Lynne

A bowl of salad with colorful vegetables and herbs.

Beet, Red Cabbage & Carrot Salad with Seeds, Currants and Orange Pomegranate Molasses Dressing

07/21/2011 |

In the past three weeks I have made a Blueberry Cake, Checkerboard Cookies and Peanut Butter Cookies. I also made…

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A stack of peanut butter cookies on top of a wooden table.

Peanut Butter Cookies & the Gum in Hair Dilemma

07/18/2011 |

Ok, ok, I know everybody and their brother has a recipe for Peanut Butter Cookies on their blog, and they’re…

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A plate of food with shrimp and rice patties.

Fried Green Tomatoes with Tomato Brown Sugar Chutney

07/14/2011 |

Have you ever gotten up in the morning and said to yourself, today I have got to make me some…

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A close up of cookies on a red plate

Black and White Checkerboard Cookies

07/10/2011 |

I have been thinking about making cookies for about a week, because I have been craving a sweet little treat…

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A piece of cake with blueberries on top.

Blueberry Pudding Cake for My 4th of July BBQ

07/05/2011 |

I was so happy for the 4th of July to roll around, because we were having our first holiday feast…

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A close up of an old meat grinder and a side by side picture.

10 Things I Forgot I Had

06/30/2011 |

If you have been following my blog, you know that I moved recently after 18 years in my previous house.…

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Two photos of a dessert with one being cheesecake.

BALEEN at The Portofino Hotel for Breakfast, Lunch, Oh My and Lemon Meringue Pie

06/25/2011 |

In September of last year I visited Baleen and photographed beautiful dishes from Executive Chef Jesse Souza’s dinner menu. I…

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Unpacking My Cookbooks in the New House

06/22/2011 |
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A vase filled with pink flowers on top of a table.

Packing Up My Cookbooks and Moving

05/08/2011 |

Our ordeal with the roofing disaster and debris finally came to a close a couple of weeks ago. The lawsuits…

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A plate of food with some fruit on it

Hello Camp Blogaway!

04/28/2011 |

Duck Carnitas with Chipotle Blackberry Sauce I am on my way up into the mountains east of Los Angeles to…

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A woman with glasses smiling for the camera.Hello! My name is Lynne Hemer, and I am a woman obsessed with food and cooking, in search of new, unusual, exotic, and sublime ingredients and recipes. I love reading cookbooks, taking cooking classes, going to restaurants, photographing food, and blogging about it all! I hope you enjoy my website as much as I enjoyed creating it.

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