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 patreon at www.patreon.com/twochocolate cakes --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/twochocolatecakes/support

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 can't help you there. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/twochocolatecakes/support

If you're listening to this on this feed, this is your last warning that SideCar will only be on the SideCar Podcast with Jen Coleslaw feed going forward. Please find it there. That's where I put all the show notes! You can find the new nonprofit I talked about: A Little Extra at ALittleExtraFund.org xoxo jen --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/twochocolatecakes/support

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...

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 handmixer. You can support this (and SideCar) Podcast by joining the patreon at patreon.com/twochocolatecakes or...

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 (THAT IS THIS 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...

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. REMEMBER that I am moving the SIDECAR episodes to their own feed. Make sure you follow SideCar Podcast with Jen Coleslaw!...

Also: Dog update, what's at the farmers market, the importance of partially ripe strawberries, and the demise of my beloved swimming pool. Also, Humminbird Cake has PINEAPPLE in it ALSO: I have closed down my redbubble store because they're awful and I now have a shop at Threadless. I am still adding things to it. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/twochocolatecakes/support

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/ To support the podcast please consider joining the patreon at patreon.com/twochocolatecakes *spoiler: He does not retrieve. --- Support this podcast:...

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 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/twochocolatecakes/support

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...

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...

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 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/twochocolatecakes/support

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...

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!  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/twochocolatecakes/support

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...

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...

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.  I made a bunch of sticker designs that can also go on t shirts and hoodies and totes and you can find them starting Monday December 9 at the Redbubble Store --- Support this podcast:...

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...

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...

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.  You can support this podcast by joining the Patreon at patreon.com/twochocolatecakes  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/twochocolatecakes/support

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.  If you'd like to get more content, join the patreon at patreon.com/twochocolatecakes At some point Twitter will be done and Patreon is where all my good between podcast...

Just a quickie to get you ready for Thanksgiving, for better or worse! and finish out the month of food holidays. I'm considering entering a holiday cookie contest and need to decide which recipe.  We got a $9000 plumbing bill to pay next week so if you're on the fence about the Patreon,  this would be a good month to join. :-)  You can check it out at patreon.com/twochocolatecakes  Not sure what is going to happen with Twitter but you can always find me  at instagram and tiktok...

*Thanks to the listeners who alerted me that I uploaded LAST WEEK's Episode-sorry about that!  Still got a little jetlag I think.  xoxo A HODGE-PODGECAST! Yes I said it.  Back from the trip, falling through the doorway at the UPS store so now I got a swollen knee AND my achilles tendon is about to rupture, unpacking, thinking about the holidays, getting ready to bring a carload full of toys to our Hot Dog guy (Dave's Dogs)  who runs a Toys for Tots drop off. If you would like to throw a...