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Help me go to bootcamp!
Recipe below: Earl Grey Plum Preserves Crumb BarsPacific Natural Foods is hosting an exciting food challenge...ok, the challenge isn't that exciting, but the prize is! An all-expenses paid two day trip...
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Key Lime Pie Cupcakes
Tuck in, kiddies! I’m going to talk about cupcakes, and there’s just no way to accurately describe these babies and still be brief. So pull up a chair, it’s story time.It all started with my sister...
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Chipotle Maple Grilled Tempeh Tacos
I have a new love. It’s a bit controversial. I kept it quiet at first because people wouldn’t understand. See, me and tempeh? Yeah, we’re kind of a thing.All joking aside, I am totally loving tempeh at...
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Pumpkin Spice Cake with Butterscotch Swiss Meringue Buttercream
One week before Halloween my adorable little nephew turned one year old. It was kind of a big deal for me. He is my only sister’s only child (thus far), and I absolutely love him to death. My sister...
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Lightened Up Green Bean Casserole
It will come as a surprise to no one when I tell you that I am a big fan of Thanksgiving. Besides being a holiday whose sole purpose is the celebrate food (let’s face it, that whole giving thanks...
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Pumpkin Buttermilk Pie
Has it really been almost 2 weeks since Thanksgiving!? Where did last week go? Oh yeah, it was swallowed up by the ugly bug that’s been lazily kicking the crap out of my immune system and other bodily...
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Fig Einsteins - It's Fruit and Cookie!
A new year, a new start. A time to resolve oneself for the year to come. The difficulty of this past year, and the inevitable difficulty of this new year to come, is part of the reason for my...
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Roasted Vegetable Winter Soup
Last post I promised a healthy soup to help shed those extra pounds we tend to get as a result of all that sticky toffee pudding, gingerbread, and eggnog around the holidays, and I am quite the...
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Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Bourbon Balls
This week’s soap box ramble will focus on shopping, and is brought to you by the letter $. Because you have to buy your food before you can cook it, right?Facing a drastically lower income 10 months...
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Just a Giveaway
It's that time again, folks! CSN stores is sponsoring another giveaway on this here humble food blog. As you may recall, CSN stores sells, um, everything - from cookware (ahem, my personal fave...
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Pasta with Roasted Spring Vegetables in Cambozola Sauce
Let’s start with the giveaway winner. Congratulations......drum-rolling... ...Kelly! You win the CSN Stores gift certificate! Congratulations! And who says the person who enters 5 minutes after you...
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St. Patty's Day Cake
When reflecting back on my greatest culinary successes over the last couple of years, I think the most rewarding ones have been the experiments. The dishes that I went in with a harebrained,...
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Roasted Garlic Cauliflower Soup
A moment to sit in quiet contemplation and reflection. What a concept. Feels like it's been, oh, a month since I've last had the pleasure. And what do you know? It's been about that long since my...
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Spicy Apricot Chutney
I love my neighbor, Julie. Not just because she has my name, but because when we meet a new neighbor, I can introduce us by saying "Wer're Julie." I love my neighbor, Julie. Not just because she has...
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Grilled Shaved Asparagus Pizza
Pardon the bandwagon jumping, I hear it’s great for toning your butt. I’m going to be yet another food blogger talking about shaved asparagus this week. It’s everywhere! If you’ve tried it, you’ll know...
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In Which I Talk About Food, Near and Far
Been cooking. Been baking. Nothing I'm ready to share yet. Lame, right? But my mother taught me sharing is caring*, so here we are.I made this roasted mango salsa from Cara's Cravings. Have you...
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Chocolate Strawberry Ricotta Tart
I had a thought the other day - yep, just the one. If I could go back in time and talk to my teenage self, what would I say? We’ve all had this thought, right? Though you probably have other...
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Mint Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream
If you can believe it, I was never a big fan of mint. When I was a kid I hated anything with the slightest hint of mint. Believe it. You can see where I’m going with this...It blows my mind how many...
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Sautéed Swiss Chard and Mushrooms with Chicken Sausage
Life is crazy. Life is a whirlwind. Confession: I am a homebody. A shut-in at heart, though not in practice. I like spending my evenings quietly with my husband and my dog, my days in simple, solitary...
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Fall Vegetable and Beef Bolognese
Fall is here. Almost. I’m ready for warm stews and casseroles. Almost. I’m ready to stop eating anything that doesn’t involve a whole can of pumpkin. Getting there. But it’s also still sunny and warm...
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Halloween Trifle
I’m going to drop some embarrassingly honest Julie history on you.A few years ago I ate out pretty much every meal except breakfast. My gourmet kitchen offerings back then? Something along the lines of...
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Pumpkin Ravioli Surprise
My Ode To Dough:Here’s how my crazy brain works: rather than a measure of your skill in the kitchen, I think a recipe’s degree of difficulty is more like your investment in making it from scratch vs....
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Browned Butter Pumpkin Bundt Cake with Spiced Bourbon Pumpkin Glaze
Because everyone else is doing it. That's an acceptable reason to do something, right? All the predictions of what 2012 will bring got me thinking. It always does. I’m always wrong. Let’s move...
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Crave-ably Healthy Veggie Wrap
Healthy eating (and on the flip side unhealthy eating) seems to ebb and flow. It can be affected by the season, the weather, and especially holidays. December was cookies and prime rib and champagne....
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Coconut Granola
The changes in my diet, like the changes in my body when I lost my plethora of poundage, were slight rather than drastic. But slight change after slight change later, my eating habits between now and 5...
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