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Okay, so this is not the most season-appropriate dish ever but if you lived in Portland, you'd understand. We have been rainy and a little cold, although today and tomorrow are promising to be nice, sunny and *gasp* Summer-ish! If you do have a day that is not so hot, this is a great thing …

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Well, we celebrated Memorial Day with an old-school Chinese-American feast. Yes, weird. I know. I was just in the mood to make fortune cookies. And once you are making fortune cookies, you start to look for recipes online like Moo Goo Gai Pan and Vegetarian Egg Rolls. The Moo Goo Gai Pan was really good …

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Fennel pollen is kind of expensive but also really amazing. There really isn't a great substitute for it, so if you've got a little extra money, I'd invest in some. So fragrant. Kind of like if you mixed fennel with curry and some kind of mystery tasty ingredient. I've seen it online at Amazon. I …

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I once spent the better part of a day making a Rick Bayless Mole Sauce recipe. Hours and hours and the end result was...fine. Which I'm pretty sure had much more to do with my execution than the recipe, but there it is. I wasn't in love with it and jwa actually didn't like it. …

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Here's a recipe that I remember making multiple times last Summer. Why didn't I blog about it sooner? Who knows, but here it is now. I made this last week and instantly remembered why I made it so much last year. It's really good. I love the salad. But, keep in mind, imho, the salad …

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