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Healthy Buckeye Balls

Posted on November 30, 2018 healthy buckeye balls

We’ve got one more holiday gift recipe for you before we launch into December!  We apologize for the brief hiatus from posting.  Strudel and I have been enjoying this blog for 8 years and it was time to do a … Continue reading →

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2017 Holiday Gift Ideas

Posted on December 17, 2017

It’s winter holiday time which means that (as the good bloggers we are), we start compiling the 2017 Holiday Gift Ideas list!   I made this list for two reasons:   I love a good recommendation from a real person. … Continue reading →

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Spiced Apple Pie Filling

Posted on November 6, 2016

 Happy Daylight Saving time! And a very happy November to you, as well. Here in Seattle, we’ve far-too-easily stepped into fall; we didn’t get much of a summer, so fall actually feels a little more palatable – now, my expectations … Continue reading →

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Holiday Cheesy Flaky Rolls

Posted on December 5, 2013

Have you heard of Tartine Bakery?  No?  Maybe Chad Robertson?  As fast as you can, go out and buy one of Chad Robertson’s books! Really, GO NOW! I have Tartine Bread and it has transformed how I bake bread!  Tartine’s owner … Continue reading →

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Irish Soda Bread

Posted on March 10, 2012

With St. Patrick’s Day coming up next weekend, I figured we’d better get to the baking.   I hadn’t had Irish Soda Bread in years – I remembered it being dense and dry – until recently, when a local shop … Continue reading →

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Homemade Holiday Gifts

Posted on December 18, 2011

  I’m a horribly uncreative person (btw, I just googled “uncreative” to make sure it’s a real word, and the definition is “not being or productive of something fresh and unusual”… sounds harsh, right?). I desperately want to original, to … Continue reading →

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Speculaas

Posted on December 8, 2011

  What would the holidays be without this dutch delight, a slightly spicy shortbread cookie, traditionally served before the St. Nicholas’ feast?  

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Thanksgiving in San Diego

Posted on November 27, 2011

  HAPPY (belated) THANKSGIVING!   Early this morning, I left lovely southern California and flew home to a very rainy Seattle. I had SUCH a great vacation with my family (Brandon had to stay home to work, so I traveled … Continue reading →

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