One of my favorite things about wintertime is the profusion of citrus fruits. I can stuff myself day after day with navel oranges, honey tangerines, ruby red grapefruits, clementines, blood oranges - you name it, I'll eat it.

I suppose, if nothing else, I'll never get scurvy.

That being said, I found myself with a few too many fruits the other day. I had forgotten about the five pound bag of oranges I'd bought one day and came home the next with an eight pound bag. That's a few too many for our house even.

After indulging in fresh squeezed orange juice for a couple days I decided to make a navel orange sorbet. However, even though my ice cream maker attachment was frozen solid and my sorbet base was chilled thoroughly, it refused to set up. I fell back on popsicles, but even then they weren't too my liking. The navel oranges just don't offer enough in complexity of flavor to make a satisfying frozen treat. Best eaten directly out of hand, or squeezed.

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I'm just going to apologize right now.

Put away your bathroom scale. Break out the fat pants with the elastic waistband.

These cookies are going to rock your world.

Last time I was in Florida my sister made these cookies. She's a genuine badass in the kitchen when it comes to cookies, but this time she even outdid her normally awesome self.

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I'm so officially sold on this Kalamansi Tree I got last week at the farmer's market.

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