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04/15/2012 09:49 PM

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Missing you!

You can’t imagine how very much I miss all of you! And, the fun, creativity, and camaraderie of blogging. Where have I been? Well, the answer is quite simple. I’ve been working. A lot. I have many passions in life. Some of you know I love to create in the kitchen, eat, and share those recipes with you. I’m passionate about my family and friends and the little dogs. And, I’m

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11/13/2011 01:50 PM

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Red & Blue Herbed Potatoes

While I haven’t been here—at The Sensitive Pantry—so often lately I have been out and about with friends and family. In between we’ve been dodging (or not) hurricanes and freak October snowstorms that have left us on two occasions without power for more than 5 days each time. Yes, life has been clipping along at a fast pace. Even so, the individual events—in snapshot

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10/15/2011 09:01 PM

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Baked Breakfast: Quinoa Oatmeal

My new favorite breakfast. And, it’s packed with lots of great stuff. Three kinds of fruit—blueberries, peaches and pears—quinoa, oats, coconut yogurt or applesauce, almond flour and almond milk. Mix them all together and you’ve got a great hot breakfast boasting a complete protein and lots of fiber, magnesium, and iron. Plus it’s a cinch to pull together on a busy m

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10/02/2011 10:21 PM

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Mallomars or Whippets {Gluten-free}: with a White Wine Kicker

Each year, when the weather turns cool, it’s time to keep a lookout for the bright yellow boxes of Mallomars adorning the end of the aisle at your local grocery store. Boxes and boxes of delightful chocolate covered marshmallowy goodness. And then they’re gone. That’s because Mallomars are, according to the NY Times, “The Cookie That Comes Out in the Cold”—a se

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09/25/2011 08:32 AM

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Blueberry Chili Hot Sauce

Remember those blueberries my husband and I picked this summer? Well, he had this brainstorm that they’d make a kickin’ hot sauce. Ya know what? He was right! I have to hand it to him…I never would have put blueberries and hot peppers together. It totally impressed me. This recipe came together very quickly—the color is magnificent and the sauce is hot! And my husband uses

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09/04/2011 02:03 PM

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Red Velvet Chocolate Chip Muffins

It’s Labor Day Weekend. The official (but not really) end of summer. A summer filled with memorable moments—some heartbreaking and some heartwarming. Earthquakes, hurricanes, 5-day power outages, and monumental personal loss for many of my food blogger friends. Foodbloggers uniting in a way that helped bolster my faith in the goodness and charity of people. Many, many 8-second hugs. T

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08/22/2011 07:41 AM

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A Fund for Jennie

Jennie and Mikey Perillo (photo from In Jennie’s Kitchen) If you have a love of all things food you probably visit more than just one or two food blogs looking for recipes to whet your appetite. What you may not realize is that many of us food bloggers visit each other’s sites, chat online, meet in person and become friends. That is something I never expected when I started blogging 3

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07/13/2011 03:26 PM

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Fresh Blueberry Pie with Lemon Thyme Crust

Blueberries! They’re in season from June through August. They’re delicious—succulent blue gems eaten fresh off the bush or incorporated into sweet things like blueberry pancakes, blueberry muffins or blueberry pie. They’re good for you—high in antioxidants and anti-inflammatories (which don’t diminish with freezing). These nutrients translate to improved cognit

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06/21/2011 08:23 PM

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Simple Summer Smoothies

Summertime. It’s all about relaxing, having fun, sipping cold drinks. It’s also about quick and simple. You can have all that in one glass of thick and fruity smoothie perfection. OK, maybe two glasses. While sipping a peach blueberry coconut water smoothie I wondered about the history of smoothies. A few Google searches later and visions of long haired, bell bottomed macrobiotic vege

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06/12/2011 09:18 AM

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Mounds of Coconut Ice Cream (Dairy-Free)

I’m always interested in the health benefits of food. Having no formal education in nutrition I’m reliant upon online resources for information about whether ingredients are part of the “good” list—or the “bad” list. But, wow, the information can be so confusing! Good fats. Bad fats. How foods are processed. What’s added to them. How much does the p

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06/01/2011 08:10 AM

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Raw Rustic Nutella

Prior to making this Raw Rustic Nutella I wasn’t much of a nutella fan. I know. I know. The world is having a love affair with nutella and I’ve been on the outside looking in. I just didn’t get it….at first. Then my foray into the raw foods world ignited a desire to experiment. Even if going raw is not for you it does makes sense to add more raw foods to your diets where p

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05/22/2011 11:41 AM

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Deep Dark Chocolate Muffins

Photos memorialize our lives. Each snapshot is meant to be viewed later to stir memories of what was. Just like the blog posts, journal entries, letters, and emails we write are memorials to the moments we cherish. The moments we don’t want to forget. Or, the moments we want to remember so we’ll not repeat ourselves. Yeah, folks, I’m rambling a bit. What does any of this have

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05/18/2011 01:00 AM

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Easy Gluten-Free Living: Tips for BBQs & Picnics

Foil Cooking: Grilled Cabbage & Potato Packets Thanks for checking in to see what 30 Days To Easy Gluten-Free Living is all about. It’s the brainchild of Diane Elbin of The WHOLE Gang fame. She’s a zippy lady who decided it was time to share that gluten-free living can be pretty easy. She rallied the troops—a group of some 30 GF bloggers—and asked us to help by sharing&

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05/07/2011 08:54 AM

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Easy Creamy Artichoke Soup (Gluten-free & Dairy-free)

Artichokes are popping up in the grocery store and making my mouth water. Typically we stuff and steam them. Not this time. Instead I went with this easy creamy artichoke soup. I like to serve fresh, local whole foods to my family whenever possible. Our grocery store had the cutest baby artichokes. Probably not local ones but they were fresh—well, you know, as fresh as a veggie that’s

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04/27/2011 05:00 AM

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Raw Nutter Butter Bars (Gluten-Free and Vegan!)

Host: Brittany Angell of Real Sustenance Exploring raw foodism as part of April in the Raw—where talented bloggers post a new raw recipe every day in April—is an eye opening experience. We’re journeying beyond fresh, uncooked fruits and vegetables into the world of dehydrated foods. We’re learning how cooking food depletes its nutrients and increases free radicals

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04/22/2011 03:20 PM

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Butternut Cinnamon Rolls (Gluten-Free, Yeast Free & Vegan)

I made these Butternut Cinnamon Rolls a few times. Yes, because they’re that yummy. Thing is they came out a little different each time. Just the teeny tiniest bit different depending on exactly what gluten-free flour blend or butternut squash—frozen, canned, fresh—was used. It’s something that can happen when you bake with substitutions—no gluten, no butter and no e

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04/17/2011 09:27 PM

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TSP Gluten-Free Flour Blend

My head spins when thinking about the selection of available gluten-free flours. There’s the ubiqitous family of rice flours—brown, white, and sweet. The starch sisters—tapioca, corn and potato. Sorghum, buckwheat, millet, teff, amaranth and corn flours. Non-grains like coconut flour, nut and bean flours. And, the unique flours—grape, mesquite, and quinoa. I could just sho

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03/26/2011 07:09 PM

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Chicken Lettuce Wraps

I’ve been MIA, in my own private Idaho, head down, nose to the grindstone. Have you ever been in your car headed toward a destination only to find you arrived but have no recollection of how you got there? That’s basically what my past six weeks have been like. I picked my head up the other day and barely remember the journey that got me to today. It’s nothing life threatening&#

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03/06/2011 10:42 AM

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Mango Pudding (gluten-free & dairy-free)

Have you ever had Mango Lassi? It’s a spectacular mango yogurt drink available in most Indian restaurants. Not quite a smoothie. Not really a milkshake. Just cool and creamy and screams, “mango!”. Perfect with that flaming hot, flavor packed Indian dish you just ordered. Yep. That’s how I rolled (when I still could have yogurt). Got one every time. I originally thoug

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02/20/2011 09:05 PM

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Tuna Noodle Casserole (gluten-free)

I’m a comfort food kind of woman. Although complex flavors are appealing I’ll cave every time to something as simple and ordinary as Tuna Noodle Casserole. This dish is not a regular visitor to our table. I’ll let you in on a little secret—my guys are not actually in love with it. Once in a blue moon they’ll indulge my craving and with half hearted smiles come to the

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02/12/2011 09:21 AM

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Chocolate Raspberry Bars

Sometimes I read back through my blog and realize it’s a cooking chronicle of my life. Little tidbits of the current days sprinkled throughout my musings of favorite foods—like Chocolate Raspberry Bars. How, I’m wondering, do I sprinkle in the kind of week I’ve had with this pretty little dessert? What kind of week was it, you ask? The kind of week where the work days are

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01/30/2011 02:39 PM

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Shredded Chicken Chili

If you follow me on Twitter you know one of the things I love about my husband is that he cooks his famous (around these here parts) chili for me. Any. Time. I. Want. It. It’s a special treat because 1) it’s good! and 2) he’s cooking…not me! Needless to say, it’s pretty unusual for me to make chili. It was Kim’s (Cook It Allergy Free) Chicken Chipotle Tortilla

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01/29/2011 09:00 AM

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PB & Bacon Dog Biscuits: Gluten-free treats fit for The King's best friend

If Elvis still graced the earth he’d probably ask me to send him these PB & Bacon Dog Biscuits for his beloved companions. I’d keep busy making GF dog bones for the Elvis pack and running my little blog for the rest of my natural born days. Despite numerous Elvis sightings it seems that dream isn’t going to happen any time soon. I’ll just have to keep making them

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01/25/2011 06:00 AM

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Hot Pomegranate Cider {with a White Tea Kicker}

Hot Pomegranate Cider goodness—so nice to sip while you read the post. It’s January—the month that follows the busiest, most indulgent, frivolous, joyful month of the year. It’s the time we slow down. Take stock. Renew ourselves. We vow to exercise and eat right. To savor life. To cherish our families. To put our heart and soul into some big endeavor. We detoxify and revita

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01/16/2011 08:09 AM

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Toasted Coconut Breakfast Risotto

Toasted Coconut Breakfast Risotto—sounds perfect for a cold day in January, don’t you think? That’s exactly what we’ve got here in the northeast. A cold and somewhat gloomy day. Lots of snow on the ground. A nip in the air. All I want to do is hibernate. Not possible. The little dogs still get excited about going for a walk—and if they don’t get one they add to

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01/02/2011 08:44 AM

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Savor {Orange Oatmeal Scones}

Every New Year’s Day one of my best friends picks a word as her focus for the year ahead. I marvel at her decision to do this—to think about and live by that word all year long. It takes the same kind of self determination to go gluten-free and never look back. I’ve done that. I guess I can pick a word and see where it takes me. Maybe I need a vision board—like the ones so

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12/10/2010 01:00 AM

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Share our Holiday Table {recipe: Bacon Wrapped Turkey Spiedini}

1 out of 6 children worry about when their next meal will come. That’s 12 million American children. There are few better causes than the elimination of childhood hunger. That’s what the folks at Share Our Cause: No Kid Hungry work to do every day. Sixty-something foodbloggers, participating in Share Our Holiday Table, are joining the fight. We’re reaching out to readers&

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11/30/2010 08:44 PM

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Calling All Cookies!

It’s the first of December, the time of year where everything begins to fast forward. Holiday music heralds in the buzz that will surround us these next few weeks. There are parties to plan, presents to buy, holiday specials to watch, and baking, baking, baking to be done. But, not if you don’t have a stove. *sniff sniff* If you don’t have a stove you can do everything but the

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11/20/2010 06:08 PM

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Day After Thanksgiving Salad with Cranberry Vinaigrette

If your family is anything like mine you’re going to have some pretty spectacular food adorning your Thanksgiving table. Possibly too much spectacular food. After dinner folks will be pushing their chairs back and rubbing their bellies. One or two will utter that they ate too much. Some will collapse on the couch but will be more than happy to hobble back to the table for coffee and pumpkin

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11/15/2010 01:00 AM

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Brown Sugar Hand Pies (plus a story & a cookbook)

There are times I’m certain the cooking mojo has left me—times when kitchen creativity has taken wing. It’s a hollow feeling and have found it’s best to cook and bake old reliables until it passes. Sooner or later my mojo returns and I breathe a sigh of relief. Now a new kind of mojo chaser has surfaced to pester me. The ideas are coming but the execution…not so much.

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11/02/2010 08:53 AM

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Nutty Fruity Granola Bars (Gluten-free, Vegan)

Gluten-free & vegan Nutty Fruity Granola Bars. Photo taken by Reed Kiely. I’ve been on a bit of a quest. As work picks up and takes me away from my beloved kitchen more and more—leaving earlier and returning later—I find the need for quick, nutritious breakfasts and snacks. Nuts, gluten-free crackers, and fruit are tucked in my bag. Salads are a lunch staple. In fact, my cowo

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10/25/2010 08:00 AM

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A Community Dinner: One Dish at a Time

Buttermilk Biscuit Bites with Feta and Sun-Dried Tomatoes (recipe follows) This post is about community, friends and family. And, yes, it’s about food. The kind of food that makes it easy to get together: Perfect One-Dish Dinners. A while ago I mentioned having had the good fortune of meeting Pam, Maggy, and Sharon over at Three Many Cooks. Pam (Anderson) is the mom of the family and a cookb

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10/17/2010 08:36 AM

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Chocolate Chai Pie

I literally whipped up this Chocolate Chai Pie within days of being invited to a contest featuring recipes with tea as an ingredient. This is not typically the kind of dessert that comes out of my kitchen. Although I truly love pies I’m more smitten with those made with fruit than any other kind. Since I haven’t tried my hand at gluten-free pie crusts this sweet dessert has not crosse

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10/11/2010 02:44 PM

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Through the Looking Glass: BlogHerFood 2010

The movie on the flight home from BlogHerFood 2010 was Alice in Wonderland. Too tired to fully concentrate I watched snippits, mostly without sound, in between fits of dozing. The surreality of the movie did not escape me—in fact it was intensified by the start and stop action produced by my napping. Alice in her sometimes confusing world. Alice chasing a “dream”. Alice falling

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09/20/2010 10:04 PM

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Maple Marshmallow Creme Filled Whoopie Pies (Gluten-free & Vegan)

The batter for these whoopie pies was superb. It was mousse-like—puffy and creamy. Something akin to a really thick chocolate shake. I almost didn’t want to bake it—it was that good. But, I scooped it into little domes and popped them right into the oven to bake. Only thing to do then was wait. I started to clean up—humming along, excitedly anticipating the divine chocolat

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09/20/2010 10:04 PM

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Maple Marshmallow Creme Filled Whoopie Pies (Gluten-free)

The batter for these whoopie pies was superb. It was mousse-like—puffy and creamy. Something akin to a really thick chocolate shake. I almost didn’t want to bake it—it was that good. But, I scooped it into little domes and popped them right into the oven to bake. Only thing to do then was wait. I started to clean up—humming along, excitedly anticipating the divine chocolat

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09/15/2010 09:33 PM

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Oatmeal Ice Cream with Maple Rum Raisin Sauce

I don’t remember what first made me think, “I bet Oatmeal Ice Cream would be good,” because rational thought ceased to exist the minute I put this lusciousness into my mouth. It’s creamy oatmeal with a hint of cinnamon & nutmeg—only it’s the cool and decadent city cousin not the old-fashioned, warm-hearted country cousin. That’s why it’s topped

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09/10/2010 09:38 AM

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Simple Summer Squash & Bean Soup

The CSA is abundant this time of year and I have more veggies than I can handle. It’s a good thing to have so much organic food at my fingertips but it challenges me—how do I use all of this healthy food before it wilts or turns or isn’t fresh anymore? The way the CSA works is that I ride up to the farm every other week and pick up two, maybe three, huge bags of vegetable

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09/02/2010 11:26 AM

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Peach Berry Crisp

One of the big topics in food blogging today is attribution—recognizing the creator of the original recipe in your post. We honor each other by linking back to the inspirational recipe that spoke to us and said, “Me. Make me. I’m delicious!” I do have some attributions for this recipe but first let’s just acknowledge that a Google search for Peach Berry Crisp yields

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08/30/2010 08:29 AM

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Nutella Brownies....well, almost.

Abby Dodge. If you met her you’d swear you know her from somewhere. She’s one of the neighbors you haven’t had a chance to get to talk to yet—the one that smiles a lot. The one that brings the fabulous desserts to all the neighborhood parties and picnics. Yep. That’s Abby Dodge. She’s fun and creative and can whisk white chocolate laced whipped cream as nonchal

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08/27/2010 05:28 PM

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Nutella Brownies....well, almost.

Abby Dodge. If you met her you’d swear you know her from somewhere. She’s one of the neighbors you haven’t had a chance to get to talk to yet—the one that smiles a lot. The one that brings the fabulous desserts to all the neighborhood parties and picnics. Yep. That’s Abby Dodge. She’s fun and creative and can whisk white chocolate laced whipped cream as nonchal

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08/27/2010 08:57 AM

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Grilled Cabbage & Potato Packets

Cabbage seems like a fall vegetable to me. It should be paired with corned beef or boiled with potatoes. It should be blanched, stuffed with rice and ground beef, covered with tomato sauce and steamed in the pressure cooker. That’s fall cooking in my book. So why—in the middle of the hottest summer in 70 years—am I getting a cabbage at every CSA pick-up? What am I going to do wi

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08/19/2010 10:55 PM

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Honeyed Figs with Roasted Rosemary Goat Cheese

Food is art. At least at its best it is. Figs may be the quintessential food as art. Because of their sensual beauty they can be seen dotting the landscape of still life oil paintings throughout history. They’re vibrant, unique, and the colors alone are cause for drooling—rich black ruby (Black Mission) to amber (Calimyrna) to the brilliant green lovelies shown above (Kadota). C

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08/13/2010 10:00 AM

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Doughnut Muffins (Gluten-Free & Vegan)

Remember last weekend I attended The Big Summer Potluck—a foodblogger gathering in PA? Today I’m featuring a recipe that stole the show that day. I didn’t really tell you much about the abundance of good food that was served so let’s talk about it a little before we get to the muffins. Although Jeanne (Four Chickens) and I were the only gluten-free foodies at The Big

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08/11/2010 12:56 PM

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Big Summer Potluck

Big Summer Potluck - Photo by Erika @ The Ivory Hut What to share? What to share? Clearly, there are a million thoughts buzzing my brain. It’s been that kind of week—busy and fun and social. I’ve spent it re-connecting with dear old friends and meeting new friends—some of whom I’ve talked to but never seen. I’ve relaxed, listened, talked, prepared and eaten food

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07/22/2010 03:20 PM

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Breakfast, Tea, Anytime Jumbles

I like to bake in the morning. It’s just a great way to start the day IMHO. Besides, I get so busy with other things that by the time afternoon rolls around I have second thoughts about getting out the baking gear. After all, afternoon is the time to start thinking about cooking dinner and the idea of baking then just seems like something extra to try to squeeze in. For me baking is funR

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07/16/2010 08:10 AM

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Lemon Basil Ice Cream

I lead a double life. Worker bee, wife, friend and mother by day. Foodblogger, tweeter and recipe dreamer-upper by night. That’s how it feels sometimes when I get together with old friends. The ones I’ve known forever. The pre-food sensitivity, pre-foodblogger, just plain old Nancy friends. The ones I get to see face-to-face. I have another life—one that revolves around this foo

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07/08/2010 08:05 AM

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Woohoo! Yoohoo! (Dairy-free) Chocolate Coconut Water

Answer: 1920s. In New Jersey. By a paisano named Natale Olivieri. Question: When, where and by whom was Yoo-Hoo originally made and sold. That’s all I’ve got folks. No cute story about why I decided to mimic dairy-free Yoo-Hoo. Sometimes something just pops into my head and I’m off and running. Other than that I’ve got nothing. Clearly there’s only one real Yoo-Hoo C

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06/28/2010 07:52 AM

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Cajeta (Dulce de Leche) Muffins

I’m a big fan of muffins. Any kind. I like the texture, the variety of flavor combinations, the taste. They’re like individual little cakes—delicious and not too sweet. I don’t feel guilty eating them for breakfast. I probably should. But, I don’t. The cajeta my sister and I made recently—made with unpasteurized goat milk courtesy of her beau, natural cane suga

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06/21/2010 07:31 AM

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Kale Chip Combos

Everyone’s making Kale Chips. Kids and adults alike are digging into these simple, tasty, and good-for-you snacks. That’s fortunate for kale since it’s a green that’s a little tough (pun intended) to love. And this is coming from a woman who loves her greens. Some of you may disagree with my assessment of kale. That’s only fair and I accept it. In fact I want to know

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