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Fresh California Figs + A Giveaway!

We are now in the middle of fig season here in California. I remember eating my first fig when I was about 11 years old at a friends house. Her parents were Iranian immigrants and they had planted a fig tree when they bought their home in Southern California to remind them of home. The […]

The winner of the gorgeous New West KnifeWorks Santoku knife, as chosen by Random.org, is comment #217! Comment #217 was left by Kathleen. Congratulations Kathleen! I’ll be emailing you today to get your address so that I can ship off your knife to you! I can’t wait to hear how much you love the knife!

Using a good knife and acquiring good knife skills can actually make your food taste better. Using a bad knife or poor skills can damage the texture of the item you are cutting, or cause it to loose moisture. Because of these issues, I’m starting a new knife series here on LFM where I will […]

Meet Daylon. Daylon was born on July 8, 2009 with Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa (JEB) Herlitz type and was given less than a year to live. He’s now 9 months old. Daylon is my friend Jennifer’s little boy. Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) is a connective tissue disease where the skin layers lack the protein anchors that hold […]

This has been such a fun giveaway for me, because I have loved reading about all of your favorite Italian dishes! What was funny, was that on Tuesday I made Spaghetti alla Carbonara (using a recipe from one of my most trusted Italian food resources) for dinner, and so many of your comments that day […]

The last time I made lasagna completely from scratch (including the noodles) was over a year ago for the March 2009 Daring Bakers Challenge. I have hand rolled pasta my whole life. That’s not to say that I’ve been making LOTS of homemade pasta. I have to admit that hand rolling my noodles has been […]

Cranberry Apricot Scones Adapted from Fruit Scones, p. 331, Jamie’s Food Revolution Makes 10 scones 1/2 cup dried cranberries 1/2 cup dried apricots, cut into small pieces orange juice, for soaking 4 cups self-rising flour 1/2 cup butter 2 teaspoons baking powder 2 large eggs 1/3 cup milk, plus a little extra for brushing pinch […]

I love the days where I get to announce the winner(s) of a giveaway! It feels like Christmas! Thank you to everyone who entered—I was getting so hungry reading all of your entries! You mentioned so many of my favorites (sushi, bibimbap, and biryani to name a few), and so many that I now want […]

The Fuji family is currently out of town. We just got to Utah earlier today to visit family for Easter. We actually left yesterday, but a snow storm in Southern Utah convinced us to stop for the night in St. George, Utah, and finish the drive this morning. To keep you busy while I’m recooperating […]

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