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Matzo. Flatbread. Passover optional.

Whether you're leaving Egypt in a big hurry or you just want to make a great flatbread in a few minutes. Delicious and easy because it's got olive oil in it. Infinitely better than those square things that come in a box. Good enough to serve without Passover.n
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Hiking Lucky on the Oregon Coast

Easy to get lucky here. Seems like the entire coastline is preserved, maintained and public. And very, very beautiful. Two, three or four hours on the Cape Sebastian Trail. 1,200 - 1,800 calories. Four to seven miles, you decide where to turn around.
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Exotic Eyeful: The Spring Orchid Shows

This is worth a trip. This is a trip. Flowers so strange and beautiful it's hard to imagine they occur in nature. On this planet. This seems to be orchid season; the shows are everywhere. Find one near you. Find an hour to stare at flowers that will leave you speechless.
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Rainy day omelet: Vitamin D, sun & food

This isn't really about the eggs or the salmon. It's about their Vitamin D. One of the few things you can't get enough of from a healthy diet. But it's something your skin synthesizes when it's exposed to sunlight. Ten minutes a day during Spring and Summer may do the trick for the whole year.
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Happy Home Farming Day

Good timing. Because you have to get started during the next couple of weeks if you want to eat like a home farmer in a couple of months. The ripest, freshest, tastiest and sweetest. A totally hands-on experience: appreciate something very simple and unimaginably complicated.
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Slower Sunday: Still

Yosemite is one of those time-stood-still places. Like nothing much has changed since the glacier came and went. The national parks are the ticket. To time travel. This is not the modern world. Take a great walk close to home. Think about taking an awesome walk sometime soon.
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Chocolate-Cherry Bread Pudding

Takes about 10 minutes of preparation. Takes another twenty minutes before your home begins to smell like chocolate bread pudding. Which I now believe is the way every home wants to smell. Making this is easy. Waiting for it to bake is tough.
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Half Dome. Earth’s coolest looking rock.

Want to burn through 6,000 calories in a day? This is the day hike for you. Hike 16 miles, up 4,000 feet and back down? Still the hike for you. And if, after you hike the first 7.5 miles, you want to pull yourself up 900 feet of cables - this is your mountain.
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Peanut Butter & Grape Bread

Not a joke. This is profoundly great bread. Without kneading dough. Really. No kneading. Just 30 seconds of stirring. Because sometimes you just feel like eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. When you're out hiking. Melts in your mouth, not your backpack.
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Fresh Favas. Complete Protein Taco.

Must be Spring. Fresh fava beans at the Farmers Market. They're bright green, they're tender, they're slightly sweet. And preparing them is really Slow. But I think it's worth it. At least once or twice a year. Great for Complete Protein Tacos.
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