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Chocolate Rice Crispy Treats and The Allergen-Free Baker’s Handbook Cookbook Giveaway

Chocolate Rice Crispy Treats and The Allergen-Free Baker’s Handbook Cookbook Giveaway

Cybele Pascal and I met at a food blogging conference over a year ago. Her reputation preceded the opportunity to hear her speak on a panel addressing food allergies. Her story is one that many moms can relate to and involves learning to cook with her son’s food allergies in mind. She is an outspoken [...]

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Oatmeal-Flax Carob Cherry Cookies

Oatmeal-Flax Carob Cherry Cookies

One of my favorite things to do (ok, one of my obsessions…) is to take a recipe and make it healthier. It’s a constant circus in my head, thinking about how I can recreate foods I’d love to eat so that they’re gluten-free, refined sugar-free and a little bit better for me. It stems from [...]

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Roasted Provençal Tomatoes (and How to Make Veggies Everyone will Love!)

Roasted Provençal Tomatoes (and How to Make Veggies Everyone will Love!)

Everyone loves dessert. It’s sweet. It’s comforting. For most people, dessert brings an amazing amount of joy and satisfaction. There’s a reason we have birthday cake and not big, healthy birthday salad. There’s a way, though, to take vegetables and make them crazy exciting. Really. I’m a vegetable lover. I’m happy chomping on raw lettuce [...]

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Chicken Meatloaf

Chicken Meatloaf

Around here we love the diversity, simplicity and great flavor of meatloaf. This comfort food is not the most glamourous, but most folks embrace the joy of coming home to one after a long day at work. It is equally wonderful to open your homemade lunch box to find this kind of nourishing meal at [...]

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Food Preservation as a Way of Simple Living

If you count off what you need to survive, it’s pretty simple. Water, food and shelter come to mind. Recently, at the airport, I flashed my driver’s license through the security line and caught a glimpse of a red card that serves as a bona fide certification of my status as a Californian. Gilt with [...]

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