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(Warning: crappy phone-quality photos ahead! Updates in raw stream-of-consciousness.)

So in my last post, I promised to tell you all about the pre-exam procrastination and post-exam celebrations that have been happening since last Monday, when I was duly locked in a room with my dissertation committee to talk about a document that honestly needs to be reappropriated as kindling. I was so drained from writing that all I wanted to do once I finished was flop down on my couch and watch an entire lifetime’s worth of Gilmore Girls on Netflix while devouring a family-size pack of cookies ‘n … Read more

 If you have been following my Instagram or Twitter accounts, you have likely heard me buzzing about the California Strawberry Festival in Oxnard. I’m so excited to finally be able to share the whole, honest, and exhilarating story with you guys! I would LOVE to hear your thoughts, so please take a chance to drop a note!

One of the immense luxuries of being a food blogger is the ability to regulate your online presence and to carefully curate the public’s access to your day-to-day activities. Unlike celebrity chefs and basically anyone whose job requires interpersonal communication, I spend most … Read more

I’d like a refund on my Time Machine, please– how is it the very last Friday of April already?! I guess the manufacturers are making up for it with some BOMB recipes this week, though, because today you’re going to drool over all the delicious links I’m sharing…

Anyone who knows me knows I am obsessed with Cynthia from Two Red Bowls. She posted this Herbed Foccacia & Pimento Romesco this week and I just about dropped out of my chair. Pimento in my foccacia? Count me in!

My recent love has been the famous “poke cake”: a luscious homemade … Read more

If the weeks of April fly by any faster, somebody had better buy me a jumbo sized pack of those sour patch gummies you get from the airport, because Ala does not fly without her gummies. Ever. Here’s another two weeks’ worth of awesome recipes and fabulous bloggers from all over the blogosphere!

It’s no wonder that this is a family favorite recipe! Michelle from Brown Eyed Baker shares this awesome recipe for Fried Dough Pastries!

I don’t know about you, but for me hummus is the nectar of the gods. Throw in some coconut Thai curry flare, like … Read more

As the Year in Review statuses saturate our Facebook news feeds and we sift through the impossible, mounting pile of recaps about friends who have gotten engaged, friends who have had babies, friends who have traveled the world, friends who spend their youthful years recording themselves at the top of the Eiffel Tower with selfie sticks: as all of these things happen, the question inevitably arises. Has anything really changed for us?

The answer might be a simple one for you to answer, or perhaps it’s really difficult, depending on what has happened in the past calendar year. I … Read more