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Chocolate Coconut Pancakes

June 29, 2009
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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. Once upon a time there was a man and [...]

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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 [...]

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Italian Hazelnut Cookies

March 12, 2009

Here is my question – how does one become an exceptional baker when she is married to a man who shuns sweets? While I cannot call my baking exceptional, my workaround for this household dilemma –  besides eating all the cookies myself – was to create some recipes with less sweet and more of, well, [...]

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