I’ve never met a potato I didn’t like but my very favorite kind has a particularly crispy skin. I especially love when the top bubbles up a li...
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Winter fruit hardly excites me. I do love pears, and apples are good only when they are REALLY good, but other than that, I find winter to be the ...
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1 pound of shell-on shrimp 1 clove of garlic, minced 1/4 cup of extra virgin olive oil 5 dried ancho chiles* salt and pepper, to taste 1....
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One of my favorite things about food writing is getting to know so many wonderful people through it. Matt and I joke that whenever we travel, we ...
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Back when Matt and I used to spend most of our evenings sitting side-by-side on our couch, writing blog posts, I couldn’t imagine a life without...
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There are a whole slew of services and products geared at the last minute lifestyle. You know those people who are always buying their Christmas g...
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When I was about eight months pregnant with the twins, a friend introduced me to the Snowy Plover at Andytown Coffee Roasters in San Francisco. I ...
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Originally posted Feb 28, 2012 The last time I felt distinctly overwhelmed for a long period of time was while I was planning my wedding. Often...
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Putting together an alcohol collection is challenging. What should you get? What will you really use? In the early days of building u...
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If my memory serves me correctly, I’ve never set any New Year's resolutions before… but here I am at the end of January, setting one. Here it ...
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We’ve been reading this children’s book a lot lately. It’s written and illustrated by Carson Ellis, the wife of The Decemberists' Colin Melo...
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For the mango salsa: 1 mango, peeled and diced 1/2 jalapeno, cored, seeded, and finely minced 1 medium tomato, seeded and diced 1/3 cup of d...