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Outside of a few family members, we barely received any of our registry items, maybe 6-10? Everything else was really random, homemade, or collected from someones spare closet, including an as-seen-on-TV 'griddle', those cheap cookbooks you buy for a kids fundraiser, weird leftover bread tubes from a Pampered Chef party, and an icicle freezy pop thing that's meant to keep white wine chilled. We did get some cash, but to be honest, I couldn't tell you what we spent it on.

Mei-Ling, do your homework, coconut oil is extremely healthy to eat because of the kinds of fat that make up coconut oil. Its been shown to help in metabolism and weight loss, improve cholesterol profiles, and its a great substitute for olive oil in medium temp cooking because it can tolerate more heat and doesn't oxidize the way olive oil does. Good stuff, seriously. The negative studies that came out years ago were on highly processed forms of the oil.

Hah, the place we just moved into has a blue and white tiled bathroom. Its cute, and very vintage, but I'm not crazy about blue and didn't want to go matchy matchy when it came to anything I put in there. I bought a small dresser and painted it this exact color on a whim...I think its called Tangerine Sunset? Its a surprising mix with the sweet vintage tile, but I get so many compliments on it.

I don't like syrup on my pancakes at all, but I love syrup in other things. Does that make me weird? I like lemon curd or jam on my pancakes, then I roll em' up. I eat my apples like your aunt, with a knife in slices, too.

I like food cold. Not always, but some things taste so good to me cold, especially pasta based dishes, casseroles, etc. Mmmm, leftover lasagna sans microwave.

Are these a sweet muffin or is the honey/vanilla/cinnamon just to round things out a bit? When I first read the recipe I assumed they were neutral (soups and salads) but the ingredients make me think they're a bit sweeter.

I love the first photo, because I just did this in our new, awesome-but-small one bedroom apartment. We don't have a proper dining room, but we do have a breakfast nook thats way too small to house anything other than a breakfast bar, so I put a small dining table in the space (fits like it was custom!), a cool looking desk chair, and set up shop right there in the kitchen. I LOVE it. The fact that the desk isn't hidden in some extra room forces me to keep it minimal and clean, and the extra space that the dining table (vs a desk) gives me means I can really spread out and work. Plus, half the work I do on my computer is food related, so being near the kitchen means I can pull up recipes and follow along without getting the laptop or my iPhone dirty or wet...and I can keep an eye on whatever is on the stove and still get some other non-food work done at the same time.

Love how the cheese plate keeps moving from table to table. Way to stylize.

I make Thomas Keller's version of lamb meatballs once a month or so because my husband is obsessed...and as delicious as they are, I could use a change! I'll have to try these. Sorry, Tom.

Holy crap! Home! This house is literally like three doors away from the house I grew up in. I love how they made it modern without giving up that weird desert vibe. Feels like home.

I've done this a bunch of times with random/weird paintings I've found at thrift stores. If you're going to do it though, make sure you use a good coat or three of gesso before you paint, so you don't see lines of the previous painting like you can in this one! Its distracting and is kinda tell-tale. If thats your thing though, thats cool too.