SideCar Podcast, with Jen Coleslaw

It's a MINI SIDECAR Chaser!  The August Food Holidays for 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. 

It is hot out, everything is overgrown, and I am longing for the beforetimes. Even for in person work meetings around a big table and a box of Dunkin' Munchkins. Do they even make those anymore? 

Where's your happy place? Or at least a place where you are LEAST unhappy? For me, that's the beach.  You can support this podcast via Spotify Support or through Patreon/twochocolatecakes --

This is not the usual content because so I had to get some stuff out of my system.   ⁠Here's the link I was telling you about where you can see all the companies that went back on their word to NOT fund insurrectionists or insurrection adjacent candidates. ⁠ https://popular.info/p/the-january-6-corporate-accountability A few other things: my voice sounds so weird! What is up with that? I liste...

The Cursed Carrot Cake Episode  Is there something in your life that haunts/taunts you? I have a carrot cake, but I might be ready to release my obsession.    If you'd like to support the podcast please consider joining the Patreon at one of four awesome levels.   For show notes, photos, recipes and more, visit twochocolatecakes.com 

Mini Side Car Mid Week Surprise: There are so many good Food Holidays in July that I wanted to make sure you were prepared.  Also a reminder about RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT.  June 28, 2022

The Storm Episode reads better than "Yet Another Episode About Dead Fathers." Update from the Farmers Market and the Garden--BLACK RASPBERRIES! 

Summer Time Foods This week's prompt of Summer Foods send me back to the Two Chocolate Cakes Origin Story. Tiny trigger warning that I do talk a little about past disordered eating (mine) so forewarned! 

I hope you like jammin' too. What to do when jam doesn't set up? No, really. There's no deeper meaning here. No metaphor. My jam is saucy not firm. I used up almost $40 worth of strawberries and 3+ hours of time and my jam didn't set.  June 12, 2022

The Metaphor Episode Do you remember what you had for food at your wedding because I don't. I even went through and looked at pictures. I remember the cake though! I'll throw some pics up on the twochocolatecakes.com site so you can see it. It was spectacular.  Anyway, in this episode I talk about how invasive weeds in my neglected garden are a heavy-handed metaphor that I didn't even...

The Dadiversary So 10 years ago today my father parted this mortal coil and it is a much bigger story than what you get today but I like to mark the day, and today, I marked it with you and as such, you're getting it a day early. I'll put a few pics up on the twochocolatecakes.com site about that 10 year journey to get here. Recording notes: I am recording this on the actual anniversary, f...

What I was doing 3 years ago So, once upon a time, before the great sickness, I loved to travel...  May 21

Confessions from the Chocolate Closet: This was definitely not on the list of things to talk about. And it's a long one! Also, finally got some good strawberries at the Falls Church Farmers Market.  May 15, 2022

Where I talk about the saga of losing my health insurance, looking for strawberries and the women in my life who were not my mother who have been so influential in my development as a decent human.  AND I managed to get through the whole thing without coughing! (don't worry, I'm not sick, I just have seasonal asthma--but you know what helps? Nutty Fudge!)    If you want to support the podc...

So the ants are back and I couldn't find strawberries at the Farmers Market on Saturday.   You'll be hearing more about my arch nemesis THE ANTS this summer. If you are at all curious about the Farmers Markets--On Saturdays we go to the one in Warrenton VA (the most info for all these entities is on Facebook and while I have to use FB so you can just search for them) as well as the one in...

The one that is kinda loud and a little messy, a lot like my kitchen OMG what a week. AND IT ISN'T EVEN OVER YET. but the good news is that strawberries are right around the corner, like NEXT WEEK!!

Farmers Market and Spring Holidays, plus Jelly Beans! Spring Farmers Markets have reopened, jelly bean discussion, and why is Easter an ok holiday but Thanksgiving gives me anxiety?  What's growing in the greenhouse so far.  Also, here's the address if you want to send a recipe along or something for me to eat and review:   Jen Coleslaw/Two Chocolate Cakes 8665 Sudley Road #150 Manassas, V...

Our Digital Legacy: Now that our lives are all digital, what happens to them when we depart this mortal coil? Who goes through out gigabytes of photographs--if anyone? How do we leave our favorite recipes if they are all online? Also, Tell me that you have been eating Sumo Oranges!!!

The Zeppole Edition. In this episode, I pronounce zeppole at least three different ways, and crepes two different ways. I added a new calendar to the mix and really now I cannot be stopped. And I will apologize in advance for the squeaking noises--I talk with my hands even when I am recording and it makes things move imperceptibly in my recording studio (ie., on top of a laptop box, in the bedroom...

SideCar! Welcome to SideCar, the Two Chocolate Cakes side hustle podcast that I promise is more cheerful than the memoir. If you like my Twitter feed about #FoodHolidays and pets and what I am growing in the garden, what’s going on at the Farmers Market, the occasional local politics rant, then you’ll like this!     I hope that if you want to talk about YOUR food holidays, and rituals around food,...