Foolproof homemade potato gnocchi tossed with fresh summer vegetables and a lighter cream sauce.

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Acid flashbacks vs. gnocchi flashbacks.

(Not that I know anything about the former other than what can be found on Wikipedia. But we all know that’s the gospel truth. So.)

Let’s compare.

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Brightly flavored lemony cupcakes dotted with juicy blueberries and topped with a lemony cream cheese frosting.

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So. We have a fruit fly problem.

Which is to say, it’s not really the insects themselves that are the issue, but the fact that they seem to be exerting some sort of vengeance upon us. In bug bite form.

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In the midst of all this blog redesign/migration business, I didn’t get a chance to share with you what else I’ve been doing around the internets. First up, is this egg sandwich with green bean slaw that I posted over at Marcus Samuelsson’s blog. It requires zero oven time and comes together in as long as it take to hard boil an egg. Plus after eating that green bean slaw you might never eat any other slaw again. It’s that good.

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Summer is basically tart season even though making such a thing requires blood, sweat, and tears.

Or, at the very least, turning on your oven and making pie crust, which, between the two, may or may not account for two of the three up there.

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Two days, 849 posts, 58,864 comments, 315 categories, two super dedicated website developers, and one slightly crazed website develop-ee later (ahem, that would be me)…and I think I can safely say WE MADE IT!

It was quite an epic journey to be sure, but Melissa and Erin were fearless captains (and I was curled up in a corner in fetal position just waiting for it to be over…but that’s neither here nor there). And really when we started, I’m not sure that I could have even imagined that it would be this pretty and FUNCTIONAL. And yet here we are.

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