*serves two 6 slices of cherrywood smoked bacon 1/4 cup of pure maple syrup 1 teaspoon of whole black peppercorns, crushed with a mortar and ...
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It snowed in Seattle. On November 4th. I mean…I realize we left California for the PNW but this was something. There’s a part of me that reall...
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She's babbling now. I hear her in the mornings through the baby monitor going "baba baba gagaga dadadada." I glance at Matt, trying to decide which ...
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If I had to guess, I'd say that granola makes up about 30% of my diet. You see, five days a week, my typical breakfast involves yogurt, granola, a...
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This weekend, I realized that I’ve been missing the sun. This is what Seattleites talk about when they talk about winter, right? On Sunday, the ...
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*Serves four For the chicken: One whole chicken (approximately 4 pounds) 6-8 sprigs of fresh thyme, oregano and sage kosher salt For th...
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For Matt’s 30th birthday, I baked him a German Chocolate Cake — his favorite, and my very first layered cake. I only had one cake pan at the t...
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Kristin and I first met in person over drinks in New York City with my friend Dave, after we had been following each other on Twitter for some tim...
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The recent California heat wave has kept me reaching for cold beverages, especially one of my favorite summer cocktails — the Paloma. A great...
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At some point, it became expected that whenever I would go home to visit my family, I would bring a delicious baked good (or goods). In some ways,...
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I’ve been slowly — very, very slowly — reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s book, Big Magic. Every couple of nights when I’m not up late working,...
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Serves eight 4 egg whites 1 cup of light brown sugar 2 tablespoons of dark cocoa sugar, plus additional for serving 1 cup of fresh whipped c...