• Muffins

    My son is a freshman at Gunn High School in Palo Alto. He has chosen Food as a subject, something I find awesome! This recipe was handed out by the teacher and he made the muffins at home this morning. He used a mix of different chocolate chips; butterscotch, white, and semi-sweet. With great success.

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  • Fig jam

    When being in my early teens we were bored and walking relentlessly the streets in the suburbs of Oslo.  In the fall there were apples and plums on the trees and they were apparently not being eaten. Or so it appeared for us. For a thrill we entered the gardens and picked the fruit. In Norwegian it is called going on “slang” – to scrump. It is the same as stealing, but there were no other consequences than that the owner of the garden would yell at you if got caught.
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