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In Season: Hapa Kid Quick Pickles

How many times have you moved as an adult? Me, 11 times. It’s never fun, and it gets worse, the older you get. Once, early on when I moved from LA to the Bay Area, I shipped a bunch of stuff by mail. Moving by mail is not a great idea. Unless you want to buy all new stuff. Then finally there comes a time when there’s no more rounding up friends with promises of beer and pizza. You just bite the bullet and hire movers. After 11 moves, I can’t believe some of the things that have made the trek. I’ve been looking for a peach pit ring that my grandpa carved, at least that’s how I remember it. I'm convinced I have it somewhere. And I can’t find it.
July 7, 20132Comments

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Grill Power: Halloumi & Grilled Vegetable Pasta Salad

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Just a quick hit today as Canada is finishing its long weekend celebrating Canada Day and the US is gearing up for Independence Day. Like a lot of the West Coast we're in the midst of a heatwave, so stretching one night of cooking over a couple of meals sounds like a good plan to me.  Over the weekend, we fired up the grill and threw on some halloumi and vegetable skewers inspired by Joshua Bousel's version on Serious Eats a couple of weeks ago. We doubled up the skewers and had half the veg for dinner with the other half headed for this pasta salad the next day.
July 1, 20133Comments

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Dessert Recipes

Sweet, Simple, Seriously Chocolate Pudding

Sometimes you just need things to be easy and uncomplicated.  To cap off a long week, you want something familiar. Something simple and delicious. That’s what this chocolate pudding is, just simple.  No parfait treatments or graham cracker crusts or whipped cream dollops here -- just good ol' pudding.  Where the box variety suggests chocolate flavor, this pudding doesn’t skimp. It's sweet, simple, and seriously chocolatey without being too rich.

June 28, 20132Comments

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Pizza Recipes

Damn Near Perfect Whole Wheat Pizza

I’ve been, let's call it what it is, short my entire life.  On my tallest day, coincidentally, the day I got my driver's license, I was 5'1. So when you find a pair of pants that fits without needing alterations, you buy three pairs in black and never look back.  It’s the same thing with pizza dough. When you find a dough recipe that works, you just keep on with it. For me, that’s been the Food Lab’s NY-style pizza dough. But after awhile, you start to need another pair of pants. What I really wanted was a whole wheat crust. So I started tinkering with my tried and true.  Tinkering until I got the Food Lab’s NY-style pizza dough to go whole wheat.

June 24, 201311Comments

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Breafkast Recipes

Honey Orange Ginger Waffles

For a blog called DailyWaffle, there are few actual waffle recipes in these pages. It's not for lack of consumption. The truth? Waffles rarely stick around long enough in our kitchen to get photographed. Whether I’ve planned ahead with an overnight batch of yeasted waffles, or just whipped together a batter, more often than not, we’re standing…
June 18, 20130Comments

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Summer Sipper: Red Wine Sangria

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It only takes a few lost Sundays to put you off one drink or another. There's a reason people snicker knowingly at, "One margarita, two margarita, three margarita, floor."  In college,  one too many cheap, bowl-sized glasses of sangria put it on my list of top hangover-inducing beverages, right behind bottom-shelf margaritas and Long Island Iced Teas.  It'd been a long time since I'd had sangria, and even longer since I’d had good sangria.  Until La Condesa.

June 16, 20130Comments

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Dinner for One: Cherry Arugula Salad

cherry arugula salad| dailywaffle

Today, it's been eight days since I’ve seen my husband.  I’ve eaten five dinners on my own, if granola and snack mix on the plane home from Austin count as “dinner.” Cooking what I like, only for myself, usually that’s totally liberating. I get to eat all the things I like and he doesn’t. I see myself leaning against the stove in a crisp white shirt (mmm, very practical), sleeves rolled up, stirring a pot with one hand, contemplating my day while leisurely sipping a glass of red wine.  Like in a movie.
June 14, 20130Comments

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