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Cherry Almond Breakfast Cookies

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Happy New Year!  As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not into resolutions.  But I do love the feeling of a fresh year laid out ahead of me.  So many possibilities!  So many things I’d like to do this year! But before I get started with all that I’ll need a good breakfast.

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And that’s usually where it breaks bad for me.  I’m not much of a breakfast person.  Like, at all.  What?  You’re saying, “Um, duh, because you have yet to post a single breakfast recipe, Christina!”?  Well you’re right.  I don’t dislike breakfast foods per say, they are just not so much my thing.  Also, when you have a perfectly delightful, adorable, sweeter-than-peaches 10 month old WHO IS STARTING TO WALK/RUN AWAY FROM YOU, you really don’t have much time to sit down to a decent breakfast anyway.  Enter these breakfast cookies. Continue reading

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Bombay Cheese Dip

Usually when I do one of these posts, I think of a cute little story to tell you, or an amusing tale of how I came upon the recipe, blah, blah, blah.  But, this dip needs so such story.  Because I could fill pages and pages telling you about how, why, and in what sense this is one of the best, most unexpected things I’ve ever had.  Apart from that, I’ve been promising you a recipe to use some of that homemade chutney from the other day, and now I’m delivering. 

Ok, Ok, so quick background.  This recipe came to me, as so many do, from my mom.  Aren’t moms great?  I mean, my mom is great for a lot of reasons, but one of the biggies is that she is fearless in the kitchen and is always willing to try recipes that a lot of people wouldn’t.  This recipe, for example.  I would never in a million years have given this a second look.  Because, well… it looks weird.  But my mom, kitchen wonder that she is, gave it a chance.  And thank goodness she did.  Because now I can share it with all of you, and we can all enjoy the amazingness that is this dip.  Continue reading

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