I’m not sure what it is about chocolate cookies and vanilla cream, but my obsession with these cookies haven’t waned since I was at least six years old. There’s just something so divine about the crunchiness of the chocolate cookie and the dreamy, sugary-sweetness of the thin layer of cream sandwiched between those two chocolate cookies. What is it about these packaged and processed cookies that I love so much? I truly have NO...
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Mmmmm. I love cheesecake. Cheesecake loves me. I love ANYTHING cheesecake, let me count the ways… There is my favorite childhood blueberry cheesecake cups, Cheesecake Factory’s pumpkin cheesecake and vanilla bean cheesecake, Japanese rare cheesecake from any type of Asian bakery, anything cheesecake (including cream cheese filled pastries) from Amandine Patisserie in Santa Monica, 85 Degree Bakery’s mango cheesecake, Marie...
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Strawberry season at Tanaka Farms, our local organic farm, opened in mid-March. Each year, we anticipate the season’s approach as we plan our strawberry-picking outing(s). Bebe E’s favorite wagon display in front of the produce stand. (April 2011) This season, Bebe E and I were fortunate to go strawberry-picking twice already. Once with “my girls” (best friends) and their families, and a second time with family (for Big...
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Blueberry cheesecake cups were my favorite childhood dessert. It seems like my mom made this regularly for us, and when I asked her about this, she said it was because she made this often for parties, as well as refreshments for a number of activities: basketball, church, poker night, Japanese school, boy scouts, girl scouts, her flower arrangement group, chorus, so on and so forth! Am I ever glad my mom had all these activities to make...
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