Author: Jackie Pick

Jackie Pick is a former teacher and current writer living in the Chicago area. She is a contributing author to multiple anthologies, including Multiples Illuminated, So Glad They Told Me: Women Get Real about Motherhood, Here in the Middle, as well as the and the literary magazines The Sun and Selfish. She received Honorable Mention from the Mark Twain House and Museum for her entry in the Royal Nonesuch Humor Writing Competition. Jackie is a contributing writer at Humor Outcasts, and her essays have been featured on various online sites including McSweeney's, Belladonna Comedy, Mamalode, The HerStories Project, and Scary Mommy. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, Jackie is co-creator and co-writer of the award-winning short film Fixed Up, and a proud member of the 2017 Chicago cast of Listen To Your Mother.

Baking and Burning — August 1

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On Monday, we celebrated my mother’s birthday here at Casa Pickadilly.  The plan was to put together an easy fish meal (my mother has a very limited palate) and a light cake.

I managed to dry out poached fish, as I mentioned the other day.

Total, absolute fail.

An A+, however, to the Cake Doctor’s Orange Birthday Cake.  I didn’t do the orange syrup, because the book I have with the recipe didn’t mention it.  It doesn’t need it.  Just an absolutely gorgeous, delicious cake, especially when you don’t have the time or inclination to start from scratch.

Use Duncan Hines cake mix…it doesn’t have pudding in it.