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Every Christmas morning, I remember waking to the warm, surrounding tang in the air of bread baking coupled by the bright spice of orange zest. The aroma filled my lungs [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other c...

There's a connection between Sacramento grocer Darrell Corti - an internationally recognized food and wine expert - and "Skyfall," the 23rd James Bond adventure now playing in theaters. Some context: First there was the Vesper cocktail, the classic...

Happy Monday! Can you detect my sarcastic undertone? Blech! No matter how much older I get, I still abhor Mondays. You'd think the beginning of the week would illicit feelings of unicorns and rainbows. No? Well in the very least a fresh beginning...but...

  I think we can all agree, there's just nothing like Mom's home cookin'. It just tastes better, doesn't it? For that reason I've asked my Mom to submit some of her favorite recipes for me to share with y'all each...

  Broccoli smiles and food literacy.  Amber Stott  has lots to smile about these days. The California Food Literacy Center, a Sacramento based non-profit that she started July 2011 is successfully teaching kids all about food.  In a pilot program pre-test, when asked K-1st graders if healthy snacks taste good; 82% of kids said “no.”...

On the 1st Day From My Kitchen, I give to you, my Rustic Apple Pear Tart Recipe.  This is the time of year when we see some great apples and pears. Not far from where we live there is an apple festival called “Apple Hill” that goes from j...

I got home a few hours ago from the most fun, amazing, inspiring conference ever. I was honored to be a speaker at Mixed and seriously, I can’t wait for next year. I will write more about my experience later, I need to spend some QT with my little people, but it was the...

Before we get started, go check me out over at Design Dazzle today! I’m sharing some FUNFETTI sandwich cookies, filled with marshmallow frosting!!! It’s funfetti madness ’round these parts, yo! I had a horrible realization the other day: Fat pants just make you fatter. Seriously, did you already know this? I think I had...

We flew back from Florida via Miami and before heading to the airport stopped in Little Havana at the self-proclaimed "world's most famous Cuban restaurant" - Versailles. This extremely old school eatery made me nostalgic for one of our favorite (altho...

Do you ever get so many ideas for baking in your head that you just need to sloooooooow it down a little? That’s been me this week. I have a bunch of stuff baked up and ready to share over the next few weeks, thanks to Thanksgiving and some potlucks at school. But now...