So, did you volunteer to bring dessert to the annual fourth of July [insert you choice of event here]?  Did you maybe slack a little with the sign-up?  Maybe you were distracted by the return of True Blood or the College World Series.  And, in your distraction, did your next-door-neighbor or maybe your Aunt Janet steal the decorated-by-berries-to-look-like-an-American-flag cake, pie or tart slot?
Well then, I have a party cake for you.  Five words: pistachios, limes, angel food cake.

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In early April, TD and I went up to Morro Bay to kayak for a long weekend.  Hurricane-like winds kept us from that activity (too bad we don’t kite-surf) so we found ourselves wandering the back roads of Paso Robles (at least inland the wind was a little warmer), sampling the wine and seeing what kind of trouble we could get ourselves into.  One morning we had breakfast at a little place in town.  TD’s meal came with the muffin …

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In a town full of hipsters, I am decidedly not.  I don’t have a cool fedora or any tatoos.  The last time we went out in Hollywood, TD and I were home by 10:30 (uhm, P.M.).  I think cocount water tastes like spit.  Despite the fact that I love Jud Apatow and think Lena Dunham is talented,  every time I watch  Girls all I can think is, ‘good gravy, just wash your hair…all of you’.  Well, maybe that last one …

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In our household, salsa is a food group.  We eat it on everything.  And while there are as many types of salsas as there are things to put it on, during the summer months, pico de gallo is on the list of things made weekly in my kitchen.  Pico is a salsa of the uncooked variety.  Pico can be made many ways.  Here is how I do it.
Simple ingredients: tomato, purple onion, garlic, jalapeno, lime, salt, pepper and cilantro.

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