• Matt’s Batched Margaritas

    April 16, 2026Rob

    Recipe from Matt D. who shared it with me after I had one at his house for our book club meeting. It was the best margarita I’d tasted. I texted Matt afterwards asking for the recipe and he very graciously shared it with me. He said the secret ingredient is the limes that he uses. They’re Persian limes from his own tree which he says are extra juicy and have a hint of sweetness.

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  • Texas Sheet Cake

    April 14, 2026Rob

    Recipe from America’s Test Kitchen which states, “Texas Sheet Cake is a huge, pecan-topped cake with three distinct layers of chocolaty goodness. We poured sweet chocolate icing over a cake hot out of the oven. When it cooled, we had an icing layer, a fudgy layer where the icing and hot cake had mixed together, and a bottom layer of moist cake. Most existing Texas sheet cake recipes called for a scant amount of cocoa powder, which makes for measly chocolate taste. We wanted our Texas Sheet Cake recipe to pack in even more chocolate flavor. Doubling the amount of…

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