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• Chocolate Layer Cake w/ @BrooklynBrewery Blast! & @Cocanu Craque

  

  February 2015 It’s the early 80s. For us babies of the 80s, we may have been bumbling around in jellies, little shorts and elasticized tube tops, while our... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2015 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• A Spicy Valentine

  

  February 2015 I’ve celebrated his thoughtfulness, his compassionate heart, his desire to save the world, his sincerity and his intellect, but every now and then... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2015 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Fried Chicken & Butternut Squash Spelt Waffles for Brunch

  

  February 2015 I had a lot on my proverbial plate, but my eyes were bigger than my stomach. The heaps grew, but the flavor diminished. Beautiful foods were pushe... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2015 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Whole Wheat Chocolate Wine Cake with Caramelized Figs

  

  February 2015 In the words of Marissa A. Ross, “Wine times are the times of your lifetimes,” but Marissa is not the only philosopher to wax poetic about the... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2015 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Whole Wheat Dark Chocolate Peppermint Brownies w/ @Cocanu Candied Cacao

  

  February 2015 Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. ~Stephen Vincent Benét Lik... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2015 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Celebrating A French Tradition: Galette Des Rois

  

  January 2015 Rare, rare, rare is the occasion on which you will come to my dining room to eat a dessert I have not baked. However, when it comes to the French... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2015 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Instagram Lately: It’s Cold Outside, But The Kitchen is Warm

  

  January 2015 “Crazy Legs” is the technical term for the moment when my dog Julep’s back legs accelerate faster than her front legs, propelling her into a... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2015 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Gingerbread Granola

  

  January 2015 Good friends of mine just returned from a transforming three weeks in Peru (my cold toes are reaping the rewards of souvenir alpaca slippers!!!). Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2015 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Rustic Root Vegetable Pie with Blue Cheese & Herbs

  

  January 2015 Every other Saturday, the Urban Farmer bursts through the kitchen door in his decades-old Woolrich coat and snowy boots, and he raises a green bag... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2015 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Donut o’ the Month for Jojotastic: Chocolate Glazed Whole Wheat Donut

  

  January 2015 The alarm sounds, and it’s a terrible, dreaded screech. It’s early and dark, and the days until summer vacation seem too endless to count.... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2015 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Cranberry Eggnog Cheesecake with a Whole Wheat Brownie Crust

  

  January 2015 Famed by fall and our interpretation of the first Thanksgiving (Native Americans most likely were not making relishes and chutneys in 1621), the... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2015 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Whole Wheat Chocolate Matcha Bundt Cake w/ Matcha Buttercream

  

  January 2014 When is quitting the right thing to do? Society screams and shouts, “Winners never quit, and quitters never win,” but that advice, though well... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2015 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Buckwheat Monkey Bread To Start A New Year

  

  January 2015 Rather unexpectedly, I found myself in a church on New Year’s Eve. I hadn’t come to pray or to repent, much to my family’s chagrin. I had come to... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2015 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Pumpkin-Cranberry Buckwheat Waffles w/ @WigleWhiskey Landlocked Spiced

  

  December 2014 As one who spends a lot of time crafting visual stories, it’s all too easy to straddle (read: dive over) that pencil-thin line between collector... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Whole Wheat Chocolate Gingerbread Layer Cake

  

  December 2014 It had been too long, and he had missed making music, so the Urban Farmer strummed his guitar at the dining room table, where I worked on somethin... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Chocolate Cranberry Upside Down Cake w/ @WigleWhiskey

  

  December 2014 There’s a middle-aged man in my neighborhood who lives alone. If you’re familiar with Pittsburgh vernacular, he’s what one would call a yinzer. Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Donut o’ the Month for @JoJoTastic: Powdered Whole Wheat Gingerbread

  

  December 2014 Though my ideal temperature is that of a desert, there is a big part of me that likes winter. I don’t admit this too frequently, mostly because I... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• #TBT: Spectacular Holiday Dishes

  

  December 2014 Siblings marry and disperse. Christmas day becomes a flexible date. A younger family member takes the throne at the biggest present pile. It’s mor... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Whole Wheat Cranberry Gingerbread Muffins

  

  December 2014 Do you remember the Dunkin Donuts commercial from the 90s (?), in which a man appears in various “costumes” in order to take advantage of a... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Instagram Lately: A Calming Shortcut

  

  December 2014 There’s a narrow, winding shortcut road to my neighborhood, which the locals defend fiercely. After rounds of cat-and-mouse in the limited space,... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES