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I’m trying to cope with the fact that it’s no longer the weekend.  We got back last night from an amazing weekend trip to Santa Barbara with friends and I am definitely not ready to be awake or working at the present time. (Pillow in my office, can haz?) For…

Although San Diego is typically in a state of perma-spring weather we can’t help but get excited when the flowers start blooming and the hillsides look just a little greener and brighter in March. Dave and I actually moved to San Diego in March, and we drove cross-country from Michigan,…

If you are also feeling like you doubled your body weight in the last 1-2 weeks, you might also like to join the January “let’s only eat salads” club. But if you are also feeling like extreme deprivation (i.e. kale smoothies) is not quite what the doctor ordered, I’d definitely you…

So after eating so much gingerbread cake I felt the need to have something healthy in my life this December.  I.e. a plate of fish and lentils.  How much healthier can it get? If you say a plate of kale with chia seeds you are henceforth banned from The Gourmet…

This is one of those incredibly tasty but also incredibly easy meals that exemplifies all things summer.  It is also one of those recipes that you have, have, HAVE to find the best quality ingredients money can buy.  The whole point of simplistic recipes is to let the pureness of…

Let’s just start today’s conversation with the bold statement: I am addicted to going to restaurants. I know. I know. What kind of food blogger am I? Shouldn’t I be cooking all day and all night? Let me just start by explaining my philosophy about food (that I typically pronounce to…

So… I’ve been just waiting for the perfect time to share this recipe.  But, I can wait no longer!  This recipe is inspired by our recent trip to the Pacific Northwest, aka the Portland Adventure Series.  Salmon and blackberries, you say?  Does that really work together? Fear not my friends,…

As you may have gathered, I tend to have intense food obsessions.  My current obsession is hazelnuts in salads.  Prior to a few months ago I had never had hazelnuts in salads.  I loved them in desserts, but never considered that they would make an excellent alternative to the overdone…