Mother’s Day

Sea-Salted Smoky Almond Chocolate Bark

May 5, 2010

I’m secretly hoping that this will be the year the homemade Mother’s Day gifts start coming. Aren’t they sort of a rite of passage? Our school classrooms would turn into little workshops this time of year, turning out everything from tissue paper flowers to ceramic ashtrays (Did we seriously make those? I am really dating […]

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Sausage Breakfast Casserole

May 8, 2009

It’s Part II of my “virtual” Mother’s Day brunch! To complement the brown sugary, melt-in-your-mouth Sour Cream Pecan Coffee Cake, I’ll be celebrating my mom and mom-in-law with a savory Sausage Breakfast Casserole. I know they’ll love it – both moms have prepared similar dishes for my husband and me when we’ve visited. It’s the […]

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Sour Cream Pecan Coffee Cake

May 6, 2009

We love living in California but if my husband and I could change just one thing it would be to have our families closer. Both sets of parents and most of our siblings live on the East Coast. On Mother’s Day we catch up with our moms on the phone and send cards but we […]

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