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Listening To: The Jane Doze

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Because these ladies are rockstars.

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February 27, 2012 at 12:55

Inspired By Chocolate and Sea Salt

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Prompted by a phone call with a food-loving friend, I went a little over the top this weekend. It all started with a question: “Why is no one making Chocolate Sea Salt Flakes?”

If no one is making them, you might as well make them yourself.

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Doing More With Less

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Yes.

[Via]

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February 26, 2012 at 05:58

Friday Photo: Ingredients

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I love the colors in this photo, the contrast of the green of the olive oil and the yellow Meyer Lemon. All part of one the Best. Cakes. Ever.

[click link for recipe… you won’t be sorry, I promise]

Listening To: Make Your Own Luck

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And the productivity levels just improved.

Written by Anna Brones

February 23, 2012 at 11:49

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Baking Swedish Semlor

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My favorite Swedish pastry? The semla. There are of course dozens of amazing Swedish baked goods, but this one is special because it only comes once a year. Baking a batch in the middle of summer or early fall? Unacceptable. The semla is meant to be consumed on Fat Tuesday, but of course that can be stretched out to include anytime between New Year’s and Easter.

Back to the semla.

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Written by Anna Brones

February 21, 2012 at 09:03

Friday Photo: Ebb and Flow

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Stormy water hits a calm beach.

Nature is about balance; the coming and going, the ebb and flow.

This got me thinking about the ebb and flow of opportunities for risk that come and go every single day.

Every. Single. Day.

We are inundated with opportunities. The question is what we do with them.

It’s this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am. If I go ahead and do it, that affects how much I continue wanting to do it. When I hold myself back, I trade appearances for the opportunity to find out what I am like. – Hugh Prather

Written by Anna Brones

February 17, 2012 at 11:53

Listening To: Ray-Ban Exclusive Vol. 2

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If there was a Volume 1, there had to be a Volume 2. Think of this playlist as a condensed party- it starts out chill and relaxed and ends strong enough that if you’re not dancing something just might be wrong with you. Listen to it here.

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Written by Anna Brones

February 14, 2012 at 06:24

Life is Too Short

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Good words from director and  author of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi:

Life is too short and we cannot spoil it. I don’t have 300 years in front of me. So I just do the things that I really want to do at the moment because that’s the only way you will do them well. If you don’t believe in yourself, it won’t work.

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February 13, 2012 at 09:46

In the Kitchen

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Prepping some good stuff for another Kokblog collaboration. Ample use of cardamom required.

Written by Anna Brones

February 11, 2012 at 13:40

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