Hello Blogging World! I’m finally taking the leap into writing my stories, both from a food and recipe perspective, and from the perspective of my various life adventures. I always think to myself, hey, I …
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Making Bon Appetit’s Digestive Cookies
My parents lived in England for three years, and during our visits there for college and grad school breaks, we would partake in a sleeve of Digestive cookies as a delightful snack or as a …
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Burger Night with Home-Made Burger Buns!
We had quite the burger night on Sunday, complete with homemade hamburger buns, Tzatziki sauce, spicy pickle relish, oven fries, wedge salads, and of course, hamburger patties. We successfully found some ground beef after a …
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Recipe: Spicy Pickle Relish
This recipe was invented for our last burger night, and involved two things that we conveniently have in the fridge at all times – dill pickles and pickled jalapenos. This is a quick and easy …
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Recipe: Tomato Sauce from Scratch
In our preparation for the state of California to shut down, Chris and I went to Costco to stock up (okay, panic buy) on quite a few items to supply both of us on our …
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Recipe: Sunday French Toast
We made something this morning that I haven’t made since probably college (yes, I had a home-made French toast phase in college, didn’t you?). I had forgotten how simple it is to make French toast, …
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Recipe – Ramen Soup Broth
Two particular soup recipes have been catching my eye recently, Andy Baraghani’s I-Can’t-Believe-It’s-Vegetarian-Ramen and Amiel Stanek’s French Onion Beef Noodle Soup (click the links to access both recipes – both from Bon Appetit of course!). …
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Stocking the Fridge with Healthy Work from Home Snacks – Week 1
Greetings from my home office (which is also my kitchen table)! It’s officially been my first day of working from home, and I’m already officially bored. So, naturally I started doing some meal prep/snack prep …
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3.16.19 Garden Update
Spring is upon us, which means it’s time to start planting and planning for the summer. Over the weekend, we started a bunch of our seeds, including these varieties: Tomatoes: San Marzano Dakota Sport Crimson …
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Bakersfield City Guide: Visiting the Almond Flowers
Early spring is one of the best times of year to visit the San Joaquin Valley, because the entire valley is covered in pink blossoms from all of the almond trees. This usually occurs around …
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Recipe: Potato Tomato Pizza with Caramelized Onions
We came home from another fun camping trip (more on that to come later in the week!), only to find a relatively empty refrigerator. As Chris unloaded all of the very wet camping gear from …
