2012

Spiced Chocolate Chunk Zucchini Bread with Pistachios

September 24, 2012
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I’ve always been slightly suspicious of zucchini bread. Sure I see people wax poetically about the best zucchini bread recipes ever, the marvels of zucchini muffins and how fabulous zucchini loaves are, but I look at these blogs posts and tweets with a squinted sideways eye glare, unsure what the love is all about. I [...]

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Buttermilk Biscuit Muffins with Ginger Plum Jam and my final day in Ohio Amish Country at Murphin Ridge Inn

September 10, 2012
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A good buttermilk biscuit is a thing of beauty, light, flaky and buttery. Add a spoonful of homemade ginger plum jam and you’ve got a country breakfast on a plate. Of course, some people seem super scared of making biscuits, thinking they’ll make them hard, tough or misshapen. Thankfully there is an easy solutions to [...]

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Gluten Free Maple Oat and Dried Cherry Shortbread Cookies

September 3, 2012
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I started to write a post about AJ’s love of oatmeal for breakfast. I wanted to write about because I made these Gluten Free Maple Oat and Dried Cherry Shortbread cookies based on a recipe from The Sprouted Kitchen Cookbook. But as I wrote the post, I realized I had single handedly written the most [...]

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Sugar Roasted Peach & Blueberry Bacon Infused Buckle and SF Chefs 2012

August 27, 2012
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“Could I have one of those lanyards that allows me to hang my wine glass from my neck?” I politely asked the woman who was handing them out. I asked this, not because I was a complete lush, but rather because I was at the SF Chef’s Grand Tasting Tent and having BOTH hands free [...]

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Apricot Amaretti Cookies (naturally gluten free) and dinner at Outstanding in the Field

August 20, 2012
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I wish I had some sort of heartwarming Saveur-esque story to tell about discovering amaretti cookies in an out of the way, tiny Northern Italian village and how it changed my life. In an alternate universe I backpacked without a care or plan through Europe in my post-collegiate youth, taking the Eurorail and eating frugally. [...]

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Quinoa Goat Milk Belgian Waffles with Double Cherry Maple Syrup and a visit to Redwood Hills Farm

August 13, 2012
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It seemed the ultimate bait and switch for my friend Amy. She saw my Instagram picture of a Belgian style waffle and immediately thought “THAT LOOKS SO GOOD” but then she read the caption. “Quinoa Goat Milk Belgian Waffle with Double Cherry Maple Syrup” and immediately was horrified. Amy was not having any of those [...]

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Blueberry Rhubarb Sour Cream Pie and Jenny & Cary’s Wedding on a Farm

August 6, 2012
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The buffet table of pies is spread out before me, a veritable selection of peach, blueberry, blackberry and apple pies. The sort of selection that makes you want to take one of each, but really you can’t be that greedy as other people are behind you, waiting for their own slice. I opted for a [...]

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Backyard Mixed Black and Green Gage Plum Tart with White Wine Custard and a visit to my hometown of St. Louis, Missouri

July 30, 2012
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Most people think of plums as these golf-ball sized midnight purple stone fruit with bright red sweet flesh and tart skin. But, at least until I was 5, Green Gage plums were what I knew. Growing up in St. Louis, in a suburban house, our backyard had a green gage plum tree and I loved [...]

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On vacation…

July 23, 2012
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Hello friends! Currently I am on a much needed vacation with my partner AJ, hiking and camping and doing general sightseeing stuff at Yosemite National Park and Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Park, so there’s no blog post or recipe for this week. But come back next week! Hope you all are having a great [...]

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Sweet Cherry, Black Plum and Yellow Peach Cobbler and visiting AJ’s family in Indiana

July 16, 2012
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There’s something comforting and downhome about cobbler. Soft buttery biscuits floating atop thickened, just barely sweetened, summertime stone fruit like sweet cherries, black plums and super ripe peaches. It’s pretty much a crowd pleaser dessert and it’s what I turned to when AJ volunteered me to make a dessert for his family get together in [...]

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