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Celebrate winter’s best citrus before it goes out of season with this winter citrus and avocado salad! It combines sweet tart grapefruit, blood oranges, and tangerines with decadent burrata and a dazzling Alessi balsamic reduction drizzle. It feels too early for salad season, especially with a foot of snow on the ground, but what if I told you that this “salad” was really just an excuse to drown your winter blues in burrata and balsamic reduction??? I knew you’d be with me on this. Of course, the gem-toned rainbow of winter citrus fruit doesn’t hurt either. It’s like candy for your eyes  and  for your taste buds. At first glance, this salad almost certainly appears to be a motley crew of forgotten refrigerator odds and ends, but I promise  promise  that they were all entirely intentional and perfectly paired to make for a flavor explosion in every bite. You see, I felt bad that I’d all but forgotten citrus season this year and as I was paging through my cookbooks try...

Prepare these vegan almond joy overnight oats the night before and wake up a chocolate, coconut, and almond oatmeal dream! You really try to do your best as a parent only to realize YOU ARE RAISING AN ADDICT. Already, at 10 months old. They’re starting young these days. Hi, my name is Joanne and I gave birth to a book addict. Yes. Really. It goes something like this: we read a book. It ends, as all books do. Remy starts to throw a temper tantrum at the injustice inherent in the fact that books can’t just go on forever. I’m a softy so I read the book again. Repeat. Ad nauseum. Indefinitely. Until I distract her with a boob. And sometimes that doesn’t even work. Don’t get me wrong, this  sounds  like a good problem to have until you’ve read The Little Blue Truck FIFTEEN TIMES in a twenty minute period and you kind of start wishing that the dump truck in the story had just stayed stuck in the mud so that the book would end sooner. I realize that sounds mean but to be ho...

This simple Elote Dip recipe is everything you love about classic Mexican street corn…in an easy 15-minute dip! The very first time we invited our European friends over for Mexican food here in Spain, we made our usual round of tacos, rice, beans, and dips…and  totally  spiced everyone out.   Ha, to our taste, everything was pretty mild.  But as we watched everyone non-chalantely avoiding the salsa and piling their plates high with rice and kindly trying to down their tacos with tears in their eyes, we realized that there’s a reason why you can’t find jalapeños in Barcelona.  This country doesn’t do “picante” in the least! Of course, as the host that night, I was totally kicking myself and scrambling to bring out more tortillas and rice and anything else mild that might come to the rescue.  But as it turned out, everyone was perfectly happy to make practically an entire dinner out of this elote dip!  I had made an enormous batch earlier that wee...