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Grilled Cheese with Prosciutto & Figs

Oh yes, it’s another fig post: see here, here and here. I love figs. Being a native Colorado girl, there wasn’t a lot of “fig-exposure” as I grew up. I first learned to love them in Munich way back in … Continue reading

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Banana Chocolate Pecan Muffins

This is what happens when you take my Grandma Salazar’s banana bread recipe, and start fiddling… Adding chocolate and nuts to banana bread isn’t cutting edge, but adding them to this particular banana bread is divine. We had only been … Continue reading

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Thyme Roasted Almonds

It was a January night in 2004. Snow quietly blanketed the streets of Munich, but we drove on with determination. We were going to a New Year’s party, and nothing was going to stop us. We picked up our friends the Kukkonens and crammed … Continue reading

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