredients are—besides evaporated milk and eggs—coarse-cut ham pieces, cut-up sliced Swiss cheese, and thawed and drained, previously frozen zucchini. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Varying Zucchini Mini-Muffin Methods

I contrast zucchini mini-muffins for shape, pan positioning in the oven, and uaing previously frozen vs. fresh-shred zucchini. The article is a followup to my recipes for square and round zucchini mini-muffins. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Fresh-Shred Zucchini Mini-Muffins (Square)

This recipe contrasts with the one for the round minis for using square-well silicone pans instead of round-well aluminum pans. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Fresh-Shred Zucchini Mini-Muffins (Round)

Make use of the abundance of zucchini! These round mini-muffins are 1/3 the volume of regular cupcakes. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Zucchini Overflow?

Good harvest of zucchini lately? Gotten a bunch from people who have been harvesting them? An explanation for the overflow might be from wiseGEEK's "What is zucchini?" site. "Many markets carry this squash in the summer, and it is also a snap to grow at home, although some caution is advised, as the plants can produce way more fruit than one would think is physically possible." Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Minty Choco Chip Pudding

Look ma, no cooking! Just combine, whisk, stir, and pour ingredients into cups. Ready to eat within minutes. Reasonably lo-cal at a smidge over 200 calories each container. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Whatever's-In-Your-Kitchen Ham Sauce Recipe

An EZ recipe for ham sauce that evolved from my online search for a ham glaze. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

LinkedIn Connection Request for Favor--Job Hunt

Use LinkedIn job hunting features by searching in Jobs and People (former and current workers). Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2014/05/linkedin-connection-request-for-favor.html and comment there, please.

EZ Pineapple Cupcakes

Recipe for moist, easy-to-prepare, yummy pineapple cupcakes. They're rich-tasting and need no frosting for additional flavor. Ingredients and steps are few. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2014/04/ez-pineapple-cupcakes.html and comment there, please.

Revisiting Tagging Your LinkedIn(r) Connections

Note (5/30/2014): I just now noticed that LinkedIn changed the menu from Network > Contacts to Connections  > Keep in Touch.

Update of the process for customizing and categorizing your LinkedIn® connection groupings. The PDF file of the step-by-step procedure, including screen captures, is downloadable at https://app.box.com/s/ju04h698elb8j5dc0m0. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2014/04/revisiting-tagging-your-linkedin.html and comment there, please.

Soldiering On Military Ranks

Researches into military ranks across the branches, spurred by curiosity about pronunciations, spellings, and context of some military ranks. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2014/03/soldiering-on-military-ranks.html and comment there, please.

Cookie Mix Recipe: Fat Deviating

Deviating from a cooky mix recipe by replacing half of the butter called for with cooking oil and sesame oil. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2014/03/cookie-mix-recipe-fat-deviating.html and comment there, please.

Mini-cupcake Offload: Pan Type & Prep, Batter Amt

Mini-cupcake experiment of using spray oil and flour or spray oil alone in silicone and aluminum pans. (Includes recipe for Choco Cherry Choco Chip Mini-cupcakes.) Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2014/02/mini-cupcake-offload-pan-type-and-prep.html and comment there, please.

Fudge Offload: Silicon Vs. Aluminum Pans

Fudge experiment of using spray oil and powdered sugar in the cavities of silicone and aluminum pans. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2014/02/fudge-offload-silicone-vs-aluminum-pans.html and comment there, please.

Anachronistic Songs, Part 2 of 2

"Anachronistic Songs, Part 1 of 2" covered blasts from the past WRT another-era terms (example: "groove") and some terminology definition shifts (ex: example: "straight"). This part continues with unPC-ness, dimes and related costs, and years. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2014/01/anachronistic-songs-part-2-of-2.html and comment there, please.

Anachronistic Songs, Part 1 of 2

Common characteristics of an anachronistic song, usually the song having been out at least a few decades ago:

• It includes a term that was popular or a norm in a particular era "long ago".
• It includes a term that the definition has shifted over time.
• It is more likely now to be considered culturally or politically insensitive than in the past.
• It contains reference to a year number.

Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2014/01/anachronistic-songs-part-1-of-2.html and comment there, please.