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Weekend hangover: What Gabby Reece eats for breakfast
I interviewed Gabby Reece for this month’s issue of REDBOOK [click here for unapologetic self-promotion]. I have to say, that woman is amazing. Not only does she hold a free(!) weekly fitness class...
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Weekend Hangover: What to eat after you’ve stuffed your face for a week straight
What do you eat when you’ve gone on an 8-day binge of meat, cheese, pasta, and bottles and bottles of wine? Don’t ask me. That’s why I consulted the Nutrition Twins, Tammy and Lyssie Lakatos. I’ve met...
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Weekend hangover: blueberry honey parfait
I’ve been freelancing for a month now, and there are a lot of things that I love about it: sleeping late, impromptu Wednesday beach days, a wardrobe of flip flops and jean shorts. Sorry, am I rubbing...
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Heathy Thanksgiving Appetizer Recipes (part 1): butternut squash salad
What do you make when you have two girlfriends over for dinner—one who’s pregnant (and practically screaming: FEED ME NOW!) and the other who’s about to get married (and in so few words has said:...
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Weekend hangover: Homemade granola
I was tempted to lie to you about the healthiness of this sweet, crunchy granola, but the fact is, it’s basically just a broken down oatmeal raisin cookie. Of course, that’s what makes it so good....
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Valentine’s Day Brunch: La Isla’s Stuffed French Toast
Is anyone as obsessed as I am with Throwdown With Bobby Flay on Food Network? I admit the whole premise of the show is a bit baffling—Bobby Flay challenges the country’s best cooks and tries to prove...
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Tart with mushrooms, caramelized onions, and swiss cheese
Remember the day when I quit my magazine job to become a freelance writer and pictured my days filled with 2-hour boozy lunches with girlfriends? Hahahaha. Boy, was I funny. It seems that I had...
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Irish soda bread scones with orange honey butter
I know what you’re thinking: What am I doing making Irish soda bread scones when so many of my recipes are Italian? Truth be told, I am 25 percent Irish (cue the song: Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs....
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Mother’s Day Brunch: Pancake cups with lemon, ricotta, and blackberry.
This past Easter, I made the unfortunate error of cooking pancakes for my entire immediate family—that’s all 11 of us, including husbands and boyfriends. You see, pancakes aren’t the type of meal you...
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Patriotic crumb cake
It’s funny how much things can change within a year. Exactly 12 months ago, I was sitting at my desk at work refreshing my email every 10 seconds in hopes that we would receive that coveted early...
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Pumpkin bread pudding with orange-vanilla custard sauce
Here’s the thing about Thanksgiving: After I’ve spent a full day consuming the world’s most delicious pumpkin appetizer, plus turkey, stuffing, cranberry, potatoes, and—in my husband’s Italian family...
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Cranberry orange bread
Help—I think I’m having a loaf overdose. A loaferdose! That’s the medical term for what happens when a person bakes loaf after loaf and ends up with a counter so covered in cranberry-orange breads,...
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