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Jan 4Liked by Abby Rasminsky

Yes to Year of No!! I once said I want a t-shirt that reads โ€œNo Is My Spirit Animalโ€ and imho, not enough people said I was brilliant. ๐Ÿ–ค ๐Ÿฉท

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I love that! Make it!!

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Jan 5Liked by Abby Rasminsky

Try the King Arthur Flour bagel recipe (it was their recipe of the year a few years back). Very simple & straight-forward with delicious results! I started 2024 by finally embarking on reading The Covenant of Water. Thankfully this has been a slow week in my schedule because this book has pulled me in and Iโ€™m struggling to put it down! I highly recommend carving out some time with this amazing story, donโ€™t be scared by its length (700+ pages). Itโ€™s truly a work of literary art that Iโ€™m loving more than I expected.

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I want to read that! I have it and am worried about how...daunting it seems? But will I just be totally transported?? The bagel were a Montreal recipe from a class we took there, which was amazing! I think a few more tries might help?! xx

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The Covenant of Water appears daunting, with 700+ pages, but it is amazing and flows so quickly. Just make sure you have time set aside to allow yourself to be fully absorbed into this book! And I wish I had some Montreal bagels to eat while reading - YUM!!!

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Jan 4Liked by Abby Rasminsky

Yesss to all of this! Like you, a few days ago, I wrote down a few things I wanted to focus on (rather than specific resolutions) and the ones that immediately came to mind: more calls to my mom, more walks with my friend; less sugar, less stuff;)

I did also give myself the fun goal of baking one recipe each month for the whole year from the cookbook you turned me on to, Snacking Cakes! I did a Year of Pie not long ago & it was so much fun!!

I'm almost finished with my first read of the year, Such A Quiet Place by Megan Miranda, and it's great! I can't wait to know how the mystery unfolds.

Happy New Year, Abby! I'm so grateful for you xoxo

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Oh I love the baking goal! I want to do that. A year of pie sounds like a good challenge for me bc I bake so many other things regularly that once a month wouldn't be special...Thank you for the inspo! xx

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You're welcome! โค๏ธ And it had to be pies / recipes I'd never made before;)

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Not that I didnโ€™t deeply appreciate the content of your message, because I did. And also I donโ€™t like bagel jerky either, so try this: https://alexandracooks.com/2018/08/16/very-good-bagels-easy-ish-too/.

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Oh, thank you Alex! I will try it.

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