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Le Dried Pears
My family LOVES snacking. I know – snacking is good for our metabolism but these two could just snack all day and forego a proper meal. Luckily, they don’t. So, in addition to our balanced three meals, I try to make nutritious snacks that they can easily nosh. We are blessed to have a pear…
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Snappy Dill Pickles
My book club read “Cooked” by Michael Pollan. And while the reviews about the book were mixed, it did inspire me to get cooking again. I had intended for us all to make pickles together – inspired by the “earth” section of the book. But too much rosé was consumed and we all ended up…
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Tomato canning season – get help!
Its super exciting to get 24lbs of ripe tomatoes still smelling of sunshine. And the thought of bottling Summer in jars to unlock in the dead of Winter is very motivating. So I plucked what fruit we had from the vines in the greenhouse and asked hubby to drive to mariquita farms nearest drop off…
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Months later…it’s braising time
I’ve been off in neverland again and lost track of time. I’ve been cooking and taking photos but have completely neglected posting/archiving. And in the meantime, the season changes (or slight drop in temp here in CA) have inspired this deliciously comforting beer braised short ribs. What makes it even better is the perfectly proportioned…
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Roasted Eggplant Dip-ish
I’ve been lost. But now I’m found. I’m archiving recipes again. I didn’t mean to be on a four month hiatus. No recipe really inspired me to write. In fact, I’ve been referencing Scrumptious Bits a bunch. Though I’ve made this recipe before, it wasn’t archived and its so good. It needs a spot in…
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Spinach Dip
To me (and I apologize in advance), Super Bowl Sunday means scrumptious bits and funny commercials. Our menu today consists of my BFF’s chili recipe, nachos, chicken wings and spinach dip. I’ll post the most important recipe, the chili once I have clearance from my BFF. In the meantime, here’s the spinach dip recipe. Go…
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Chewy oatmeal raisin pecan cookies
Oatmeal raisin cookies are my husband’s favorite (well actually, he has many favorite cookies, ice cream flavors, really anything sweet is his favorite but these are in the top somewhere). We have a cute glass cookie jar that’s been packed away during the remodel that I just rediscovered. With these two motivators and a two…
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I’m back and with fried food
I took some time off to unplug and enjoy friends and family and the river and woods. In fact, there really was no signal. Even though I planned to bring back some photos of the scrumptious bits consumed during our camping trip, I never pulled out my phone. And therefore never took any pictures. I’ll…
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Meat sneaks into my salad
I love salads garnished with meat for dinner. Some favs include salmon salad, thai beef salad, vietnamese salad (that one comes with egg rolls too – so of course it’s scrumptious), nicoise salad…I could go on. And I will in other posts when I throw these together and finally take a photo of them. Today’s…
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