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Hot Cross Buns (with a hint of orange)

Hot Cross Buns (with a hint of orange)
Easter is significantly less fun when you have a major statistics test looming in the very near future, but we made the most of the morning with hot cross buns, Monte Cristo sandwiches, and rosé sangria. For now let's just focus on the hot cross buns. Apparently hot cross buns are super popular on Good Friday with all types of lore surrounding...
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Cadbury Creme Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies

Cadbury Creme Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies
Stuffed cookies are currently one of my favorite things! There's nothing better than biting into a cookie fresh from the oven and getting a melty surprise in the middle. These are similar in idea to the salted caramel chocolate chip cookies, but with a slightly different chocolate chip cookie recipe that ended up with my puffier cookies (good...
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Top Pot Glazed Rings and Apple Fritters

Top Pot Glazed Rings and Apple Fritters
I'm not sure if it was because we were following a Top Pot recipe that we got to eat ridiculously fresh from the fryer, or simply the fact that we got to truly feel and taste the love that went into making these doughnuts, but these doughnuts were the best we've ever had. We got up at 7AM on Sunday to make these babies, but weren't eating our...
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California Roll Sandwiches

California Roll Sandwiches
This was really the simplest of meals inspired by a basic California sushi roll. We made sure we used real crab, not imitation crab, because we aren't really fans of the super cheap California rolls. Basically you make a crab salad, but amp up the Asian flavor with a little bit of soy sauce and liberally add avocado to the top. Instead of rice,...
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Caprese Quesadillas

Caprese Quesadillas
Caprese quesadillas are seriously one of the most simple dishes you can make for dinner. Even on one of those nights you really don't feel like cooking, these aren't really any more difficult to make than whatever else you make have been considering. You heat a griddle, assemble some quesadillas, and grill. It's as easy as that. Dustin was...
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LA Cookie Challenge: The Final Bracket Rundown

LA Cookie Challenge: The Final Bracket Rundown
With March Madness coming to an end this past week (and brackets being busted), it's only fitting that our Cookie Challenge comes to conclusion this week. Surprisingly enough, Dustin and I didn't disagree very much throughout the weekly face-offs, which is interesting given our different cookie preferences (thick and soft versus thin and...
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Greek Lamb Tacos

Greek Lamb Tacos
It has been a long time since we've done anything with the Mediterranean flavors we love so much— Kalamata olives, feta, tzatziki and the like. Dustin whipped up a quick tzatziki sauce with greek yogurt, cucumber, and lemon juice early in the day to let the flavors meld (definitely some of the best tzatziki we've had outside of a restaurant),...
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Orange Poppyseed Bread

Orange Poppyseed Bread
This has to be one of my favorite quick bread recipes that I've made in a long time. Take lemon poppyseed bread and replace the lemony goodness with orange and you have this perfect breakfast treat. After eating if for breakfast three mornings in a row, it reminds me of something you'd get from Starbucks, thickly sliced, citrusy and fragrant,...
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Cream Sherry Gnocchi with Chanterelles

Cream Sherry Gnocchi with Chanterelles
Last spring when we went on our visit to wine country in Eastern Washington, we came back with a nice bottle of sherry. We finally decided to crack it open for cooking and for sipping after dinner. We wanted a good recipe to showcase the sherry, and since these chanterelle mushrooms we picked up at the farmer's market are supposed to soak up the...
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LA Cookie Challenge: Thyme Cafe vs. Cookie Good

LA Cookie Challenge: Thyme Cafe vs. Cookie Good
We attempted to have the perfect picnic in Will Rogers State Park— a state historic park that is actually dog friendly and has a huge lawn on which to picnic and work on our obedience training homework with Bella. The weather didn't cooperate for a perfect picnic, but was rather chilly and windy. Despite that, our sandwiches from Thyme Cafe were...
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