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Matisse & Jacks Bake at Home Energy bars A cool thing about having a food blog is that every so often people offer to send me stuff to try and write about. This is what happened here -- energy bars. Or, in my case, breakfast bars and healthy cookies. Matisse and Jacks Bake at Home …

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Wow! Two posts in two days! Amazing! Uh, anyway, lately, I have mentioned to jwa (threatened?) that we will be eating more fish -- at least two times a week. The problem is, we have expensive, fancy-pants fish tastes. Mostly, we both like salmon, tuna and halibut and that's pretty much our fish repertoire. Now, …

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Over Labor Day Weekend, jwa and I headed to the coast to celebrate his birthday. We had a really nice time and a dinner that was so good I'm pretty positive that I'll be making it again soon. It's always a little challenging working in an unfamiliar kitchen but this worked out pretty well. I …

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This month's Sugar High Friday challenge is hosted by The Passionate Cook and the theme is going local. So, being in the Pacific Northwest and all, I thought coffee. And the one coffee dessert I have always wanted to make but never have is Tiramisu! So, Sunday afternoon, jwa and I walked to one of …

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As the title suggests, this is a recipe by Ina Garten. I saw her make them last week and immediately went to see if we had all of the components on hand. We did, except for some peanuts. No problem though, as we had some trail mix in the fridge. Trail mix with peanuts! Just …

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