Almond Acorn Cake

One afternoon on the way to yoga, I saw some acorns scattered across the sidewalk. I started thinking.Who eats acorns, other than the squirrels?I did a bit of research and discovered the protein, carbohydrate, and fat packed “nut” was actually quite popular during both WWI and WWII in Korea and Japan. It was consumed in…

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Blood Orange Ricotta Cream Cake

Blood oranges are absolutely spectacular. Glorious. Beautiful. Delicious. Bright and bursting orange peels reveal and interior of brilliant scarlet sticky juice. blood. The blood orange is a variety of orange (Citrus × sinensis) with crimson, almost-blood-colored flesh. The fruit is roughly the same size as an average orange, but sometimes can be smaller or larger; its skin is usually pitted, but can be…

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Cauliflower Cake

I love kitchen things. A dreamy afternoon for me could simply be a digital date with the virtual shopping cart of Williams Sonoma, or browsing the floor of Sur La Table. I know I’m not alone in this little obsession with high quality kitchen toys. I adore my kaleidoscope collection of colorful Le Creuset, copper…

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Surprisingly More

Granted and blessed with the opportunity to attend a food blogger conference over the weekend, I stepped into the doors of Vida Vegan Con amazingly grateful, excited to learn, and surprisingly unaware of all that I was due to encounter. It’s very clear from reading most of what I compose that I am not, by…

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