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Homemade Hot Chocolate with Almond Milk

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Steph and I have been getting into the holiday spirit these last few days.  For both of us, that has involved MAKING Christmas gifts for the special peeps in our lives.  I opted for a BIG batch of Maple & Honey Granola.  Steph went with Homemade Almond Butter. It got me thinking about other fun DIY holiday treats – little [...]

Persimmons

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We have been knee-deep in persimmons these last couple weeks.  Certainly, a delicious problem to have.   Good friends recently gifted us with a bag full, straight off the tree at their family home in Santa Cruz.  And the very next day, our CSA delivery included four more. Needless to say, I didn’t have a lot of persimmon growing up in [...]

How to Peel a Pomegranate

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For years, I avoided pomegranates.  It’s not that I didn’t like them because I did.  And do still.  It’s just that I had NO IDEA what to do with them.  There was something incredibly intimidating about whole pomegranates.  Something that scared me away.  Getting to those delicious seeds seemed like a near impossible task.  It was much easier to settle [...]