From the monthly archives:

November 2009

Peanut Butter Blondies with Milk Chocolate Frosting

November 29, 2009

Pin it In my kitchen this past week I’ve managed to burn my Thanksgiving brussels sprouts, make a bum batch of chocolate brownies, crack my favorite coffee mug and somehow spill a half bottle of red wine under…UNDER my refrigerator. Additionally, since my kitchen seems to be a vortex of ill fate, I’ve refused to [...]

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Whole Lotta Etsy

November 26, 2009

Pin it I made you Sweet Potato Cookies with leftover mashed sweet potato my Dad’s infamous pie. I mixed up the dough. I portioned out little walnut size balls. I popped them on the baking sheet and into the oven. Then I sat down and made a terrible mistake. Good things did not happen. Not [...]

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Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins

November 23, 2009

Pin it In the event of some sort of big fat natural disaster in California, I may be up a creek without a paddle. Sure, I’ve got the canned tuna, the emergency gallons of water and a few flashlights with dying batteries. I’ve got the walking shoes, a space blanket and pepper spray… you need [...]

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Dad’s Perfect Sweet Potato Pie

November 20, 2009

Pin it I have a relationship with this pie. That’s normal, right? The smell of this pie takes me back to the days six year old me would run screaming through our lime green, hallway shaped kitchen in anticipation of pie and ice cream and the imminent holiday festivities such a dessert suggested. My Dad [...]

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In An Envelope…

November 17, 2009

Pin it Here’s a fun fact: my Mom is a scrapbooker. She’s a serious scrapbooker. She’s got the paper cutters, the corner choppers, the fancy albums and colorful background paper… there are stickers…. so so many stickers. She’s for real. Scrapbooking is the new rubber stamping. Remember the rubber stamp craze!? Yea, we’ve moved on. [...]

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FoodBuzzed

November 14, 2009

Pin it I went to the Foodbuzz Festival in San Francisco last weekend, and all I got were these silly photo booth pictures with my dear friend Tracy of Shutterbean. Ok…. that’s entirely untrue. I walked away from the Foodbuzz Festival with more kitchen gear than I could carry, pockets full of fellow [...]

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Creamy Tomato Soup

November 13, 2009

Pin it This big old bowl of tomatoes and cream is the best thing to ever come out of my kitchen. So good. So right. I’m thinking of retiring. I’m thinking of hanging up the apron strings and ending on a high note. You know, like Seinfeld did in the 90′s. But it’s just tomato [...]

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Brown Rice Rice Pudding

November 11, 2009

Pin it or should I just call it Brown Rice Pudding? When I was a little one, I remember lulling myself to sleep by listing off in my brain all of the things that I might like to find in heaven should I find myself there. I started off with important things like: I’d like [...]

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My Favorite Fall Recipes

November 8, 2009

Pin it Autumn is settling in. Autumn has settled in, and here I am ready to accept it. I’m also ready to accept the fact that my days in the kitchen are about to dramatically increase (if you can believe that) as my cravings for apple crisp (lovelovelovelovelovelovelove), pumpkin cookies and cranberry treats become harder [...]

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Vegan Pumpkin Walnut Bread

November 6, 2009

Pin it I’ve got a guilty conscience. Here’s a little peek inside: Dear Coworker David, Tonight when you were detailing the twenty one shots you had for your twenty first birthday, I stopped listening at about shot number four… the Raging Bull I think you said. How do you remember all twenty one shots after [...]

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I love Minted. Minted.com totally loves you.

November 5, 2009

Pin it I have really great news friends! Number One: I had chicken and waffles for dinner last night. Hot dang! Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles… you were great news for my belly. Number Two: Remember a few days ago when I was telling you how lovely the people at Minted.com are? Turns [...]

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Custom Holiday Card Giveaway!

November 2, 2009

Pin it Here we are, staring November right in the eye. Am I the only one giving November dirty looks? I mean seriously November… how did you sneak up on me like this? Did you just trample over September and October to rub your impending holiday spirit in my face? I’m not sure I’m ready [...]

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