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Chocolate Coconut Almond Scones

October 10, 2011

14 of the 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 thoughts going through my brainscape: –  I’m 30.  I can’t shop at Forever 21.  First of all, I’m a Large…. and the shorts are still waay too tiny.  Secondly, I look much better in Anthropologie clothes. –  I’m worth it. –  Yea.  So I just stress-ate a bag of potato chips. [...]

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Breakfast Quinoa with toasted coconut, almonds, and fresh mango

April 11, 2011

Good morning! I made us breakfast. There’s not an ounce of butter in it.  Clearly I’m not feeling myself. Grains and applesauce and fruit and nuts.  Delicious.  Wholesome.  True. We’ll eat it and feel utterly contented.  Then we’ll have butter for lunch.  Let’s be real.

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Gluten-Dairy-Cane Sugar-Free Homemade Granola

November 17, 2010

Something pretty remarkable happened.  I stepped in my kitchen and baked something without flour… without milk or eggs or butter… and without sugar. I was wide-eyed.  I was nervous.  This sort of thing is way out of my sugar/butter/flour comfort zone. It turns out… I might have a new comfort zone. … A new, delicious [...]

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Hot Fudge Sundae Cupcakes

January 18, 2010

Let’s just go ahead and let the Hot Fudge Sundae Cupcakes do the talking… Yes.  I am thoroughly satisfied with myself.

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Sweet and Spicy Almonds

May 1, 2009

Here’s a fun thing to do!  Take a few minutes to close your eyes and imagine yourself as an old person.  I’m not talking about late sixties.  That’s not old yet.  I’m talking about great great grandmother old.. pushing the mid-nineties. Sounds crazy?  Why would you spend time picturing white hair in bobby pins, shuffling [...]

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Almond Banana Bread

December 1, 2008

I remember when I was a kid, I used to entice my little sister into the kitchen to cook with me. That sounds sweet and cozy, right? Well… I had slightly more selfish intentions. I had plans for my sister once we hit the kitchen: I would do all the fun stuff like measuring out [...]

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