The last couple of years my dear friend B. has sent me a divine birthday treat, courtesy of his friend’s AMAZING company, Allison’s Gourmet. I’ve now had the brownies and the fudge. And OMG, so good. The ingredients are organic and vegan (though anyone I’ve shared these with is like, “Really, vegan? But this tastes…

The sparkling Janice Taylor of the Our Lady of Weight Loss blog feels strongly that skipping breakfast is not a good idea. She further believes that dehydration can cause irritability and headaches. To solve both problems (feed two birds with one seed, as it were), she offers a lovely, hydrating breakfast smoothie recipe: Ingredients: 1…

Again? It was spinach, then peanuts, and now pistachios. After a batch of trail mix tested postive for salmonella, about a million pounds of the apparent pistachio culprit were recalled from stores. And consumers are now on “pistachio watch.” According to a CBS news article, “Right now, the FDA is advising Americans not to eat pistachios but not…

I’m not sure you can see (or smell, too bad for you) the enticing black specs suspended in the glaze that floats over this Meyer lemon-thyme pound cake.  But trust me, they’re there – and they come from vanilla bean paste, my new best friend and the perfect thing to discuss on Foodie Friday! My…

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