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Oven Braised Chicken with Tomato and Olive Sauce

Happy Autumn Equinox! Mother Earth decided to bless us by sending our first real Fall day. The temperature dropped from the upper 90s down to 72 and breezy in just a couple days. The wind smelled wet and cold. It blew strongest in the afternoon and the dust was so thick in places that visibility was…

Apples, Anniversaries and Birthdays

By: Melissa November 3, 2011May 26, 2018

Family, Food, Fruitapple butter, autumn, fall, photography, picking apples, sebastopol, sonoma county, travel4 Comments

I feel completely unprepared for this post, moving boxes are on every surface and pizza boxes cover the stove, but its been too long since my last one and I feel you deserve an update. We are all moved in to our new home now and we are slowly learning our way around. If you…

Thanksgiving Cranberry Upside Down Cake

By: Melissa November 23, 2010May 26, 2018

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It is a miracle this cake made it. I started baking early in the afternoon, just after lunch. First the butter and brown sugar were brought to a rich and creamy dark brown in my cast iron pan. Cranberries were cooked in orange juice until they popped out of their skins. The cake batter called…

Pear, Honey and Ginger Slab Pie

By: Melissa October 20, 2010May 26, 2018

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When I was a teenager, the crisp cool weather of October meant my sister and I were on apple and pear duty. Our job was to pick the pears, apples, and apple-pears off the trees in the orchard before the birds or our fruit-eating dogs got to them first. We loved picking bird pecked apples…