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Banana Almond Medjool Date Shake

When it comes to food, many of your favorites likely have their own holiday. You already know that I observe National Pie Day on January 23rd, but what else is out there? Ice Cream For Breakfast Day? Yep, it’s a holiday (and one that my mom’s side of the family observes religiously each year). Pancake […]

The Mediterranean Diet, consisting of higher levels of olive oil, vegetables, fruit and fish, has been becoming increasingly more popular as more and more scientific studies are published linking a causal relationship between eating a Mediterranean diet and prevention of disease. Then, in September of 2013, researchers from the University of Exeter Medical School in Britain released […]

I am super sad to see Pie Week come to a close. So sad, in fact, that you may just start seeing a pie a month around here. Plus, we have Pi(e) Day to look forward on March 14th, so all is not lost! As National Pie Day comes to a close, marking the end […]

Happy National Pie Day! To celebrate today, I thought it would be appropriate to share a recipe from the woman who brought me into this world. My mom and I made this pie, a White Chocolate, Orange, and Raspberry dream, when we were visiting for Christmas. I have many memories of watching my mom make […]

I’ve been dreaming about lemon icebox pie since my first taste. In 2003 Mr. Fuji and I ate Thanksgiving dinner with his dad’s in-laws in Jackson, Tennessee. For dessert I ate a slice of his mother-in-law’s lemon icebox pie, a classic Southern confection made up of a buttery graham cracker crust, a tart, creamy filling […]

Have you ever said something about someone and it turns out they were standing right behind you while you were saying it? I have. On the first day of Camp Blogaway in 2012, a friend and I were standing at the networking table, which usually includes promotional materials for bloggers and brands. There was a […]

Today, my sweet-as-pie friend Liz, who writes one of my favorite blogs, Liz the Chef, has joined the ranks of the Pie Brigade and is sharing her mom’s recipe for Wet Bottom Shoo-Fly Pie. Hop on over to her site to find out what flies and wet bottoms have to do with this delicious pie […]

American English is filled with idioms relating to pie, such as, “as American as apple pie,” and “eat humble pie,” or “cow pie.” I guess we love our pies! Although the historians trace the origins of pie loosely back to the galettes (free form pies) cooked over hot coals made by the ancient Egyptians during […]

I love to read. It can be anything from science fiction, to the classics, or from a good murder mystery to a biography. I love it all and everything in between. I especially love to read cookbooks. Yep, when I find a good one, I read it cover to cover. I realized last night, as I […]

Although our holidays were wonderful, they did not go quite as planned. Squirrel came down with a stomach virus a few days before the start of Christmas break. We left to drive to California 4 days later, thinking we were in the clear, because Squirrel had survived the stomach virus and no one else appeared […]

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