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Spinach Feta Blood Orange Salad

January 2, 2012

My grandmother used to have a house dress, house hair, and house shoes.  She made no apologies for boiling her fresh vegetables half way to kingdom come.  She sat with her Bible at every spare moment. I… well, I have a house sweater.  It’s big and grey with floppy sleeves and giant buttons.  It’s just [...]

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The Simple Lunch

December 15, 2011

The Simple Lunch is for days when: maybe you’re nervous and possibly overwhelmed. you’ve considered dipping your morning muffin in good olive oil. you want to remember the days when you highlighted your hair with lemon juice and sunlight. you need to sprinkle salt on your lunch aaaannnddd over your shoulder. you want day wine… [...]

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Avocado and Edamame Salad

September 28, 2011

You know what’s not a good idea?  Shopping for jeans after an ‘eat weekend’. Don’t act like you don’t know what an ‘eat weekend’ is.  Don’t act like you haven’t ever eaten nothing but spaghetti and meat balls, doughnuts, onion rings, and mango margaritas for an entire weekend.   Surely I’m not the only one. [...]

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Cold Avocado Soup with sweet corn and bacon

August 18, 2011

I know what you’re craving.  I know what you’ve got on your mind.  I know juuuuust the thing you need. Cold.  Green.  Soup. Sexy right?  Just the thing you’ve been yearning for?  The answer to all of your burning questions?  The great treasure? Wait…. no!? Cold green soup isn’t your thing?  Come on…. let me [...]

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Avocado Orange Salad

June 5, 2011

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve had for dinner? Tonight I had: Mung beans tossed in butter, salt, and pepper.  Mung beans.  Yea… not ideal. Frozen corn, made unfrozen in boiling water… tossed with butter, salt, and pepper. A flour tortilla… while standing over my desk, looking glossy-eyed at my massive to-do list. A sprig of [...]

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How to Roast Garlic

February 3, 2011

If feeling: lonely, bored, restless, hungry, smell deprived, sleep deprived, cold, greedy, kooky, crazy, cabin fevery, sun deprived, snow deprived, sullen, extraordinary, sluggish or spicy… Might I suggest turning up the oven and roasting a bulb of garlic?

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Avocado Pound Cake

March 2, 2010

t I’d really like to conjure up some useful information for you.  That would be nice, right?  I could tell you all about avocados.  Where they came from.  What a lovely shade of green they are.  Why they’re so expensive at the grocery store… you know, things like that. But you didn’t come here for [...]

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Vegan Chocolate Avocado Cake

July 15, 2009

Ok… first of all, stop looking at me like that. Yea, I can see that crazy look on your face.  But it’s me.  The same person that brought you amazing Cream Cheese Cinnamon Rolls and Perfect Lemon Pound Cake. We trust each other.  We have an understanding.  Just go with me on this. Something about [...]

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