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It’s time for a contest: welcome to the J.A. Henckels Santoku Knife Giveaway!
To ring in the new year properly (that is, to share something with you, my readers), I’m having a web raffle. The prize is a two piece J.A. Henckels hollow-edge santoku knife set, which includes both a 7″ and 5″ knife. [...]

Merry Christmas, everyone! Since I’m busy celebrating this week, I thought I would post a few inspiring holiday desserts.
I hope your holiday season has been joyful, and that the new year bring you lots of wonderful things.
Mazel tov!

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Today’s guest post comes from travel writer Melanie McMinn. Melanie runs Intrepid101, a blog dedicated to extreme travel in New Zealand for women of all sizes. Her site is awesome on all fronts… I mean how much respect do I have for a woman who jumps out of a plane and crawls on [...]

I find a lot of tantalizing food photos during my daily internet exploits, and I’ve finally decided to keep track of them. I’ve created a new Tumblr blog specifically for logging the most dizzying food porn that I come across. Check it out:
MegaNom blog on Tumblr
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Here’s another wonderful autumn dish, herbes de provence roasted potatoes and zucchini.
Continuing with my toaster oven love from last week, I’ve been baking, roasting, and toasting things for almost every meal. Being autumn (yes, we do experience a vernal season here in California), the farmer’s markets have been rife with all sorts of wonderful [...]

Having only ever had slow cooked vegan collard greens, I remember being so shocked when I learned that collards, cooked in their “traditional” form, aren’t even remotely vegetarian. Why take something so simply green and turn into something unhealthy? I was totally baffled.
So I dug around and found a few vegan collard greens [...]