salted oatmeal white chocolate cookies of doom

Do not make these cookies. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. I made these last night in a serious tactical error. Unless my normal stress baking circumstances, I was actually having a really good day and wanted to celebrate with some baked goods. It wasn’t time for dinner yet, so I decided that cookies would […]

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simple sauteed kale

While reorganizing my categories a bit (tags are sort of useless with this layout, so I am gradually switching to more specific category listings) I noticed that I post a lot of desserts and bread. While I am a huge fan of both desserts and bread, that is not all that we eat. That’s what […]

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heuvos rancheros, breakfast of champions

This morning was an early one for me — I was up at 6:00am to take my cousin to the airport. She flew in Wednesday and then headed back to Chicago today. We’re less than a year apart and spent a lot of time together growing up, but had sort of lost touch other than […]

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rainy day CSA

The winter rains are back this week, which is always good and bad. We’re in a pretty bad drought, so the rain is wonderful for that; the landscape brightens up even after just a day of rain. The winds, though, combined with the wet ground, have blown over a number of trees, many on to […]

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orange chocolate chip muffins to go

Normally I don’t make muffins. Muffins are one of those in-between foods: not a bread roll, not a cupcake. I really like cake. I really like bread. I don’t really like muffins. However, my dad and a friend just drove the rest of my earthly possessions from Minnesota to Southern California. When discussing dates and […]

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the best caramel corn ever

A few years ago as a Valentine’s Day gift for my husband, I got him “bottomless popcorn-and-a-movie” (a Netflix subscription, an air popper, and two bags of popcorn kernels). It was a fun idea, I thought, until I realized that my husband loves really terrible movies. Really. Terrible. It was about three days later that […]

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links: food for thought

A few things I might make, a few things that made me think. Butterscotch Pudding from Shuna Fish Lydon (also responsible for that naughty salted brown butter caramel cake) Chess Pie and a history lesson from Gherkins & Tomatoes Spicy Caramel Popcorn from Smitten Kitchen Tips for Holey Bread from Culinate (Kimberly, this might help […]

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english muffins

English muffins, I owe you an apology. In my previous experiences, I found you lacking — dry, tasteless, chewy. However, I was wrong to blame you, the poor, innocent muffin, for these failings. Instead, I should have placed blame where it belongs: the pre-packaged tasteless pucks that call themselves English muffins. They have sullied your […]

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light wheat flatbread wraps with bbq tempeh and red cabbage slaw

My crisper drawer is overflowing with cabbage. Three CSA shares in a row contained cabbage. It’s not that I don’t like cabbage, it’s just not an ingredient I have used, and suddenly I had four heads of it staring at me. Taunting me. Daring me to use them. Since my husband’s response to any cabbage-related […]

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kitchen adventures: homemade lefse

My husband has issued a moratorium on new kitchen supplies. He says we can’t get anything else until we get more kitchen. He is no fun. But we struck a deal: if he let me get a potato ricer, I would make him lefse. Lefse, for those of you not raised in the Upper Midwest, […]

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