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Hot Diggity Dog

May 16, 2011
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Hot Diggity Dog

Kids and adults alike: forget the traditional processed food-cart grub and grab an organic snack or hot dog while on the go! Joan Miller’s Hot Diggity hot dog cart is back and ready for summer, serving healthy snacks and yummy Niman Ranch franks. Stop by the Strawberry Recreation Center on Fridays and Sundays from...

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Christine’s Handmade Pies by Upper Crust

April 29, 2011
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Christine’s Handmade Pies by Upper Crust

What’s better than getting to come into work late on a Friday? Finding a ‘personal size’ peach pie on my desk when I arrive. Flakey Crust? Check! All Natural? Check! Fresh Fruit? Check! Mouth-watering? Check! And best of all…gluten free! A pie that I can eat? And it looks normal? This has to be...

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Spring-time recipes from The Tavern at Lark Creek

March 31, 2011
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Spring-time recipes from The Tavern at Lark Creek

It’s no secret that we love recipes here in the Marin Magazine office,  and it’s gotten pretty clear that our readers have a thing for them too. So, for the April 2011 issue, we caught up with Aaron Wright, executive chef at the Tavern at Lark Creek, and- good news!-  managed to squeeze not...

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Have a favorite healthy recipe? It might be worth a weekend in Tahoe!

March 14, 2011
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Have a favorite healthy recipe? It might be worth a weekend in Tahoe!

Got one of those coveted “healthy-but-still-tastes-good” recipes tucked away somewhere? Well, now’s the time to pull it out- Destination Hotels and Resorts is teamed up with the Resort at Squaw Creek to celebrate National Nutrition Month with a Kids Healthy Recipe Contest. Just click here and submit your favorite healthy recipe- it can be...

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Loving Tom Hudgens’s Irish Soda Bread!

March 7, 2011
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Loving Tom Hudgens’s Irish Soda Bread!

In our March issue, we decided to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by turning to Tom Hudgens’s new cookbook, The Commensense Kitchen, 500 Recipes and Lessons for a Hand-crafted Life, published last fall by Chronicle Books. A former professional chef, Hudgens now teaches cooking at College of Marin as well as keeps up with his...

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Ultramarathon Man’s New Venture

February 11, 2011
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Ultramarathon Man’s New Venture

Internationally recognized endurance athlete and New York Times bestselling author Dean Karnazes found another way to rise to the top. Karnazes has teamed with U-Top It, a Redding-based purveyor of all-natural frozen yogurt, to open a new chain of frozen yogurt shops in California under the name Marin Yogurt Company. The flagship location for...

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Loving Superfood Chocolate

January 12, 2011
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Loving Superfood Chocolate

It’s no secret that we love anything sweet in the Marin Magazine office. Recently, we got to sample Coracao Confection’s chocolate, which I’m pretty sure was devoured in record time. The raspberry truffles, kaffir lime caramel cups and cinnamon flavored chocolates were tasty but it also helped that none of us felt guilty going...

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Cozy Comforts: Creamy Artichoke Soup

December 7, 2010
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Cozy Comforts: Creamy Artichoke Soup

Holiday shopping is one of those annual rites of passage that I never seem ready for. Sure, I’ve got the tree (thanks Guardsman Christmas lot) and the monogrammed stockings are already purchased and being shipped from Pottery Barn, but I’ll admit, my shopping list hasn’t had one name crossed off, and Black Friday was...

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A Free Meal?

November 24, 2010
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A Free Meal?

In what has become a Marin holiday tradition, Kala Ubhi, Ashok Kumar and Saru Saini invite local residents to come to their Sausalito Indian restaurant, Avatar’s, for a free holiday meal today. Experience a menu of “cultural confusion” in the best way today, November 24. 2656 Bridgeway Boulevard, 415.332.8083.

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Marin meringue maven…

October 21, 2010
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Marin meringue maven…

In summer of 2009, when Carolyn Wendler of Tiburon was planning a Fourth of July party, she decided to add a patriotic twist to the table. “I took my mother’s recipe for green mint meringues and decided to make them red, white and blue.” Not only did they look great, they were the hit...

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