From the monthly archives:

April 2011

Gluten-Free Strawberry Cupcakes and a giveaway!

April 29, 2011

Pin it Baby steps. I need to take baby steps when it comes to gluten-free baking. Maybe the flours confuse me.  Maybe I have no idea what guar gum is.  Maybe arrowroot is intimidating. … It’s just that I know exactly what all-purpose flour is going to do when I combined it with baking soda [...]

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Carrot Apple Ginger Soup

April 27, 2011

Pin it Sometimes I just want to eat a color. …Does that make sense?  Does that ever happen in your brain? Usually I want to eat things that are green (kale), milky (coffee), made of booze, made of chocolate, or made of pie. For some reason, yesterday I wanted something orange and spicy. I made [...]

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Let me be honest…

April 25, 2011

Pin it I’ve been thinking all day about what I’d write tonight. Should I write about the peacock I saw this weekend?  Should I tell you about how I was afraid of the peacock until I remembered that it is ostriches that are sometimes mean and not peacocks?  Yea… I’m smart.  Ostriches spit right?  No [...]

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Chicken Pot Pie with Cream Cheese and Chive Biscuits

April 21, 2011

Pin it Hello Dream Boy, If I didn’t know any better, I’d think I dreamt you up.  Biscuits and cream and veggies and chicken.  I must must must have dreamt you up, pulled you in the oven, and put you right in my life. I’m going to keep you around Dream Boy.  I’ll get those [...]

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Homemade Pistachio Pudding

April 18, 2011

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Hot Cross Biscuits

April 15, 2011

Pin it It’s that time of year. It’s time to put a marshmallow Peep in your hat. It’s time to pipe a cross on your biscuit. It’s time to eat way way way too many white chocolate Easter bunnies. Or maybe you gave up sugar for Lent… in which case… I’m sorry to torture you [...]

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Brown Butter Toasted Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies

April 11, 2011

Pin it I think what I need is someone to catch a grenade for me. … perhaps someone to throw their hand on a blade for me. Someone to jump in front of a train for me? Wait.  What?  Clearly I have a problem.  I can not stop listening to this silly song. … and [...]

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Breakfast Quinoa with toasted coconut, almonds, and fresh mango

April 11, 2011

Pin it Good morning! I made us breakfast. There’s not an ounce of butter in it.  Clearly I’m not feeling myself. Grains and applesauce and fruit and nuts.  Delicious.  Wholesome.  True. We’ll eat it and feel utterly contented.  Then we’ll have butter for lunch.  Let’s be real.

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Strawberry Pineapple Crumble

April 8, 2011

Pin it .Sigh It’s a good thing you’re not here.  You.  You specifically.  It’s a good thing you’re not here right now. If you were here, you’d be witness to some truly horrific sweatpants choices.  You’d have to see my raccoon face, from furiously rubbing my eyes with mascara on.   I just yelled at [...]

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Vegan Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies

April 6, 2011

Pin it Two things are unacceptable:  I keep forgetting to buy butter, and there’s a spider on my ceiling that my cat can’t reach. Two solutions have presented themselves:  Make vegan cookies, and construct some sort of winged apparatus to send my cat into flight, thus into spider hunting range. So far, I’ve got the [...]

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Buns. Biscuits. Brownies.

April 3, 2011

Pin it ooh friends. Some of you were a little peeved that I live in a world where I can drink milkshakes and wear shortshorts in early April.  I live in Southern California… we don’t have real winter… or spring, or fall.  We have real summers.  Does that count? Wait… I’m not making this apology [...]

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