Erlend and I have been together for many years (I think we may have just passed our nine year anniversary of dating, lol), and our Thanksgiving tradition is that we don’t really have one. Neither of us come from families that celebrated the holiday in the traditional American way (my parents aren’t American, his are… […]
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pain perdu with vanilla figs
It’s been about two and a half weeks since I turned in the photos for #weeknightbakingbook, and I’m happy/sorry to report that I have done absolutely nothing in that time. The first week was intentional; I gave myself that time off to recover. And recover I did — I stopped waking up at 6AM to […]
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I often times wish that I could build a city that would take all my favorite parts and elements of all the places I’ve lived and combine them all in one dreamy utopia. My city would have the greenery and space of Portland, the weather of the Bay Area, the diversity and culture of New […]
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I have a lot of ideas for my blog, most of which either a) I forget about or b) I don’t do anything about because I don’t have the time, motivation, or some combination of the two. Like that time I was going to start a spinoff tumblr where I featured photos of myself eating […]
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Whenever I bake a loaf of banana bread, I immediately binge on half the loaf and almost make myself sick. I push it away after feeling a little cracked out from all that sugar and promptly declare that I’m doing something healthy next, like going on a run or something. The half eaten banana bread […]
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Earlier this week, I posted that I was in San Francisco for a few days. It’s always strange to visit a place that you used to call home. I’ve mentioned before that I spent a few years in the city — six months after graduating from college in Portland, I landed my first full-time […]
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