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Starbucks’ Iced Lemon Pound Cake
Lemon zest and juice makes all edible items brighter: hot tea, roasted vegetables, baked goods, alcohol, salad, yogurt. I challenge you — what does NOT taste better with lemon? While you ponder deep...
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Easy Breezy Tzatziki Dip
The bf and I are trying to eat a primarily Mediterranean diet, not for any particular health reason but that it’s good for ya and full of foods we both like. Yesterday we totally fell off the wagon...
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Sweet Bliss Spring Brunch Menu
Usually I wax poetic about edibles I’ve personally made. Not today. I attended a brunch where my only contributions consisted of Pepperidge Farm’s Milano cookies and a purple flowering plant for the...
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A Birthday Tradition
Sour Cream Chocolate Sheet Cake. Licking the frosting bowl was the best part! Growing up we had a family tradition on birthdays: The birthday person could choose ANY cake they wanted, and someone else...
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Friday Humor: Spelling
Spelling, it matters!Filed under: chocolate, edibles, humor, sweet
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Guest Post: Homemade Smoked Salmon
With the summer smoking season half way through, I thought it was a good time for another guest blog post on my latest adventure — this time about delicious, low, slow cooking. After diving into the...
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5 Minute ‘Pickles’
I sometimes whine about cooking when it’s hot, and I’m clearly not alone. In fact, Cooking Light ran a piece in their July issue about 5-minute sides along with all sorts of shortcuts to avoid the...
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My Crack Snack
It’s true that I wax poetic about sublime hummus and frosty pumpkin beer, savory thai and luscious dark chocolate (72% cacao!). But the one food that I absolutely cannot stop eating once start, the...
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Pumpkin Muffins
Fall brings out the pumpkin-lovers and pumpkin-haters. If I had my druthers, I’d mandate canned pumpkin as a year-round grocery store item. Until then, I’m hoarding. We had company staying with us this...
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Bangladeshi Pumpkin and Shrimp
As I’ve mentioned before, my book club pairs food themes with our reading materials. For October, we read Max Brooks’ World War Z in honor of Halloween, and since it’s an international tale, our...
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Coconut Curry Salmon
After rocking out a bear-sized portion of epic BBQ at the famous Salt Lick BBQ, I wanted some fish this week as a counterbalance. Who would have guessed that Kraft would have a great recipe for coconut...
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Homemade Oatmeal Creme Pies (Take 1)
I’ve decided – for no particular reason – that 2014 is the year of making oatmeal creme pies. I started with this recipe from Cooking Classy, and made a few minor tweaks as a newbie to this realm of...
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5 Things I Learned About Food This Week
In no particular order… 1. Switching to a low-carb diet results in brain fog (stupidity), flu-like symptoms of blarg, fatigue like mono, irritability and spending lots of time thinking about food....
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Pickled Peaches
I bought 12 peaches. One molded and attracted a hoard of fruit flies that made me nearly gag. I didn’t want to throw them all away (expensive!), so I stuck them in the freezer to bide my time and kill...
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Pumpkin ale cupcake with maple frosting and candied bacon
Rather than a wedding cake, we asked several friends to bake a dozen cupcakes for our reception. I cannot express how awesome they were! We had almond, hostess cakes, mocha, pumpkin chai, chocolate,...
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Eating as a New Mom
I’m a mom! My son arrived 7 weeks early and spent a month in the NICU. We brought him home a few days before Christmas and are riding the rollercoaster of parenthood. The little man loves to eat and...
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Move over, avocado toast! BRUCHETTA options are the new talk of the town. It’s a rareity to have brunch with a friend, and practically unheard of to have a 4-hour brunch with one of my dearest. So we...
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