Chocolate Oatmeal Lace Cookies

here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart i carry your heart(i […]

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Apple Crostata

Something about the Fall air is making me restless. I am profoundly aware of my longing to move on. Not from a person or even a place, but from a state of being. I’m sick of this lackluster drifting from day to day. I’m tired of my own apathy. I want to embrace that nagging inside […]

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On Going Home (Chocolate Pavlova with Raspberries)

You have to remember where you came from and who you have been to truly appreciate who you have become and where you are going. I’m overjoyed to be on my island again, although I recognize it doesn’t belong to me anymore and that’s okay. But this little island off the coast of California will […]

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Rainy Days and Chocolate Pear Scones

There’s something about the rain that settles me.  It’s as if the sky has been gathering all my anxiety, stress, and sadness until it couldn’t bare it anymore and all that pressure is pouring from the sky.  It comes as a great relief.  I can finally take a step back from all the chaos and breathe.  I […]

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Banana Cream Pie

There are two types of Sundays. The first kind, I know all too well. The Sunday I dread. The one where despite all efforts, I find myself completely incapable of productivity and Monday looms in the distance making it all the more difficult to enjoy the end of the much needed weekend. It’s that funny […]

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Chocolate Brownie Cookies

Winter break has come and gone and here I find myself more than halfway through Winter Quarter.  Needless to say, I’ve been falling behind in my blogging ventures and school is chugging along as usual.  Life is filled with good days and bad and I’m starting to realize that it’s up to me to take charge […]

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Chocolate Frangipane Tart

Now that I’m back in the Eastern Sierras for a few weeks, I’m forced to deal with high altitude.  Attached are some adjustments I made on my second attempt at making this tart after the first one decided to explode.  Hope that helps for those of you who know what 8,000 feet can do to […]

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Homemade Girl Scout Cookies: Samoas

Hi.  I know, I’ve been away for two weeks now.  That is truly awful, but I promise I have a good excuse.  My life has erupted into complete and utter chaos.  There’s been some issues with my housing situation and because of that… Honey can’t live here anymore.  I want to cry just typing it […]

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Homemade Granola

Fall approaches slowly from behind, wrapping all-consuming arms around you.  They warm your body like a wool sweater, protecting you from the bite of the season’s first cold breeze.  You turn to face your old friend, feeling a bittersweet aching in your chest in contest to the loss of summer’s inhibitions.  But you walk steadily; ready […]

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Adventures with Honey

As you may or may not know, my oven is broken.  And so, I don’t have any tempting pastries to share with you.  But, while we wait, I have a few photos of a little walk I took with Honey this weekend.  We walked straight from my house to the beach.  Despite it’s quirks, I […]

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