Raspberry Almond Coffee Cake

by Jess on May 14, 2013

in Breakfast, Dessert, Favorites, Recipes

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Before this coffee cake, I thought that I wasn’t really a coffee cake person.  It’s not that I dislike it – I mean, who doesn’t like cake for breakfast?  There were just so many things I would like to have for breakfast even more.  But Frank and I have fallen into a tea routine – [...]

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Corkscrew Pasta with Asparagus and Crispy Bacon

by Jess on May 13, 2013

in Recipes

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A few things have been happening around here lately. Spring-themed things. It started when Frank bought a pair of seersucker pants.  I picked him up at a coffee shop on Friday after work, and felt an overwhelming desire to buy a big hat and find us some mint juleps. For the next week I put [...]

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Creamy Chocolate Coconut Layer Bars

May 9, 2013
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Thai class. Learning to speak Thai has been, in a word, humbling. The Thai language continues to elude me, but seeing as I do live here, I’m not giving up any time soon. I was sitting in my language class this week, feeling utterly lost, and craving chocolate. Because isn’t chocolate an obvious solution for [...]

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The Little Things: Long Weekend

May 7, 2013
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Monday was Coronation Day in Thailand, so we had one of those long, leisurely holiday weekends.  We kicked it off with post-work drinks at a new spot high over the city. I was so smitten with the view that I dropped my purse on the ground and broke the entire bottle of kalamata olives I [...]

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Ricotta Gnocchi with Herbed Butter and Bacon

May 6, 2013
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A few years ago a group of women gathered for a bachelorette party. It wasn’t an entirely traditional bachelorette party, and we began it in what was not an entirely traditional sort of way. Making gnocchi. The bride-to-be, my good friend Sarah, is an excellent cook. One of our final dinners before moving to Bangkok [...]

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Black Bean and Goat Cheese Enchilada Skillet

April 30, 2013
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I sort of assumed that writing about what I eat for dinner would mean I would never struggle with the question – “what’s for dinner?”.  Surely, after a year or two of writing a food blog, I’d have built up enough of a repertoire that I could easily come up with an answer to that [...]

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Mango Lassi

April 26, 2013
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My ode to mangos last week rendered me incapable of passing the fruit without buying some.  (Which, of course, is a pretty common occurrence around here.)  I never had strong feelings about mango before I lived in Thailand.  Now I love them more every day. I ran yesterday morning and picked up these beauties before breakfast.  All [...]

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Southwestern Meatballs in Easy Adobo Sauce

April 22, 2013
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There are few things as satisfying as hitting snooze on a Monday morning. Except, perhaps, hitting snooze on a Monday morning during a raucous thunderstorm. And then hitting it a few times after that. And thus began my week. How is yours going so far? I’m going to make this short and sweet tonight because [...]

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