By Ashley Aikele Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays because it’s the perfect mix of tradition and food. There’s grandma’s homemade rolls and cranberry fluff, my dads mashed potatoes, candied yams, homemade gravy and moist turkey and of course aunt Teena’s Razzleberry Pie. I love this pie because it’s a little bit tart and […]
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11.17.15
A Macrobiotic Salad
My friends here in San Francisco, Karen and Suji, have a company called Reset which offers an alternative to the traditional juice cleanse. The juices are supplemented by one nutritious meal a day, and these meals are absolutely incredible. At first I thought it was just because I had been drinking juice all day, but then I had them when I […]
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11.11.15
Homemade Carvel Ice Cream Cake
Growing up back in New York, every birthday I would ask for an ice cream cake. What I had in mind one were those fancy Carvel ones I occasionally had at rich kids’ birthday parties and my mother did her best to recreate it for us. She’d take a block of ice cream (remember when […]
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11.9.15
Figasa Bread
Last month, I flew down to Dallas with Jared’s two sisters, Jordan of Oh Happy Day and Gabby of Design Mom, to shoot a really fun video with Wolf Cooking Appliances. They have a great campaign around reclaiming the kitchen, making time for cooking and the importance of family dinners. In the video we talk a lot […]