Do you keep in touch with your high school friends (if you're out of high school)? I sure do. In fact, I think my high school friends are prett...
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When my parents' apricot tree is heavy with its full glory of fruit, it is a feast for all, including the squirrels. My parents' apricots are smal...
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There is a neatly arranged time and place for everything in life, including peanut butter. I used to tell Matt, even before we were married, that ...
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Serves four 2 1⁄2 pounds bone-in beef short ribs 6 dried guajillo chiles, stemmed and seeded 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 large onion, chopped ...
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Here we go. I blinked and there went Thanksgiving. And now, we're weeks away from Christmas and New Year's and I'm still shopping for gifts, tryin...
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Back in the spring of 2003, I embarked on my first solo international flight headed to Siena, Italy by way of Florence, by way of Bologna. I must ...
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There comes a time in life when you're no longer chasing the highest ratio of alcohol by volume (ABV) to dollars. The trend has been going on for ...
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serves four 3 ears of corn 2 tablespoons of finely chopped cilantro 2 limes, juiced 1/2 jalapeño pepper, seeded and thinly sliced 2 nectarin...
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Few things are more therapeutic than mixing colors in a bowl and frosting cookies. These cookies involved only my second time using food coloring ...
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*serves four For the chicken: 1.6 pounds of skinless chicken thighs (approximately) 2 tablespoons of honey 10 sprigs of thyme salt and...
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The more I cook at home, the less impressed I am when I go out to restaurants. A bowl of pasta for $17? A fillet of fish over seasonal vegetables ...
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Megan and I met some time ago, when she was still living in San Francisco. I won't go into some of the big life changes she was going through at t...