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I recently obtained a copy of Alice Medrich’s cookbook Pure Dessert. I love it for two reasons–one, many of the recipes use whole grains and two, Medrich does a wonderful job of explaining how and why each ingredient is used in a particular recipe. I’ve already had great success with with Medrich’s Whole Wheat Sablés–the [...]

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Almost every Sunday I spend most of the day cooking a week’s worth of meals for B. Because I don’t get home from work until well after he does, we more often than not eat dinner separately. And since I don’t want him to be feasting on junk for dinner, I prefer to make wholesome [...]

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Day Two in Seattle started out at the same place Day One did–Pike Place Market. We headed to the famous Lowell’s Restaurant & Bar–delicious diner fare, three floors of seating and the most magnificent views of Puget Sound and the Olympic mountains. B ordered the Farmer’s Breakfast–three eggs with ham, bacon and sausage link or [...]

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We picked Seattle as our weekend getaway mostly because we were sick of the finicky weather in Chicago. After a wretched winter (70 days of which had some snowfall), the Pacific Northwest sounded like the perfect place to head to for a few days…even if there was a possibilty of rain. Our first stop on [...]

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