{recipe} Spiced Peach and Fig Caramel Cake
Tomorrow I’m heading up to British Columbia for one last week of summer vacation. I haven’t been since I was ten years old so I’m pretty excited about it. Before I go, I wanted...
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{recipe} Raspberry Reposado Margaritas
After my recent success with blueberry mojitos, I decided to try something in the same vein and made these raspberry margaritas. Swoon. Get yourself some fresh raspberries and bust out the cocktail shaker! I...
{travelogue} Favorite Unique and Cheap Oahu Eats
You probably think of Oahu and your mind goes somewhere like this: It’s a great place to visit – with sparkling white sand, clear blue water, peaks to hike, and palm trees swaying in...
{recipe} Three Cheese Zucchini Frittata
Whenever I cook for vegetarians, I sometimes struggle to figure out what to make that will be a filling, satisfying meal. Lately, I’ve been making this frittata a whole bunch, and not even missing...
{make this} Blueberry Mojitos from Eat, Live, Run
I don’t like blueberries so I can’t explain how I came home from the store with a huge container of them, but I definitely wasn’t going to eat them raw so I figured my...
{recipe} Spiced Maple Peach Ice Cream
I’ve mentioned previously how much it pains me to waste fruit, even when it’s well past the point of eating. With the last of the very overripe and mushy peaches I put together a...
{recipe} Summer Chicken Tacos with Plums, Avocados, and Sweet Corn
My Dad grows a lot of fruits and vegetables in his Sonoma County garden, and has a lovely fruit orchard. Around this time of year the branches are so laden with fruit that they...
{recipe} Double Vanilla Peach-Berry Galette
Recently a friend asked me for a fruit galette recipe. Did I have one? Well, no. I usually wing it on galettes because to me that is the nature of the thing, casual and...
{travelogue} Seven Things You Should Eat in Amsterdam
Ah, Amsterdam. Perhaps you’ve come because the canals are picturesque, the folks whizzing by on bicycles are exhilirating, the museums are wondrous, and the design stores delightful… or maybe you just like drugs? Or...
{recipe} Millionaire’s Chocolate Truffle Torte
This is an old family favorite recipe, and with good reason. It’s not very hard to make, it doesn’t have too many ingredients, and it tastes like a million bucks. Hence the fancy name!...
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