quick apple tart

24 November 2010
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Are you pie crust challenged or those just looking for something a little different or lighter than a traditional pie?  This would look wonderful as an addition to your regular Thanksgiving desert options. This is the ticket. It is a perfect fall sweet. It takes just a few minutes to make and it is lighter [...]

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wordless wednesday

3 November 2010
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a view from our lovely room in the Hotel Adagio, San Francisco

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waldorf salad meets 2010

26 September 2010
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It is hard to believe that a salad that was made famous by the Waldorf Hotel Restaurant in the 1890′s, now the infamous Waldorf Astoria, has turned into a ho-hum potluck classic.  I have a new version here that will relaunch this into your repertoire.  This is a feel good salad that tingles with bright [...]

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Bob’s Big Boy, Burbank, California

27 August 2010
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I am feeling a little guilty since today is my baby’s 11th birthday and I am on my way to IFBC in Seattle. It is bad enough that he started middle school 3 days ago and thinks that he it all grown up, sometimes, but now I’m going to miss his birthday.  Dad was in [...]

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wild strawberry ice (cream) recipe

25 August 2010
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As a child I was the weird one, I did not like ice cream. If it was take it or leave it, I usually left it. I tended to prefer sherbet over it’s creamier, heavier cousin.  The only times that I remember getting an option was at Grandma’s house. I hated going to grandma’s as [...]

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baby new potato salad with artisan bacon

14 July 2010
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You cannot get more local than your backyard.  There is nothing better than the vegetables that you dig out of your own dirt.  The farmer’s market finds are close, but till fall shy of the flavor of something that you’ve grown. It is amazing that there is anything growing in my backyard this year. The [...]

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super lemony poppyseed snack cake

1 July 2010
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If you are looking for the “perfect” make-ahead recipe for the long holiday weekend coming up I have just the thing for you. I made this cake on Tuesday and have left it on the counter, uncovered, for 2 days.  It is still moist, and better than the first day I made it.  Which might [...]

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warm-up spring soup

18 June 2010
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With late spring temps in the 40′s we are needing some comfort food, but this is so tasty I would eat it any day of the year.  I continue to ponder that it might be nice as a cold soup, think vichyssoise, the ubiquitous potato and leek soup served hot in winter and cold in [...]

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super size me

17 June 2010
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We have been having an unusually wet spring, but hey, summer is right around the corner. Things have to warm up, right?!  It was 45°F today and I had to turn the furnace on, which should make anyone cranky in June.  After having soccer camp rained out the boys wanted to watch a movie, and [...]

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plain jane chocolate chip cookies

3 June 2010
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comfort food deluxe. I was actually trying to recreate some cookies that I had like 30 years ago, give or take…  I remember, sometime in the 1970′s, eating a cookie, well really like a batch of cookies, that were like nothing I had tasted before.  My Aunt Toni made a batch of chocolate chip cookies [...]

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cry, the beloved country

3 June 2010
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Today was the memorial for a friend who was killed in a car accident outside of Pretoria, South Africa last Thursday.  This has been weighing heavy on my heart since I heard the news last Thursday.  Even after a week I have no idea what to say.  I feel so badly for Deon.  I cannot [...]

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