I was always the kid who was stuck bringing Nature Valley “Oats ‘n Honey” granola bars to school for snack time. You know, the boring, green wrapper kind that you find at Costco in 5,000 count boxes for $9.79. Everyone else had cool Teddy Grahams or cooler Gushers or coolest Dunk-a-Roos, and I had these [...]
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Granola 2.0
I needed to give this one another go-around. My first batch o’ granola focused on avoiding butter to have a “healthier” result. I guess apple juice is “healthier” than butter, but when you don’t use butter your granola isn’t quiiiiiiite as special/tasty/treat-worthy. Besides, Super Natural author Heidi Swanson uses butter in her granola, so it [...]
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Brown Butter Strawberry Muffins
Recently America’s Test Kitchen posted the “perfect chocolate chip cookie” recipe online. As a cookie monster, I was intrigued. A perfect chocolate chip cookie? Better than Levain Bakery on the Upper West Side?! How was this possible? While I’ve yet to try ATK’s version, I was totally intrigued by their use of browned butter instead [...]
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Crumpets
Ok, don’t lie, who isn’t just sliiiightly intrigued by the royal wedding hype? I mean, come on. It’s like the Academy Awards, the Inauguration, and the Jolie-Pitts wrapped into one Big British 5 A.M. event. I feel like there are women out there, donned in fanny packs and sweatpants, sitting on stoops with their five [...]
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Asparagus Quiche
Happy (Good) Friday, everyone! When trying to think of an Easter recipe, I kept coming back to two things and two things only: asparagus and quiche. I know everyone thinks of decorating Easter eggs or chocolates shaped like bunnies, but we never really got into that much in our family. Easter Sunday meant Mass (after [...]
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Blueberry Corn Muffins
Yikes! It’s been over a week since my last post! It would be great to have some cool excuse like I was in Paris with Ina Garten or something, but truthfully I’ve got nothing. Let’s just say working six shifts last week wasn’t exactly conducive to leisurely blogging. I might as well have set up [...]
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Breakfast Quinoa
In some sick twist of fate, I think I’m allergic to gluten. Either I’ve spent way too much time on WebMD dreaming my way into hypochondriac land, or I’m actually going to have to avoid pizza, pasta, bread, beer… everything that I hold dear in this life… for the rest. of. my. life. I don’t [...]
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Apple and Cheddar Tart
So I moved. It started out on Saturday with me calmly boxing up cookbooks and tenderly wrapping wine glasses in tissue paper. It ended Monday morning in frantic tears as I threw frying pans haphazardly into paper bags (which, obviously, ripped as soon as I lifted them) with totally unrelated items like extension cords and [...]
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Spring Onion Frittata
Global Warming or no global warming, 65 degrees in February is A-OK with me (sorry Mr. Gore). To celebrate the fact that I did NOT have to leave the house in a snowsuit, I decided to hit up the market for some spring-like produce. Asparagus weren’t quiiiiite in, and there was no sign of spring [...]
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Cranberry Scones
If this post were an episode, and the episode had a bloopers reel, it would consist of me waving my throw pillow frantically in the air underneath my blaring fire alarm. Every 3 minutes. For half an hour. My arms are legitimately sore. Turns out, tiny ovens in tiny apartments can still emit enough smoke [...]
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