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Crepes with Homemade Caramel and Chocolate Sauce

I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine’s Day! Graham and I have a tradition of cooking for each other on Valentines. It started when Graham invited me over to his house shortly after we started dating and made a stir-fry for me for Valentine’s Day dinner. Suffice it to say I was impressed [...]

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Chocolate Pecan Pie

Perhaps I should have titled this post, “Chocolate Pecan Pie with a Twist,” because with vodka in the crust and Kahlua in the filling, this pie sounds more like a cocktail than a dessert. While it may sound like a tasty mixed-drink, let me assure you that you cannot taste the vodka [...]

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Special Guest Post: Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting

What a week!! I had two big midterms last week and I am still recovering from all the studying and test-related stress! Luckily, our friend Suzanne offered to prepare a post for us. Suzanne is one of our good friends from UC Berkeley (where I got my masters—I guess I just love being [...]

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Apple Crisp and Brown Sugar-Bourbon Ice Cream

The leaves have started to turn and there is a chill in the air that signals we are deep into fall and most important—deep into honey crisp apple season! I’ve talked about my love of honey crisp apples before, and of course couldn’t resist buying a huge bag of them when I [...]

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Pumpkin-Apple Bread

I took a quick study break this weekend to do a little baking. It has been a while since I’ve had even the time to think about cooking, between studying for my five different classes in biochemistry, bio-statistics, nutrition policy, research methods, and doctoral research – they are definitely keeping me busy! [...]

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