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One of my favorite resto review blogs, Immaculate Infatuation, just launched its iPhone ap last month: http://www.immaculateinfatuation.com/features/the-infatuation-application (I'm waiting anxiously for an Android version, which the fellows are surely working on).

If you're an eater who likes neighborhood recs, out-of-the-way joints, a little irreverence, and a big appetite, I highly recommend the site and the ap. I have yet to disagree with their opinions about a place and have found quite a few great spots through the site.

My main beef with grabbable breakfasts is that so many are sweet (not savory) and carb-ish. I mean I love a muffin, but...

101 Cookbooks (and maybe it got popped here at some point...) has a savory cottage cheese muffin recipe that looks like it might be vaguely mini-quiche-esque, with the added bonus of being flexible for vegetable inclusion: http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/cottage-cheese-muffins-recipe.html

And I've been tempted by the possibilities of the hand-sized turnovers for breakfast - with savory fillings that could be vegetarian or not, depending (caramelized onions and chard with dates?): http://roothogordie.tumblr.com/post/9693314284/oh-look-another-handful-of-a-breakfast-item-from#notes

ohhhh my my. This looks outstanding - and great tip on the freezing! A house of two could bake it, freeze half, and not have the pressure (temptation, obligation, challenge, whatever you want to call it...) to eat a whole cake...heehee.

Ooooh, I'd love to see this go POW in canary yellow or a turquoise... AWESOME find by the way, and may both halves of it find wonderful use in your home!

Like this idea and most of this list, and I know, I know, but: I couldn't help but suppress a snicker about #1, change out my plates. Man if I had the money for two sets of plates, I'd still not have the room for two sets of plates. :) I'm going to interpret this as "change out my dining linens," and swap placemats, tablecloths, and napkins. And then I'ma dust off my ice cream maker and buy more ice trays!

Another grand benefit of dried beans - which we uncovered when we went carless: they weigh far less than canned and go "farther" for the space they take up in the bike bag. One 15-oz can of beans is the component of one dinner dish; one 16-oz bag can make three or four.

And for cooking beans from dried, nothing beats a pressure cooker.

Very cool! I'm now wondering if I could put some trellis over my kitchen window (no curtain, faces the neighbors...) and do the same, but on the inside of the house... Would keep the cat out of the pots and give us privacy AND use the only real light in the house!

As a home-cook vegetarian (few foods-in-boxes, lots of raw eating, simple prep, no preservatives) who thinks the dinner above sounds delicious - even the meat, for them what eats it - I really fail to see how a paleo diet "is pretty much in direct opposition to vegetarian and vegan diets and in many more ways than just eating meat" as Philip says. I don't see how their method of eating - mindful, historical, home-cooked, real food ingredients, includes eggs - is in opposition with mine: mindful, historical, home-cooked, real food ingredients, includes eggs, but lacks meat and adds dairy. When I think of diets paleo is "in oppostion to" I'd be more likely to suggest a raw diet (with its low- or no-heat and vegan nature) or maybe even the "typical" American diet (cans, bags, out-of-season, processed, fast, under-fibered, and way way oversweetened).

Maybe I'm hearing "opposition" differently than it is meant, but I see a place for myself at this delectable table and I don't feel opposed at all! Avocado "dressed" spinach, raw honey, fruit, grilled veggies? YUM!

(okay P.S. I would love to serve these with a nice red wine, which is what great dark chocolate's more "salty" profile makes me want. That these are punched up with sea salt makes me want that all the more. An elegant take on a homey sweet.)

hnn. This looks AMAZING, right up my tangy-less sweet-cheese alley. Also no bake, perfect for summer! Thanks!