With a surprise stuffed cheese crust. I love using eggs in savoury tarts, like Pumpkin Savoury Tart or Savoury Herb Tart, but this time I wanted to focus on the vegetables and include a little surprise for later. I like making these open-faced so that you can fit as much as you want in them [...]

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This past weekend (after recovering from the Girl Geek Dinner) we woke up to a sun that was blindingly bright and screamed “Springtime!” After another mild winter here in Italy, it’s a bit too much to hope that spring is already here, but for the weekend, we all believed it. I walked around with only [...]

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Did you have an amazing 2006? Did you set a Guiness World Record? I tried to upset the Frosted Cupcake in Freefall record but failed (I only ate 47). BUT… I think I had a pretty good year and I wanted to share some highlights, tools and tricks that keep me going and hopefully can [...]

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My post-a-day is coming to a close, as is the Menu for Hope – can we push the donations past $50,000 in these last two days? Bidding closes at 6PM-PST tomorrow (Cali time, baby). Here’s a post listing all the internationally-shippable prizes. Notice mine’s on the list (EU15) but make sure you check with your [...]

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[Tour del Gelato] Three more posts for the Tour del Gelato have been added to the blogroll page!!! Keep ‘em coming! [Menu for Hope] A Menu for Hope has raised over $15,000 so far! But I can tell you that several prizes (including mine, code EU15) have very good chances for you to win! So [...]

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