If you’re a chocolate lover, these double chocolate cookies are for you! Super fudgy and chewy with large chunks of gooey chocolate in every bite.
blue bottle double chocolate cookies

Deep down, I’m a San Franciscan stuck with a New Yorker’s mind, body, address, and stride cadence.

Shocking, I know, but my love of Bi-Rite ice cream is palpable and I am firm in the belief that Blue Bottle Coffee is the closest thing to liquid gold that us mere mortals can strive for.

Also, I could probably live in the Ferry Building and want for naught for a very long period of time.

Feel free to dare me to try.

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dorie

1. When you get to spend an evening with, oh, only one of the best bakers of our time. That.

2. Bonus that she is incredibly adorable, funny, and sweet. And has a slice ‘n’ bake cookie tip that I’m going to share with you this cookie season that is going to blow your mind.

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Serve these mini cornmeal cakes with heirloom tomato relish as an appetizer or a main meal, and you will feel like you’re eating a little bit of summer in every bite.
mini cornmeal cakes with heirloom tomato relish

Apparently the sun starts going down before 8pm these days, which, for the record, NO ONE CONSULTED ME ON.

I would have vetoed.

Big time.

And so it is that blue-tinged, uncharacteristically blurry photos happen to good people recipes, despite my best efforts to white balance and shoot totally sharp and in focus pictures at high exposures without a tripod.

WILL I EVER LEARN?!

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Clean out your fridge with this summer vegetable paella that allows you to use up all your crisper drawer odds and ends in a delicious one-pot meal.
summer vegetable paella

It really technically still is summer, though.

FYI.

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Celebrate the peak of plum season with this warmly spiced plum streusel cake with sweet and salty toffee glaze.
spiced plum streusel cake with toffee glaze

Plums and I are having a moment.

Apparently late summer is when they turn into the best versions of themselves and, coincidentally, so do I.

So I have been doing my best to keep them within arm’s reach at all times. Something tells me that doing so can only lead to good things.

Happy endings.

(Though preferably not of the sensual massage variety.)

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