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School Night Dinner: Chicken with Tomatoes and Olives

January 25, 2012

Thank you to Hunt’s for sponsoring this post and encouraging my culinary skills! Visit Hunt’s Signature Recipe Collection to find tons of delicious ideas for using Hunt’s tomatoes in your meals.

I’m can’t put my finger on exactly what’s changed this year, but now that Wyatt is in second grade we are really busy during the [...]

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Three Ways to Eat California Avocados

December 11, 2011

Thank you to California Grown for encouraging me to connect with California growers and encouraging California consumers to “Choose California Grown” when they can.

There are a lot of things I like about living in California — my husband, the weather, the ocean — but the fantastic local produce is really high on my list. I [...]

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Holiday Entertaining for Lazy People Who Never Entertain

December 6, 2011

Thanks to Duncan Hines for sponsoring my writing. There’s no limit to the baking possibilities, so grab your favorite Duncan Hines mix and Comstock or Wilderness fruit fillings and Bake On! www.duncanhines.com.

My husband and I are horrible entertainers.
It’s not that we don’t like having our friends over — we do! And it’s not that we [...]

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A Few Tips for Fighting Winter Colds and Flu, plus a Safeway Gift Card Giveaway!

November 29, 2011

A few weeks ago, I attended an event at my local Safeway store centered on winter health and wellness. Along with a few other bloggers, I walked the aisles of Safeway with a pharmacist and a registered dietician who offered us tips on how to avoid catching winter colds and flu and how to recover [...]

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Pie Treats!

November 21, 2011

Thanksgiving is just a few days away and I think it’s fair to say that the holiday baking season has officially started. For me, the only acceptable Thanksgiving dessert is pie. PIE, I say! And with all this pie baking going on in the States right now, I want to be sure — absolutely sure [...]

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Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal

October 19, 2011

Autumn in the San Francisco bay area is weird. We typically spend much of the summer pretending it’s warm while we shiver in sweat shirts, and then just as the kids go back to school and the leaves start to change we’re hit with a spell of warm weather. In the last three weeks the [...]

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