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Browsing Archive: August, 2010

Raspberry Napoleons

Posted by Emma Barker on Tuesday, August 31, 2010, In : Desserts 


  "It's a pastry. It's flaky and creamy, and it tastes great!" -The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, Daniel Pinkwater.

Daniel Pinkwater has been one of my favorite authors since I was in middle school. His novels, from Alan Mendelson, the Boy from Mars to The Worms of Kukumlima captured my imagination and basically summed up my feelings about being a weird kid. My favorite of his books is The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, which, with its two sentences about Napoleons, got me s...

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Curried Lentils with Kale

Posted by Emma Barker on Monday, August 23, 2010, In : Sides 


    After spending a week in the bay area at my parents' house, where it was cold enough to compell me to borrow a sweatshirt from my mom, I was happy to get back to Davis. It's been a weirdly cool summer both here and there, which is good for me since Davis temperatures usually get into the 100's during the summer. It's not so nice for my parents, who were actually lighting fires in the fireplace while I was visiting. Since returning to Davis, I've been eating almost like a vegetarian, with ...

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Blackberry Pie

Posted by Emma Barker on Tuesday, August 17, 2010, In : Desserts 


    Now, I'm no masochist. As a general policy, I avoid pain as much as possible. But sometimes, the best things in life are made all the sweeter if you have to suffer a little to get them.

    I went on vacation in Greece a few weeks ago, which was wonderful. I could tell you all about the beaches on the Greek Isles with the sand and the water and the hot foreign shirtless guys and the baklava and the spanikopita. I could tell you about Athens, a modern city thriving all around the crumbling...

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