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Leftover Easter Egg Salad

Ingredients for easter egg salad.I know I can’t be the only one today googling ‘how long do hard boiled eggs keep?’. In case you are one of those people googling too, properly stored hardboiled eggs will last from 1 to 1.5 weeks.
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Posted on April 3, 2016July 14, 2016Author ChristinCategories FoodTags holiday

Last-Minute Meyer Lemon Hamantaschen

The finished Meyer Lemon Curd Hamantaschen ready to be eaten!When we had a baby I was insistent that we celebrate all our shared holidays as a family. ALL OF THEM. My significant other was alarmed, until he realized that when I said: ‘celebrate’, what I meant was: ‘eat treats’.
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Posted on March 24, 2016April 3, 2016Author ChristinCategories Food, lemons, meyer lemonTags cooking1 Comment on Last-Minute Meyer Lemon Hamantaschen

Meyer Lemon Shortbread

Finished shortbread on a plate. Have I said anything about lemons recently? No? Well, that changes now with the perfect way to ruin your weight-related New Year’s resolutions: Meyer Lemon Shortbread.
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Posted on January 17, 2016April 3, 2016Author ChristinCategories Food, lemonsTags baking, lemons

Onigiri: Delicious Cheap Lunch

One piece of salmon onigiri on a plate. A salmon onigiri is my idea of lunch heaven. Onigiri  are Japanese stuffed rice balls that often come wrapped in nori seaweed and (lucky us) are commonly found in California supermarkets.  They are delicious, compact, portable, keep well, and are relatively healthy. Seaweed counts as a vegetable right?
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Posted on December 7, 2015February 10, 2016Author ChristinCategories Food, lunch

Life Gave Me Lemons

When life gives you lemons...take them to work and put them in a bowl.

Walk into any office break room in the Bay Area and chances are you will find a bowl of homegrown lemons (or worse, a plastic bag of lemons) sitting on the counter with a note saying, “FREE!”
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Posted on November 23, 2015February 10, 2016Author cheerful_adminCategories Food, lemons, workTags lemons
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