Recipes

lemon + greens + chicken spring pasta


I was so excited for St. Patrick’s Day that I published my { corned beef + hash } at the start of the month…weeks early. It was a premature post. What can I say? I was a little excited. Now I’m suffering from blog-posting-dysfunction. I just couldn’t get anything up last week. It was frustrating, to say the least. The entire…

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Dark Chocolate Tart Cherry Cookies


da bomb dark chocolate + tart cherry cookie { no really, this is it } I make these cookies often and as I said, I am constantly changing amounts because the cookie was almost there. It just needed a little more work, a little something…and then, it happened. Last weekend I had a bake-off with my daughter and I nailed…

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Quinoa Turkey Burgers


quinoa turkey burgers { shut up and eat } I was raised on an endless array of sayings that started with ‘shut up and eat’, lingered on ‘pull your head out of your ass’ and ended with: ‘go play on the freeway.’ This makes me giggle. To some, this could all seem a bit hostile. It was actually quite the…

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Salted Caramel Brown Butter Stacked Blondie-Brownies


Well, I’m done. I think I can put up the Closed – On Vacation sign and head to Kauai for a couple of weeks. When Saveur Magazine opened up their Blog Award nominations this week I wanted to search my photos for something that was really representative of the jazz hands I like to think I sprinkle around my food.…

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Corned Beef Hash


corned beef hash {it’s a two-fer } I like meat. I don’t think that’s a secret. This little beauty happens to be one of my most favorite meat-centric meals of the year. It’s lingering right next to Thanksgiving turkey and flirting with Easter ham. I don’t quite understand why this is happening just once a year, do you? We need to work…

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