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Cranberry Ice Cream with Cinnamon and Brandy
A little over a year ago, I tasted cranberry ice cream for the first time in a small little town called Hope, Alaska. It was like nothing I had ever tasted. Sweet, but tart and oh so smooth. In honor...
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Vegan Sweet Potato Casserole
This is an adaptation from sweet potato recipe from Jessie Monds Food Blog. Her creation is wonderful and quite adorable. She presents several individual baked sweet potatoes with vegan ingredients and...
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Chocolate Mousse with Dark Rum
Imma just gave me a nice bottle of Rum and it has been making me think about Thailand. I had the most amazing chocolate mousse with rum on an island right outside of bangkok. It was one of those...
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Breakfast at Imma's
A little while ago, James and I stopped at Imma's on our way back to Davis. She whipped up quite a fantastic breakfast. Who am I to say no to a breakfast that ends with cupcakes anyway? The food before...
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Honey Glazed Sweet Carrots with Sesame Seeds
I adapted this recipe from Not Your Mama's Kitchen. She has an adorable blog and you should really check it out. Its actually quite basic. Just saute the carrots in honey and add some sesame seeds at...
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I actually used this for the Superbowl, but I haven't gotten around to posting it because my schedule has been ridiculous. Combining my full school schedule, internship and job hunting is slowly...
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Rum and Orange Cupcakes
This is my very own adaptation, which I must say, I am rather proud of. First, you inhale a sting of citrus and then, as you swallow, you feel a slight burn from the rum. The amount of rum can easily...
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Lemon Drop Martini
As the sun stays out longer and you can feel the heat radiating from your body, I believe our inner child starts to thrive. Remembering the long summer nights with bare feet, I can't help but think of...
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Carrot Spice Cupcakes
There is only one seat left on the bus, and normally I'd choose to stand instead of being smashed between two unknown people, but I am carrying a rather delicate and important package. I am not worried...
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Goat Cheese Polenta with Poached Egg and Pesto
Folding my small desk back, and picking up my backpack, I squeeze past the student next to me, heading towards the front of the lecture hall. Placing my completed papers in the pile corresponding to...
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Lemon Blueberry Cream Cheese Tart with Saffron
This weekend is the Whole Earth Festival in Davis. Walking through the quad, many childhood memories from the Renaissance Fair came flooding back. There was everything from hand made ceramics, overly...
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Blueberry Tart
I have been singing along with Taylor Swift this week, as I turned 22 on Saturday. This part of my life is wrapping itself up rather nicely. I was able to see many of my UCD friends and talked to a lot...
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California Eggs Benedict
The first food I learned to make, using a kitchen appliance other than the microwave, was chocolate chip cookies. My family has a ridiculous sweet tooth and weakness to anything chocolate, and thus, if...
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Blueberry Coconut Banana Bread
Beautiful chaos is the best way to describe this loaf. I started with banana bread, but ended up adding whatever else I could find in the fridge. Beautiful chaos is also how I would describe my life...
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Eggs and Avocado Toast
For the last day of class my writing professor shared with us some last tid bits of inspiration and wisdom. First off, she emphasized the importance of reading and writing each day. Proper comma...
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Thai Coconut Sticky Rice Pudding
In Chiang Mai, Thailand, the heat sucks your insides dry, but, on the outside, the humidity makes your fingertips pickle. Across the street from my hotel, street vendors began setting up makeshift...
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Graduation Dinner Menu
Some of the dishes made have links back to the references used. If you would like more information about any of the recipes feel free to contact me at blueberryoctopie@gmail.com.AppetizersArtichoke...
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Coconut Panna Cotta with Strawberries and Cranberry Jello
It has been a little while since I have written here or had a chance to make some photo-worthy meals. Currently with out a working oven, and very little free daylight time, my cooking expeditions have...
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Apple and Chive Salad
This salad makes me pucker, but I love it all the same. Ingredients:1 bag of spinach and arugula1 apple1 avocado2 tbs. gorganzola1 sprig of chiveslemon juice (1 small lemon)cracked pepperolive oilFor...
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Favorite Mac 'N Cheese
The most difficult part about moving to a rural farm area is the lack of diversity when it comes to food and groceries. James came down to visit for a week, and we quickly exhausted all the best...
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Apple Cake with Ginger
It is 70 degrees and windy in Turlock today. It feels like just yesterday the weather was breaking 100. I don't know when fall decided to start in California's central valley, but apparently it has...
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Muir Beach and the Pelican Inn
FogBY CARL SANDBURGTHE fog comeson little cat feet.It sits lookingover harbor and cityon silent haunchesand then moves on.I was first introduced to this poem in elementary school. It eloquently...
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Turkey Legs at the Renaissance Fair
The Renaissance fair is a magical place where people go to let their imagination shine. There is everything from belly dancing to jousting, and petty zoos to taverns. We have romanticized the...
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I Have Moved!
I am now posting to my new blog, Nanny and Boogie. The new blog still has lots of fun recipes, but now I also talk about my travels. I leave for Argentina in 2 days, and will be filling Nanny and...
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