Category: Books
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The Doughnut Cookbook Photoshoot
As I’ve been developing recipes, I’ve been taking photos (you’ve seen some of those on flickr)… but my draft manuscript was delivered on Sunday and now the photoshoot begins in…
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The Beginning: Would you like to write a cookbook?
How I ended up writing a doughnut cookbook is still a bit of a magically happy mishap for me. Late in the fall of 2008, I started thinking about cookbooks…
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Three Green Spanakopita
Earlier this summer, I received one of the most wonderful treats in the mail: Copies of two cookbooks, Falling Cloudberries and Secrets of the Red Lantern. These are both beautiful…
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Fennel Blossom Soup
I am kind of a soup person. I always want to know what the soup special is when I dine out. When I eat by myself, there’s a good chance…
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Hungry Monkey
One of the (many) benefits of living in Seattle is getting to hang with some amazing food writers. Seattle seems to have them in abundance. One of my favorites, without…
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Time for May-garitas
I know celebrating Cinco de Mayo has become a much bigger thing here in the US, but hey, any chance to have a party is good enough for me and…
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Splurging Now and Then
I live in a world where I don’t think much about the prices of food. Much of the food that we have around the house is left-over from some photo…
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Eating on $7 per day
I mentioned last week that this week I was participating in the United Way Hunger Challenge, and this morning it officially began. The goal of this challenge isn’t to go…
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Garden Thieves and CSAs
Someone stole my cabbage. I’m not pointing fingers or anything, but there is a certain dog who got his fair share of roughage for the week. And if that weren’t…
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Capellini Gratin
The words crunchy and pasta don’t normally go together. But if you are one of those souls who can’t get enough of the crispy bits on the edge of a…
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Menu For Hope 5
Yay! It’s Menu for Hope time again! This is my favorite blogging event of the year. A time to pull together a great gift, bid on a bunch of amazing…
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Meet the Madeleines
I made these chocolate-dipped orange zest madeleines as a little gift for the parents of one of Cole’s friends several months ago and again this week because they are so…