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Coconut!

February 5, 2012

I like coconut quite a lot. I love coconut. It’s important to me. It’s so important that this is the perfect time and place to expound my love in link form. Real Talk: I spent the morning in the kitchen with a new coconut recipe that bonkers FAILED. I’ll get coconut, hazelnut, and chocolate together [...]

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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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Brown Butter Toasted Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies

April 11, 2011

I think what I need is someone to catch a grenade for me. … perhaps someone to throw their hand on a blade for me. Someone to jump in front of a train for me? Wait. What? Clearly I have a problem. I can not stop listening to this silly song. … and now I [...]

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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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Tres Leches Cake

April 27, 2010

Here’s the thing about love…. allow me to speak as an authority on the subject for a moment. The thing about love is this: you have to fall into it with everything. Arms flailing, smiling like a maniac, giddy beyond belief, with all of who you are. You have to go big. You have to [...]

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Coconut Pineapple Vegan Banana Bread

April 20, 2010

Want to know what’s in my fridge? A whole lot of ’what the heck am I going to do with that’? Maraschino cherries. Basil pesto. Expired buttermilk. Kale… lots of kale. A bottle with less that a tablespoon of maple syrup and carrot juice. It’s a glamorous life I lead. Totally. You should be thankful I [...]

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Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Dulce de Leche Buttercream

March 22, 2009

This morning I stood under a blossoming orange tree that hummed with honey bees. I found my way under this tree after a walk through my neighborhood on one of those mornings that couldn’t decide if it wanted to laugh or cry. The sidewalk showed evidence of midnight rain. The smell of rain on asphault… [...]

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Cake Mix Couture?

February 20, 2008

I think I’m supposed to hate cake mix. I think, once you get a chef’s coat, you are supposed to turn you nose up at all things packaged, pre-mixed, and all around too good to be true. Well the truth is, I don’t hate cake mix, or at least I don’t hate it as much [...]

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Coconut! Cardamom?

January 30, 2008

I had a food fantasy yesterday, in the middle of my Monday workday. My fantasy involved four things: me, my uber comfy Santa pajamas, a bowl of made-by-me ice cream, and my electric blanket. I fantasized all the way home and skipped dinner to get my ice cream going. I had all the fixins for [...]

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Pink Hawaii

January 14, 2008

I was recently asked to create a Hawaiian themed cake for a girls first birthday. Children’s theme cakes usually run along a spectrum: from Sesame Street designs to Yo GabbaGabba characters. I somehow can never find my creative voice in tracing an Elmo onto a cake. It’s just not my style. Imagine my excitement in [...]

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