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There are endless ways to flavor and prepare preserved lemons for making marinades, salad dressings, seasoning rice pilaf, or just adding the brine to flavor some yummy Bloody Marys. We have several lemon trees on our property, and the two Meyer lemon trees produce the most delicious citrus. The trees, however, seemed like they hadn’t been pruned in years, so Ben took his pruning shears outside and went to town on those trees. He picked every last lemon off the branches, and you could feel the trees taking huge sighs of relief.

and I’m worried that if I let the not-so-secret secret out it’ll be so popular that the line will wrap around the block. If you’ve ever done a Google search for the best chicken sandwich in the Bay Area, you probably already know about this place. Open Tuesday-Saturday, Bakesale Betty opens up shop in a nondescript location in the Temescal neighborhood in Oakland, California. I’ve always loved banana nut bread, but they go for gold with the sandy, sugar topping.

Once we realized that our birthdays were on the same weekend this year, we knew we had to do something special. We lucked out HARD with the home we rented in The Sea Ranch, CA

We were surround by giant redwoods and the pack of turkeys that lived in the woods around the house kept Sammich and her friends busy. We were the only people crazy enough to actually go down to the beach and quickly learned why nobody else did when Sadie almost got washed away by high tide. Our friend’s dog, Sadie, ran after some pelicans and didn’t realize there was a river until she was fully immersed in river water. We took the path that lead us to – wait for it – another insanely beautiful bluff with a view of the ocean.