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A once a week update on all things food/family/community/gardening/whatever! We call it SideCar—if it has to do with rituals around food and holidays, making food, or taking it places, or remembering what we were eating during important times in our lives, we’ll talk about it here. (The entire first season and part of the second season can be currently found under the Two Chocolate Cakes podcast feed, while I move all the episodes over to this feed) Support this podcast: https://podcasters.s ...
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Good News Only (mostly) plus April Food Holidays: Also: Blueberry's Birthday is April 12! ' Laddie Marmalade makes an audible appearance (is that possible to make an appearance but only be heard?) anyway, he purrs into the microphone twice and I bet you can hear it because I'm so bad at editing out noises. support the pod by talking it up, rating i…
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I almost did a She Is Risen title but thought better of it. Life update and end of March Food Holidays. You can support the podcast by joining the patreon at patreon.com/twochocolatecakes --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/side…
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Two things: I have a lot to say and a lot of it is complaining and 2. I seem also to have the sniffles. Sorry about that. Don't forget: Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit on Thursday --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/sup…
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I am starting to think French toast is an anti-depressant! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/support
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So far this year is going ok! AND IT SNOWED A LITTLE TODAY! Can you believe it? If you want to contribute to the year long food/cocktail/whatever calendar patreons get first dibs. So now is a great time to join! patreon.com/twochocolatecakes --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/messageSupport this…
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I start off low but finish strong. Also, I blame Donald Trump in the middle for everything bad that ever happened. Announcing the New Food Holidays Calendar for next year! Start thinking what food you want to claim and on what day. Patreons get first dibs--join the patreon at patreon.com/twochocolatecakes Thanks for your support and friendship ever…
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Also the episode where you can hear that I have a touch of the COVID because I'm a little outta breath. A reminder that you can support the pod by joining the patreon ( patreon.com/twochocolatecakes ) or by rating, sharing, talking up the podcast on your socials. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencolesl…
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The episode where I tell you at least three times that I am not gonna tell you my whole saga and then I go ahead and tell you the saga. x 3 Food Holidays I love stuffed animals. Join the patreon and get recipes! Patreon.com/twochocolatecakes --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/messageSupport this…
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I want your recipes! send me your holiday cookie recipes with any story that accompanies them : twochocolatecakes@gmail.com Inflatables update Call your elected officials about a cease fire. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/s…
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I did the math. I need 500 patreons and then I can do this pretty much full time. JUST THINK OF THE RECIPES AND CONTENT. patreon.com/twochocolatecakes --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/support…
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Little warning-front half is a little melancholy but then it perks up around the middle and finishes strong reminding you to RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT Household updates. What's going on in the garden and the farmers market. New things I learned. join the patreon for extras. patreon.com/twochocolatecakes --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.sp…
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Storm Prep, Pet News, Maui, Food Hols and it is time to start thinking about Advent Calendars. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/support
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In which I have a scratchy voice and dwell in the past again. Don't forget Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit on August 1, first thing in the morning. Still trying to sort out all the old SideCars and move them over. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.co…
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Catch up episode with food holidays, pet health updates, new charitable animal healthcare non profit that I started A Little Extra which can be found at ALittleExtraFund.org I am on all the socials that aren't completely overrun by white nationalists as @jencoleslaw so you can find me if Twitter falls into a sinkhole of sewage You can join the patr…
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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 yo…
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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…
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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, please find t…
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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…
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This is the new feed for the SideCar podcast. I am not sure I can get all the previous episodes up now that Anchor is part of Spotify, but I will try! For now, you can get all the first year of SideCar on the Two Chocolate Cakes feed. Going forward, I will try to keep all the SideCars here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.co…
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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 supportThe Great Red Retriever's Heartworm* treatment please consider a donation tothe Golden Ratio Foundation https://goldenratiofoundation.org/ To supportthe podcast please consider joining the patreon at patreon.co…
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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 atAslin Brewing in Herndon. 11-4 pm --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/p…
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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 …
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A FewThings To Know: Zeppoles for Saturday! This is far more important than whatever happens on Friday The BakeryI 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 avery small pollinator habitat in the middle of a kind of crappy historicparking lot at a brewery on …
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Good News: spring is seriously here because of some newsout of the Farmers Markets! New Feature: Food News! Tag me in any interestingfood news stories! The usual food holidays and a reminder to get yourself someSugar Snap Pea seeds for Pea Planting Day! Also, if Twitter implodes you can find me @jencoleslaw@twochocolatecakes on Instagram --- Send i…
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It finally snowed here A little bit about myworkwork RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT I have a new computerand none of my settings are the same so I keep having to switch back to the oldcomputer that is overheating and has a bad keyboard to record and upload thepodcast Now that I've been doingthis a year and over 50 episodes, we're calling it: SideCar is now i…
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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 mygarden; 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…
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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 h…
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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 …
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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 CITRUSSEASON. Go get you some. A reminder that RedBubble store is now closed because they are shitty to small creators …
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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 2019episode (Auld Lang Syne) of The Anthropocene Reviewed (on all the podcastplatforms) or if you are an audible.com member, use a credit to buy theAnthropocene Revie…
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Dec 19 • 24:17 Just hear those sleigh bells jingling, ring ting tinglingtoo.... you know it's lovely weather to just stay home. Here's hoping that whatever your holiday wishesare--whether they are to be with friends and family, or to be alone to celebratesolstice, to be on a warm beach or watching "snow falling faintly throughthe universe and faint…
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The Shortest Day and the Longest Episode Dec9 • 28:23 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 atpatreon.com/twochocolatecakes --- Send i…
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I have a scratchy voice, sorry about that. In this episode we talk about holiday expectations ofyourself 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 conten…
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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 a…
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A hodge-podge of an episode--back from the trip! A little roughed up. Pet update! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/support
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Remote broadcast today complete with weird echo, and othernoises I had no control over. Let's call them "ambiance." You neverrealize how loud your hotel room is until you have to try to record something in it. Also, the slowest upload speeds ever. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/messageSuppor…
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Last weekend I went to CT to visit my mother and sister. Itwas a whole thing. And it wasn't all good things and so the pod kind ofreflects that. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/support…
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Some of you know about my emotional support hippo, Fatniss, but not everyone knows the whole story so today on this special anniversary weekend, I'm sharing the Fatniss Friendship story with you. The Batter Top Cobbler is behind a paywall at America's Test Kitchen but if you have any of those cookbooks (baking) it might be in there. Clickhere to jo…
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Sep 25 • 20:09 In this episode I show my middle class ass by complaining about how hard it was to keepmy pool clean this summer. 🙄😬 Also, I revisit something I talked about earlier in the year and that is about who curates our digital lives and taking advantage of opportunities to hear and save family oral history and why it is important to me to d…
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In this episode, I talk about who we would line up 10 milesand 30+ hours to spend 10 seconds saying goodbye to, the way folks in the UKare with the Queen. There's also a little musing about how the media wouldcover big historical events like the JFK or MLK assassinations or otherimportant news stories. I got my booster shot this week and I felt kin…
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This is a short midweek episode with some thoughts aboutcollective mourning, funerals and lack of due to the pandemic and how we might take advantage of this gigantic worldwide event to process our own losses. I'll be back this weekend w/ food holidays and an update on how the Lamb Mowing event went (tomorrow!) --- Send in a voice message: https://…
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You can absolutely tell that I am tired today so sorry forall the little mistakes and noises that I didn't have to energy to edit out!Gift with purchase! And I realized after I record that Stand Up to Cancer dayis a UK based fundraiser (I think?) where comedians raise money for cancer research so my rant is a little off but the point still remains.…
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Gracious, I had a lot to tell you this week. I havea new sign on, and a new sign off! I hope you like it. Don't forget: RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT on Thursday MorningFIRST THING. September is a treasure trove of excellent food holidays. Imean, it is POTATO MONTH, people! Join the patreon at www.patreon.com/twochocolatecakes Buy a Ko-Fi @ https://ko-fi.co…
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It is a short one this week, and it is boring. A few highlights: Waffle Day! Bat Night! Dog Day! Over10,000 downloads! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/support…
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You can absolutely tell that I am tired today so sorry forall the little mistakes and noises that I didn't have to energy to edit out!Gift with purchase! And I realized after I record that Stand Up to Cancer dayis a UK based fundraiser (I think?) where comedians raise money for cancer research so my rant is a little off but the point still remains.…
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3 things that weregood this week plus a bonus crossover event 4th thing Some chatter about Tiktok A little light scolding about the news What's going on inthe garden! Three books I love! Food Holidays! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com…
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I'm going to workharder at finding things to feel good about and this week, I present to you three joys plus a memory! A reminder that recipes and show notes (if there are any) can be found at twochocolatecakes.com and you can support this podcast here via Spotify and Anchor, or Patreon, or even Ko-Fi (link on twitter profile @twochoccakes and @jen…
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Introducing aJENda Podcast plus THREE GOOD THINGS --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/support
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It's a MINI SIDECAR Chaser! The August Food Holidaysfor the month plus some that I made up and honestly I did such a nice job I think I should make them up every month--what do you think? plus Cookie Report! Also a teaser on the DAY holidays, and I veer into the unknown by talking about the Multiverse. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcaster…
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It is hot out, everything is overgrown, and I am longingfor the beforetimes. Even for in person work meetings around a big table and a box of Dunkin' Munchkins. Do they even make those anymore? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidecar-jencoleslaw/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho…
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