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Lemon Bars (Recipe)

Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

Lemon bars are one of my very favorite desserts – they always have been. When I was a teenager, my mom, sister, brother, and I would trek down to Albuquerque for violin lessons – that’s an hour from Santa Fe (where we lived) and thus shows pure dedication. Now that I’m thinking about it, though, [...]

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Mexican Rice (Recipe)

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

I had leftover Mexican rice for lunch the other day and, even though I didn’t heat it back up, it tasted pretty good. That got me thinking of a conversation I recently had with my sister and about the list that resulted from it. There are three kinds of foods : those that just taste so [...]

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Fresh Tomato Salsa (Recipe)

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

I think it’s funny that I learned to make salsa in  Paris- out of pure necessity, really. Ever since leaving for college, one of the reasons I find myself regularly returning back to sunny Santa Fe is for the unmatched northern-style New Mexican food – warm flour tortillas, chunky green chili sauce, cheese tamales wrapped [...]

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