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Coconut Cake with Fluffy White Frosting

I developed this coconut cake in an effort to make a delicious cake in record time. SUPER easy cake, fluffy white frosting, and sweet coconut covering the whole thing make this a winner. Here’s the trick: I use a white cake mix. After tinkering with several scratch recipes, this one was just better. And as…

Rose Petal Barbie Cake

A beautiful, surprisingly simple celebration cake for the Barbie lover! I created this cake several years ago for my daughter’s birthday, per her request. Made from scratch, with simple vanilla frosting, covered in luscious hot pink rose petals and a few pale pink sugar pearls – a tasty, lovely cake. Below is the larger batch…

Mermaid Popcorn

This is a riff on a familiar treat – popcorn. It’s a crunchy, umami-laced snack that any mermaid would love. The addition of the common Japanese seasoning furikake makes gives it a great taste. I find that grinding the furikake using a mortar and pestle helps to evenly distribute the flavor onto the popcorn. You…

Beet, Arugula, and Gorgonzola salad

Here is a simple salad with a complexity of favors that belies its ease to make. It includes spicy arugula, subtly sweet and earthy beets, rich walnuts, and tangy Gorgonzola. I love that it has such an interesting interplay of ingredients that just like being together. Beet, Arugula, and Gorgonzola salad (serves 2) 1 quart…

Asparagus + Chicken + Quinoa = the Beauty of One

I just returned from a multiple city trip to look at colleges for my daughter. Though we ate fabulous restaurant meals, I found myself longing for fresh, simple food centered on the seasonal produce I find here in the Bay Area. One of the college students we ate with was a California girl living in…

Currant Scones

Many years ago a dear friend and I set out on a trip around the world. We quite literally circled the globe, heading west across the vast Pacific Ocean from California until we came full circle a couple months later. Wherever we visited, one of the things I loved most was learning what people ate….