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Happy Year of the Monkey!
May your coming year be filled with fun, creativity, unconventional thinking, adventure, love, and joy as you let go, swinging from branch to branch. Fasten your seat belts, it looks like it could be a wild ride!
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Current Obsession
Yes, another easy and delicious recipe guaranteed to make your house smell good while simmering! Apple Ginger Sauce. Great as a snack, mixed with nuts and grains for breakfast, or on the side of a stack of pancakes. I cut up about a dozen smallish Gala apples, a very decent length of ginger…
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Healthy and Budget Friendly Deliciousness.
In case you couldn’t tell, I’m unemployed, it’s winter, I love good food, and I’m on a budget until a new job presents itself… Time to cook! This is my newest fave recipe, super easy and delish! Black beans, quinoa, sweet potato, avocado, greens, feta, and green chile salsa. I like to mix it…
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Bread.
Sometimes (like on a Monday in January when the costuming job you thought you were about to start falls through, and you just watched Downton Abbey’s characters smear butter onto thick cut teatime slices of bread, and it’s really cold outside) all you can do is put an apron on over your overalls and bake…
Smagik is Claire Sandrin’s personal blog of writing and photographs dedicated to finding beauty in the everyday. It covers everything from how to brand yourself as a creative, making a professional pivot in middle age, travels to Amsterdam, and recipes for grain free chocolate zucchini cake. Join me for the adventure that is this life!
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