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Homemade Almond Butter + Fruit Toast
Maybe you are thinking “making almond butter is crazy speak — why would I go to the effort of making almond butter when I can buy that goodness in bulk at Costco or in the bulk section from the grinder machines.” I hear you. I love and buy from those machines too, but then one […]
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Scrap Stock: Save The Soup You’ve Been Throwing Away
Many years ago I read a cookbook that I’ve since forgotten that casually mentioned getting serious about stock by saving food scraps to make scrap stock. Young and strapped with a teeny grocery budget, I jumped in, eager to make what I had go further. I launched not as interested in flavor as I was […]

3 Simple Steps to Modify Any Recipe + Winter White Salad
I wanted to make the white salad this week- the stand-out favorite from my Fall 20/20 Collection (recipe and my seasonal swaps at the bottom of the post). But it’s winter I wanted something that fit the season- produce and temperature outside (it’s a bit blustery this week). So I rolled up my sleeves to […]

Is Butter Bad?
Is butter bad? Good question. Butter is on my Winter 20/20 List, but I confess, I hesitated with that choice. Butter isn’t bad, but it gets a bad rap, and often far worse than it deserves. It wasn’t butter’s fault for being so delicious, it was some funky science. It’s funky science still that leads […]

Lemon Bar Bites or Homemade Larabars
What’s the emergency snack in your bag? I try to pack fruit, but sometimes it’s fragile, squishes easily, and has a short bag life. Yeah, I’ve cleaned out a funky fruited purse before. It was bad. Nasty, moldy, bad. Yick. Now, I try to keep the fruit where I can see it, and […]

Drink More Water This Year: 5 Smart Tips To Make it Easy To Remember
It’s mid-January and the gym is packed and the vitamin shop around the corner has big sales on loads of supplements that promise rapid and radical changes. I’m happy for all of the motivated people making good on their new year goals, but I’m not joining them and their BIG PLANS. BIG PLANS seem prone […]

BLT Baked Eggs
Holidays mean company and the company likes to be fed. (I like to be fed too.) So today I’m sharing a new favorite. I invented with the end of a bumper crop of tomatoes at my sister-in-law’s house over Thanksgiving. It’s a crowd-pleaser. We cleared out the pan quickly. And even if the tomatoes are […]