Happy Thankgiving!

November 22, 2012
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I’ll be back on Monday with more stories, recipes and such. In the meanwhile, Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I’m incredibly grateful that you all stop by to read my ramblings…

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Pumpkin White Chocolate Vanilla Swirl Cheesecake Bars

November 19, 2012
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“So…do you have any holiday recipes up? Because I have the best pumpkin pie recipe!” said the volunteer at the San Francisco and Marin Food Bank that I was photographing for my most recent Photo Essay. I sighed internally. This is always the problem with having a food blog. Everyone expects you to [...]

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Photo Essay: San Francisco and Marin Food Bank

November 15, 2012
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At first glance it looks like a big box store, like Costco or Sam’s Club, filled with industrial size boxes and crates of food and produce. But the warehouse for the San Francisco and Marin Food Bank isn’t anything like those giants. The Food Bank exists to help fill the need of those in our [...]

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Chocolate Rolled Cake with Brown Sugar Buttercream and Pistachios for my partner AJ’s 40th Birthday

November 12, 2012
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“I dunno, when I eat a cake, I usually like it fresh, not old or vintage” quipped AJ as I unwrapped a review copy of Vintage Cakes by Julie Richardson that Ten Speed Press had sent me. I mentally rolled my eyes, but really I found AJ’s bad jokes to be endearing. After all, he [...]

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Photo Essay: New York City (Support for Sandy)

November 8, 2012
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I rarely tell people this but I once had aspirations to move to New York. It was back in college, when all my friends were moving to New York and, obviously, I chose San Francisco instead. I have no regrets about my move here, and most of my friends who used to live in New [...]

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Photo Essay: Taste of Hawaii 2011

November 2, 2012
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About a year ago, I was invited to a lovely event to promote the Taste Of Hawaii Tour. Sadly I never got around to posting about it, but I’ll be honest when I tell you that I don’t think Hawaii needs any promotion. I spent the entire month of July 2011 on Maui and despite [...]

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Maple Peanut Nougat Chocolate Clusters, an unprocessed treat.

October 31, 2012
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Hey there! See those fantastic candies up there? Those are my Maple Peanut Nougat Chocolate Clusters that I made for my friend Andrew over at Eating Rules, specifically for his October Unprocessed challenge. Say What?!!? Yep, those candies are totally made with unprocessed ingredients. No refined sugars or flours. Totally naturally gluten free. I KNOW! [...]

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How Life Got in the Way…

October 29, 2012
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I had a really awesome Halloween post to write about. I was super excited and had planned out my week schedule to work on it this past weekend. The post, not to hype it up, was brilliant, near genius even. But, like most things that seemed to be happening lately, life got in the way. [...]

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Photo Essay: 3rd Annual Scarecrow Competition, Solvang, California

October 25, 2012
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It’s the sort of quaint, cute little town that shows up on television shows, you know the kind that has a warm and loving, though slightly dysfunctional family at the center of the drama. I was in Solvang, California because my partner AJ, for some utterly ridiculous reason, had decided to ride a bike for [...]

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Salted Vanilla Bean White Chocolate Multigrain Cookie and Folsom Street Fair 2012

October 22, 2012
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In my head, the end of summer in San Francisco is the end of September. Not because the weather starts to cool off (it hasn’t, if anything October tends to be just as warm as September) or the leaves are starting to change (San Francisco has very few deciduous trees). No, it’s because the summer [...]

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