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Fruit

Oatmeal Maple Cookies with Cranberry Marshmallow Creme

November 28, 2009

Soft and chewy homemade oatmeal maple cookies with a cranberry marshmallow creme filling made from fresh cranberries.

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Sticky Salty Sweet Homemade Granola

October 7, 2009

This homemade granola is sticky like a bar, but you eat it in pieces. Dried fruit, mixed with roasted walnuts, pecans, rolled oats, and a variety of seeds, held together with local honey, real maple syrup and brown sugar.

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Peanut Butter Pie

September 15, 2009

You can make homemade peanut butter in minutes, and this lovely peanut butter pie in under an hour. Add honey whipped cream and ripe bananas and you have dessert fit for a king.

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Fresh Figs for Breakfast

August 27, 2009

A purely Californian breakfast. Roasted fresh figs, strong cheese from Cowgirl Creamery, organic local eggs and warm bread from La Farine.

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Chocolate Coconut Pancakes

June 29, 2009

My original plan was to share with you, my readers, the exciting events and exotic foods of the Berkeley International Food Festival. The event was nothing to write home about, so I found something that was – my homemade dark chocolate and coconut pancakes with real organic maple syrup.
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Chocolate Cherry Pie

May 29, 2009

My oh my, what a decadent cherry pie. Rich dark chocolate, deep purple cherries and sweet agave nectar nestled inside a flaky butter crust, laced with finely ground graham crackers.
Here’s another thing to add to my “you can’t get this in New York” list–cheap cherries. No matter what time of year it is, cherries never [...]

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