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Monday Meals: Salad in a Jar
One of my favorite things about summertime is evening picnics. The kids and I usually have several picnics a week at lunchtime since we are fortunate enough to live where the weather is nice enough...
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Monday Meals: Pork Chops with Peaches
Peach season has officially arrived at the Training Taste Buds household. We have a white peach tree in our yard, and I spend a few weeks each summer trying to let as few as possible go to waste. We...
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Monday Meals: Smoked Salmon Pasta with Lemony-Ricotta Sauce
I hope everyone had a lovely Fourth of July weekend. My parents were in town, so we had an activity-filled week with museum and beach trips; blueberry, raspberry, and peach picking; gardening; and...
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Cheese & Cracker Stacks
As I mentioned in an earlier post, we have a white peach tree in our yard, and this year I've been preserving a lot of the peaches by drying them...with a little help from my favorite almost...
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Kid-sized Sushi Rolls
We love sushi in our family. Going out for sushi is high on the kid-friendly restaurant list for us. There is this great little restaurant in town with the sweetest owner who brings the kids a...
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Prosciutto, Cheese, and Melon on a Stick
Sometimes it takes only a little extra effort to get kids to try new things, or just to get them away from requesting their favorite lunch, day after day. Ewan would eat peanut butter, honey, and...
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Cornmeal Waffles with Crispy Pork
I celebrated a birthday earlier this month and am now the proud owner of a new waffle maker. My previous waffle maker broke years ago, and I decided not to refill the space it was taking in our...
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Buckwheat Crepes with Smoked Salmon and Ricotta
Crepes have long been a favorite of mine. I remember buying a crepe pan as a teenager at a garage sale very soon after the first time I cooked one in a cooking class. Of course, nothing beats the...
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Dried Hachiya Persimmons
This isn't so much a recipe as a sharing of knowledge and the beauty that is persimmons. We have some very generous neighbors who have been sharing fruit with us during the past month. We've been...
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Persimmon Cookies
The persimmons started to get ripe a little early in Santa Barbara this year, so I've already made these cookies a couple of times. They are definite favorites with my son Ewan, and even Isla liked...
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