{feliz navidad} Epic Gingerbread Taqueria
I can’t believe this is the fifth crazy gingerbread project I’ve made, but here we are – and I think number five turned out pretty great despite a skeleton crew working on it. So without...
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{recipe} Cheesy Bacon Breakfast Strata
Strata is a breakfast casserole, and it has become my go-to Sunday breakfast or brunch recipe for a crowd: it’s easy, customizable, and you make it the night before so there is no work...
{recipe} Easy Homemade Cronuts with Chocolate Caramel Glaze
A few months ago I posted about how to make easy homemade cronuts with an orange-vanilla glaze. I tried them again with a chocolate caramel glaze that tastes a little bit like a Tootsie...
{how to} How To Make Lavender Salt – And 8 Suggestions For How to Use It
We grow an outrageous amount of lavender in our garden, and aside from making lavender caramel sauce from time to time, I have mostly left the lavender flowers to the bees. But this year...
{recipe} Oven-Baked Sesame Ginger French Fries (Plus 5 Tips for Making Great Fries in the Oven)
Do you ever look around your kitchen and think “what the heck am I going to feed this kid/myself?” That happens a lot around here; somehow, despite the overwhelming feeling that I’m wasting like...
{recipe} Corn on the Cob with Chipotle Lime Butter
The corn we’ve been getting here in Northern California has been so good that yesterday my husband asked if, during corn season, it would be OK to have corn every night. I’m heading off to Colorado...
{recipe + recycling} Compost Bucket Berry Crisp: The Best Berry Crisp Starts with the Leftover Dregs of Another Crisp
What do you do when you have a bit of soggy, leftover fruit crisp or cobbler, but need to bring a new fruit crisp to a party? Why, you mix it all together and get a...
{how to} Top Ten Diet Hacks I Use Almost Every Day to Eat Healthier – While Still Eating Exactly What I Want
I think this blog could easily be rechristened “The Healthy Hedonist,” because at heart, I am equally interested in eating the best things I can possibly get in my mouth AND maintaining a healthy...
{how to} Easy Homemade Cronuts
Have you heard about the cronut craze that’s sweeping the nation? Here’s the story in a nutshell: some guy in New York took the fried, glazed goodness of a donut and introduced it to...
{recipe} Homemade Harissa
Harissa is a spicy North African sauce or paste made from dried chilis, toasted spices, garlic, and oil. In Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya, people use harissa like mustard or ketchup–it goes on many,...
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