If having an outdoor barbeque grill isn’t ideal for your place, using best electric smoker reviews would be the best option to get that great grill-like meal on a weekend. Electric smoker grills are quite similar to the typical outdoor grill, but what’s good about electric smokers is that it is less hazardous to use since […]
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Gluten-free. Dairy-free. Grain-free. For too long those buzz words meant Flavor-free to me. And Joy-free. I was prepared to to go Food-free if it meant cutting out all my favorite ingredients. But I’m starting to be won over, mostly thanks to chefs like Pete Evans who whip up glories that make me want for nothing.Take […]
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We have a sneaking suspicion that lemons are about to be the new superfood (if that happens, you read it here first). It’s not that we don’t love our kale and quinoa, we just need a little more variety.Aside from the fact that lemons have antioxidant and anti-cancer properties as well as antibiotic effects, they’re […]
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I love it when widely accepted food myths get busted. Like butter turning out to be a good thing (did we really doubt Julia Child there for awhile?). Or finding out that eggs don’t cause heart disease. Now it’s time to clear up another point of contention: Pizza is not bad for you. It is […]
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When Fran and I first met, our kids were going to a small country school in the south of France. Nutella was a staple in every French kitchen then, and took the place of peanut butter in our lives for awhile. It was also served as an afternoon snack at school everyday, smeared thickly over […]
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I grew up in a Poppin’ Fresh family. My mother was not a baker, and had no desire to be one. On those occasions when biscuits came into play, she bought a roll of Pillsbury dough and asked one of us kids to give it that dough-bursting whack on the countertop. She did make plenty of other comfort […]
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We all know that the aroma of hot, yeasty, sweet bread just as it comes out of the oven is irresistible. Now imagine the tender, chewy bite of freshly risen buns mingled with a perfectly balanced, not-too-sweet blend of finely chopped nuts and melted chocolate. Way to start your day! To enjoy fresh, warm rolls in […]
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My first trip to Hawaii was more than twenty years ago. It was love at first sight, even if I did have to spend much of my time in the shade. The air just feels different, more oxygenated somehow. There’s all that powdery black sand, and those sea turtles. There’s the hula, outrigger canoes, tiki […]
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I was (am) the youngest of three kids. Which meant my older and bossier siblings pretty much called the shots around our house while I consoled myself with thoughts of how the meek would someday inherit the earth. Instead, I mostly seemed to inherit their hand-me-downs, and for sure I never—ever—got my favorite flavors when […]
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While Fran has been hanging on to the last threads of summer with her Whiskey Smash and her S’more Cookies, I’ve been pining for colder weather and a change in the seasons—something California has been holding out on. But now I’ve grown tired of waiting, so I’ve moved on with my fall baking. We may […]
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A few years ago, I brought a cranberry-apple pie to a dinner party. It didn’t go well.The pie was fine. It was the same apple-cranberry pie I’d been making for years. In fact, it was so fine that another woman at the dinner–not the host, not someone I knew very well–asked for the recipe. I […]
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