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Buh-nana Bread(s)

September 6, 2011

Bananas should always be bread. It’s just what’s right. Like how grapes should always be wine… or jelly. I can’t handle eating a plain banana. I have to drown… completely drown it in peanut butter, or wrap it in white bread and drench it in honey. I just can’t handle it. I’ll tell you what [...]

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Simple Roasted Apricots with honey mascarpone

June 28, 2011

Everything is as sweet as dessert in the summertime. Living is totally easy: Morning warmth and sunshine. Just like dessert. Granola with berries and sweet coffee. Reminds me of dessert. Chicken salads and pink wine for lunch. Desserty. Peachy blue sunsets, popcorn for dinner, and roasted apricots for dessert. Gin and tonics. Totally dessert. Sleep. [...]

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All the Things You Made

December 26, 2010

Good Lord. I’m so full of food. I probably won’t eat again until 2012. But! Yesterday you attacked my comment section with the most lovely Christmas wishes and all sorts of excitement about the goodies coming out of your kitchen. You reached back into my archives, put on your baking gloves (duh) and got goin’ [...]

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Cinnamon: The Greatest Hits

October 8, 2010

Cinnamon. It’s a constant in my cupboard. Cinnamon is that spice that instantly makes baked goods feel extra warm and extra comforting. The smell from the oven? Pretty much perfect. It feels like Autumn is trying to sneak up on us. Cinnamon just makes sense these days. Let me show you some things I’ve shown [...]

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Brunch Date

August 27, 2010

You know that feeling…. When you’re on a brunch date, you arrive at a restaurant, and the hostess tells you that the wait is going to be 20 minutes… And you think aloud to your date…’ok, great… let’s take a quick stroll around the block’… and you two take a quick stroll around the block. [...]

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Peanut Butter Meets Chocolate

August 4, 2010

I went to a meeting yesterday… I went to one of those fancy LA-type meetings. Think: television executives, fancy open office, exposed brick walls, Apple computers, too cool for school/ultra hip staff… and me in last year’s twelve dollar Target sandals. Um….. It was intimidating. I sat up straight and hid my shoes. Know what [...]

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What to do with all that Buttermilk

April 7, 2010

If you’ve been around these parts long enough, you’ve probably noticed that I’m pretty fond of buttermilk. Buttermilk brings the tang, brings a tender texture… and is all around awesome in baking. But once you buy the carton for one recipe, what the heck are you supposed to do with the rest [...]

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Ode to my Box Grater

March 10, 2010

I was packing up my kitchen this afternoon and I got to thinking. I got to thinking about my box grater… which is totally weird. As if thinking at length about my box grater weren’t odd enough… I’m now going to shovel my box grater thoughts onto your lap. There’s butter. There’s cheese. There’s roots [...]

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Top 5 “I’m Totally Freaking Out Right Now” Recipes

February 19, 2010

I do this thing when I’m filled to the brim with tasks and opportunities and responsibilities and stresses…. I add more. I really just pile it on. I somehow think that adding new responsibilities and stresses will erase the ones I’ve already loaded on my shoulders. It’s illogical. It’s a terrible idea. It’s [...]

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Zucchini Pancakes

September 15, 2009

Is it just me, or are there butterflies everywhere? Maybe it’s butterfly hatching season…. that’s a technical term: butterfly hatching. Obviously. Exhibit A: On a particularly rough day at work, a butterfly just about the size of my hand fluttered around me showing off its black, yellow and red wings. Absolutely gorgeous. Exhibit B: Just [...]

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Say Hello to Summer!

May 22, 2009

This little bee sure is living large in my one pot spring garden! But enough about spring. Spring is so… um, last season? No… not exactly. Let’s talk about summer! What’s your favorite way to kick off summer? Me? My favorite way to greet summer is to have a rip roarin’ good time Memorial Day [...]

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Eat Food. You’ll Like It.

December 16, 2008

I feel like there’s food everywhere. Literally everywhere. Let’s see… it all started when someone sent a fairly innocent fruit basket. Then the neighbor dropped by with a pound of chocolate candy. Then I somehow thought it a good idea to whip up some fudge. Then there was the five course holiday party, and [...]

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Cranberry Coffee Cake

December 3, 2008

I feel like I’ve been haunted by the three bags of fresh cranberries I bought about a month ago. You’d think I’ve baked enough cranberry filled goodies to make these cranberries a thing of the past. Nope. Between the Banana Cranberry Bread, the All Purpose Cranberry Apple Cake and the Cranberry Sauce, how did I [...]

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Pumpkin Pie Bars

October 16, 2008

Pumpkin is upon us. It’s a fact friends. Deal with it. I went a little pumpkin crazy at the store this week. Something comes over me when the seasons change. Because I live in a city where the weather insists on staying virtually the same temperature all year round, and the palm trees know nothing [...]

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