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YUMMM!! These treats are the best!!!  These peanut butter pretzel bites are the perfect combination of salty, sweet, crunchy and melt-in-your-mouth goodness.  I’m a sucker for anything with the chocolate/peanut butter combination (check out my reese’s peanut butter cup recipe) so I was popping these babies in my mouth every 10 seconds: These are so [...]

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Brown Butter Rice Krispies Treats

by ilene on October 5, 2012 · 2 comments

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When we moved from Boston last year, I treated myself to a nice new cookbook: Flour Bakery was one of Jeff and my favorite places to eat.  The newer Cambridge shop was less than half a mile from where we lived so we quickly became regulars when the new location opened.  We loved riding our [...]

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Fresh Vietnamese Summer Rolls

by ilene on October 3, 2012 · 1 comment

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While it seems like the rest of the country is welcoming cooler temperatures, packing away shorts, apple picking, making pumpkin pie  and saying hello to fall, we here in San Francisco are finally experiencing our Indian summer.  It was a whopping 88 degrees in the city yesterday!  For some reason, this weird little city stays [...]

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