Figs with Bri Blog

Vegetarian Split Pea Soup

It’s hard to make the drab color of split pea soup look beautiful, but just use your imagination. For quick lunches lately I have resorted

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In Defense of Food

Yes, food needs defending. Last week I read Ed Levine’s (somewhat snarky) comments on what he called Michael Pollan’s Twelve Commandments. I knew I wasn’t

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Life’s Little Victories

Since Marc keeps up with design sites, he’s the one who originally found NotCot‘s food porn aggregator TasteSpotting. It’s been up about a year, and

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Hearth Baked Potatoes

The wood stove with a cast iron bowl on top to help humidify the room. A few years back, Marc’s mom and step dad decided

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Marzipan Snowball Truffles

I LOVE marzipan. I inherited my intense love for marzipan from my maternal grandmother, we called Doe. On many special occasions, she bought a Princess

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