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Grandmom Seipp's Real Butter Cookies: These are at their most amazing right out of the oven. Okay, maybe let them cool a little. But not for long, because the rich, buttery flavor and crackle of these doesn't get better with age.

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Chefs' Thanksgiving in Wine County

Wild Mushroom Risotto: Fresh gourmet mushrooms from Sebastopol's MYCOPIA, brie and truffle oil. Best ever.

Halloween Candy Bar Pie: Recycle candy into something sure to get your holiday pudge started off on the right foot: Candy Bar Pie. Using handfuls of chocolate minis, its a crafty reuse of all that free loot in a pillowy bed of marshmallows and whipped cream.

AppleAtion Gravenstein Brandy: Guy Davis is distilling several varieties of the historic apples from the ranch into an ultra-premium apple brandy called Apple-Ation (a play on the term for distinct grape-growing regions).

There's no sound more beautiful than the clink of ice in a cocktail glass on a hot summer day. Because whether it's 5pm or just north of noon, 'tis the season for salted rims, muddled mint and tiny paper umbrellas.

Zin Restaurant's Brownie Sundae, plus more great Wine Country spots to grab a killer brownie

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The famous Tater Tot Pie Casserole

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Spatzle

Spatzle

"Meh" is about the only word I can think of to describe my feelings about eating out lately. When the bounty of summer threatens to overwhelm my refrigerator it seems criminally wasteful to let so much good food go...

Syrah Bistro is a top-pick in Santa Rosa, especially for crabcakes