Category: Edibles
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The Pantry Project
I love to start projects. And though I’m not that great at finishing them, starting them is always a blast. My latest project involves my favorite things: food, lists, and grocery stores. Usually, I make a weekly menu for all our meals and go to the supermarket once a week. I buy all the produce,…
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The Scoop
Or…why Mexicans don’t need utensils. I guess every Mexican-American learns the Scoop Technique at some point during childhood. It works for any food, whether it’s beans or a ground beef mixture or fideo or eggs. Who needs forks? We have tortillas! Tonight we had breakfast for dinner, primarily because we haven’t gone grocery shopping this…
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The Soup Peddler
It’s soup season once again. Our local hero, David Ansel, a.k.a. the Soup Peddler, has reinforced my love for him by dishing out my favorite soup in the first week: Bouktouf. It’s a pureed zucchini soup with all kinds of yumminess inside, but to me it’s reminiscent of soups my mom used to make (except…
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Dreaminess
We’ve had such a wonderful weekend. Justin’s been on vacation since Thursday, so we’ve been riding our bikes and watching movies and eating, eating, eating. This evening we walked to Whole Foods to get some more coffee beans for Justin’s weekday coffee fix. He chose a French Roast, which is filling the whole apartment with…
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Lindsay’s Bake Shop
Justin and I rarely have baked desserts…I hate making a whole cake or pie and having so much left over. This will hopefully be remedied by my new Small Batch Baking book. Lindsay, however, bakes desserts all the time. She never has a problem finishing them before they go bad, because, well, she has Chad.…