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Cold-Brewed Iced Coffee

I’m an avid coffee drinker. My dad used to pour me a teeny cup of it as a kid. It was mostly milk, but he called it a mocha. I felt grown up. But let me tell you, I just can’t drink it right now. I can’t drink hot coffee when I’m already hot. I just can’t. So I cold-brewed some French roast, not French toast. (Although now I want French toast…) We made this…

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Chocolate Mousse with Olive Oil and Sea Salt

Last weekend, my Mom came to visit. She brought me snazzy parfait cups that I totally remember her making blue jell-o in when I was a kid. She even put a gummy shark in there for scary-swimmy-tasty goodness. Talk about awesome. Instead of jell-o, this time, we opted for mousse. And when I found this recipe on the kitchn, I knew it was the one I was dreaming of. It has all of my favorite…

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Mocha Muffins

Sometimes I get impatient when I have to wait until Tuesday to watch Law and Order and sometimes I get impatient eating dinner when there’s dessert. I usually get impatient about breakfast as I’m going to bed and I was really impatient about trying one of these muffins right out of the oven. I ran out of kosher salt right after I ran out of patience … I might have used sea salt in these out…

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