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Outrageous Baking: Gluten-Free Applesauce Cake Review + Giveaway

March 16, 2012
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Winner announced! Congrats, Manda – entry #8! I have this belief that the preference for either cooking or baking over the other one is an indication of personality. For instance, the best bakers I know are typically Type A, Control Freak types who looooooove doing things with perfection and precision. I envy their attention to [...]

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Poached Eggs with Kale & Red Peppers

February 14, 2012
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Is there anything better than the most delicious meal of your life that happens to leave you feeling like you can take on the world, rather than bloaty and sluggish and desperate for a food-coma-induced nap? There isn’t, actually, and while I wouldn’t go as far as to say that this recipe is that meal, [...]

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Sweet & Spicy Deviled Eggs + Facebook Contest

December 7, 2011
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One of the best things about the holiday season is the food, right? Right. There are so many traditions around Thanksgiving feasts, holiday parties, Christmas breakfast, and winter cocktails. I’ve got my favorites for each of those categories, but nothing’s quite as awesome as holiday party appetizers, amiright? I’d have to say that holiday party [...]

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Recipe | Roasted Pumpkin Soup

November 9, 2011
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It started with this. This is a Cinderella Pumpkin Soup, and I devoured politely sampled this Cinderella Pumpkin Soup at Hotel 1000 in Seattle a couple of weeks ago. I was invited to attend their Vintimate Winemakers’ Dinner, which is an amazing pairing of a local winemaker’s wines (in this case, it was Upland Estates) [...]

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Spaghetti Squash Pizza Bake

October 18, 2011

Live the good life with these titles. I used to think squash (other than yellow/summer/zucchini squash) was intimidating. I mean this, I know what to do with. [via] Slice it, throw it in a skillet/saute pan, add some butter or oil, a little salt and pepper and call it a day. Maybe top it with [...]

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Green and Purple Monsters

August 4, 2011

I’ve been reading a lot of “healthy living” blogs lately, trying to find some new inspiration in recipes, watching these amazingly dedicated runners and triathletes set up training plans and run a whole bunch of races (since I’m training for my first 5k!). It’s been inspiring to not only get some new recipe ideas, but [...]

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Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

July 29, 2011
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I don’t do a lot of baking. I don’t have the patience for perfect measurements, dough that needs to rise, and I don’t even own an electric mixer. But sometimes, you realize it’s mid-summer, there’s strawberries everywhere and rhubarb everywhere, and your boyfriend – ever so sweetly – starts hinting (daily) that his favorite pie [...]

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Homemade Pizza

July 24, 2011

Chris made the most amazing honey-wheat crust. I made the pizza sauce from scratch. We topped the pizzas with fresh mozzarella, aged white cheddar, and fresh herbs. This is one of the best dinners ever. And yes, Chris finds a recipe online and props up the iPad in the kitchen when he cooks. I love [...]

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Juicing

July 11, 2011
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I remember the first time I had a raw fruit/veggie juice. It was at the Whole Foods in Boulder (before it closed down), and my friend Monica had just been CRAVING this particular juice from the juice bar that had a name like “Juice Goddess,” or “Veggie Diva,” or something like that. I watched as [...]

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Baked Eggs with Parmesan Kale and Cream

July 7, 2011

While I know the Internet is a wonderful and vast land of recipes and photos galore… I’m still a sucker for a good actual cookbook. Paper pages. Hard cover. Glossy photos. I could spend days in just the cookbook section of any bookstore or library. When I was last in Minnesota, Miranda (my sister) and [...]

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