FIG, MINT & NECTARINE MINI YOGURT TARTS.

What a month it has been. My hosting server was hacked. My hosting account shut down (thrice!). My phone died. My computer faced its own set of confusion and woes. Any self-respecting California girl would throw up her hands, call…
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TAHINI & FETA LOADED SWEET POTATO FRIES.

Can we all intone these four precious words in unison like some kind of entranced bliss-fed cult: LOADED SWEET POTATO FRIES. I know. It just sends you into near catatonic states of excitement, doesn’t it? And what if I told…
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BLACK PEPPER & HONEY RICOTTA STUFFED FIGS.

I recently had an (obviously heated) debate amongst friends regarding which foods are like sex. Not sexiest, mind you, but literally, in and of themselves, reminiscent of sex. It’s an important distinction (you feel me)—these foods are entities so lush…
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GREEN ICE CREAM!

Green. Green is home, the lush carpeting of grass beneath my body as I am seven, twelve, dreaming of falling in love, eighteen, falling in love, twenty-three, heartbroken, twenty-five, grieving, earth holding me as I learn to know myself. Green keeps me…
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4TH OF JULY DOUBLE BERRY CREAM PIE!

Though I could never blindly declare that all our nation’s woes were suddenly absolved, I will say this: It’s been an ok week to be an American. Last Friday’s gay marriage ruling was a massive victory for so many I…
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CANTALOUPE COCONUT LIME SORBET.

It’s said that the sensory experience of eating—the scents, the textures, the tastes—has transportive powers and the capacity to transform even the heaviest sadness into beauty. (Need evidence? Reference the epic Como Agua Para Chocolate—Like Water for Chocolate.) So what about…
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CHOCOLATE CHERRY SMOOTHIE BOWL.

  Each year, I’m shocked by the steady march of the seasons—offended, almost, by their nonchalance in encroaching upon the blank slate of my year. Summer? I scoff. Already? Impossible! And yet here are the peaches, the cherries, the ripe warmth of sunshine early…
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BANANA BRÛLÉE YOGURT WITH BLACK SESAME BRITTLE.

Good morning! There are two blank canvases that tend to inspire me most frequently in the kitchen: Bread and yogurt. (Coincidence that they’re both breakfast foods? Perhaps not!) Both are perfect tabula rasa (rasi plural?) for any culinary inclinations I…
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