It’s that time of year again – Christmas cookie time! My family has always been known for their Christmas cookies (my Dad usually makes about 15-20 varieties every year!). Needless to say, we take the …
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Christmas Cookies 2019: The Shortbread Series
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Meal Prep Magic: Turkey Noodle Soup
I’ve talked about my great love of soup in the winter time – both as a healthy, warm meal as well as the perfect candidate for meal prep. This recipe takes advantage of the leftover …
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Ina Garten’s Turkey Recipe Won Thanksgiving
The turkey world is complicated – dare I say, over complicated. To brine or not to brine? To roast, fry, smoke, or grill? Should I cut the turkey up in pieces, spatchcock the turkey, or …
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Lemon Ice Cream
Yes friends – I am still powering through my lemon harvest. Out of the four that remained after the main harvest, two I used in a lemon ice cream recipe that turned out to be …
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Thanksgiving Menu!
It’s Thanksgiving week, and I couldn’t be more excited! I’m cooking the whole meal this year (for just two people – me and Chris). It’s going to be a lot of work, a lot of …
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Restaurant Review: Senoratown
We made a day out of dropping Chris off to a red-eye flight out of LAX yesterday by spending a fun Saturday in Downtown LA. We caught a comedy show, went to The Last Bookstore, …
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Meal Prep Magic: Chicken Soup with Italian Sausage Meatballs
It’s the first rainy day here in California, and there was even a slight chill in the air when I left the office this evening. To celebrate winter finally approaching, I wanted to post my …
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Lemon Marmalade
The final stage of my citrus preservation weekend was focused around my lemons. I harvested 15 gorgeous lemons, and turned them into 13 jars of marmalade. I followed this recipe through Simply Recipes (click the …
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Candied Grapefruit Peels
As part of my citrus preservation weekend, I decided it would be fun to make candied grapefruit peels from all of the grapefruit skins that I wasn’t going to use through making my Grapefruit Marmalade …
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Grapefruit Marmalade with Lime and Ginger
In preparation for my citrus harvest this year, I’ve been scouring the internet for good marmalade recipes. I’ve made lemon marmalade once before (more on that in a future post!), and I’m slowly gaining interest …
