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Apple Wedges in Cinnamon Red Hot Syrup

November 30, 2011

Here’s a great gift for the holidays. It gives pizazz to pork, adds a spicy kick to your ice cream, heck, you can happily spend an afternoon eating it straight from the jar. My kids do. Believe me. They do. I’m kinda pissed about that because I had to make a second, unexpected batch. I [...]

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An Inconvenient Food

November 18, 2011

You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients. – Julia Child Lately I’ve been cooking up a storm. There was a brief period of time when I was working out of an office, that I swear to you, I could not get it together in terms of [...]

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Easy Canned Applesauce Tutorial

November 17, 2011

Except for the fact that I would be losing out on the SEO factor, I would have titled this post: Easy Peazy Apple Squeezy. Because that’s a way cuter title, right? I used to be of the mind that there was really no need to can applesauce. Apples grow abundantly here in the Bay Area. [...]

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Tiny Prints Holiday Cards

November 16, 2011

Last week I was fortunate enough to be invited to a blogger luncheon with Tiny Prints – which was fantastic because: 1) I love Tiny Prints stationary. (Both of my kids’ birth announcements were Tiny Prints!) 2) I got to spend time with a group of women I adore. 3) Free food. Yeah! 4) A [...]

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Seasonal Food: Butternut Squash Lasagna with Creamy Bechamel Sauce

November 10, 2011

Because I’m tracking my budget for food during the month of November, I started the process of planning this week’s seasonal meal by first reviewing what I already had. I went through my cupboards/freezer/basement/etc. I had plenty to work with (how often do I waste simply by not starting here?). I settled on a butternut [...]

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How I Lost My Job and Gained My Sanity

November 9, 2011

Note from me: I rarely talk about the really important, personal stuff on my blog. That was a choice I made a long time ago. I really just want this to be about my food notes, things I wanted to keep track of and share. But, I’ve also realized there’s a value to sharing ourselves [...]

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How to Roast a Butternut Squash

November 7, 2011

I love love love winter squash. It’s all a part of the change to autumn – the colors of winter squash inspire me, be it the pale pumpkin orange of a butternut or the kabocha squash with its multi-colored green stripes and bright orange flesh. Their candy-like sweetness screams for autumn spices: cinnamon, nutmeg and [...]

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Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

October 31, 2011

So you spent the weekend carving mere pumpkin squash into festive jack-o-lanterns, ready to light the way to the sugary prize behind door number 1. And now the practical (and dare I say, fun…) side of your brain is like, “Wait! I’ve got all these seeds, and I can’t put them to waste!” And then [...]

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Canning Grape Juice (the simple way)

August 11, 2011

Earlier in the year, when the fruit trees were dormant, I hired a fruit tree expert to come and discuss my mini orchard with me, as well as prune my trees. I was given some bad news. Essentially I had annihilated my apple tree as well as my grapevine. I was told neither would produce very [...]

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Plum Pie Filling

August 2, 2011

I had the immense luck to come into entirely too many plums. And not just any plum….satsuma plums. You know when you’re at the Farmer’s Market and you see plums, and you’re like, “I hope those are the plums that are red inside”? And then you bite into it and it’s yellow inside. You’re not [...]

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