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Double Beet Salad with Goat Cheese & a dildo
If the day starts with the following questions all happening at the same time as everyone converges in your kitchen and it is before 7am: Contractor: You know your roof has four leaks in it, right? 9-year-old: Mom? 6-year-old: What do I do if my vagina is itchy? 9 –year-old: Mom? Mom? 4-year-old: How come… Read more
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William Carlos Williams, Baked Plums, & Jam
This is just to say I like to eat plums* split and dusted with brown sugar perhaps a squeeze of fresh lemon or cinnamon baked at 400 until the sugars both natural and added begin to brown and bubble If I have them on hand I might also add a drop of creme fraiche or… Read more
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
Today is a big day. The youngest is now 4. “Even my shadow is bigger,” he says. There are crayon-streaked cards, homemade gifts wrapped in the lopsided way that kids perfect, and a morning of singing. Tonight he gets to choose the birthday dinner and, of course, the dessert. In process: Does he know that… Read more
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Morocco – Part 1
I know blog posts are meant to be short and easily digested. However, along with the now-defunct idea of curling up with the Sunday paper, I propose a larger meal…in light of the violence in North Africa this week, here is a happier tale. I adore Morocco – the food, the people, the history. Did… Read more
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In Which the Mother Drinks Beer
Confession #1: I am a lightweight. This means that a beer or a glass of wine is about all I can tolerate (see: horribly embarrassing episode only older brother knows about – thanks for both providing the alcohol AND cleaning up!). I do, however, like a glass now and then, particularly if it’s good Pinot… Read more
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Royal Wedding Dinner…Beer-battered fish, Coleslaw, greens
Oh, Darlings, it’s just so sad not to be in the UK for their 4-day weekend in celebration of the THE wedding. Some former Brit friends have invited me over for a morning party. We’ll be coming from various drop-offs and meetings, so I’m thinking we’ll wear lycra AND hats. Perfect. Tonight I rang up… Read more
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Good Haircut, Bad Year, Good Food
You know you’re at the market too much when the cashier comments on your new haircut. This morning when I ran in for a few sweet potatoes and cheese, Bernadette (yes, I know all their names) complimented me. My hair is now up to my chin. It was semi-impulse, though you might say I’ve been… Read more
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Love Letter to My Soda Stream
Dear SS, It’s late. It’s dark. I’m the only one awake and you’re the only one who knows. I’ve been craving you so much lately – maybe because of the warmer days. Or maybe – maybe – because you embody so much of my longing. You are: eco-friendly, cost-effective, not bad-looking, you taste great and… Read more
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Corn, Feta, and Black Bean Salad
I could eat this all day…my daughter scoops it up by the spoonful. My husband, a newly converted bean-eater, delights in the sweet corn, the feta’s tang. My youngest avoids the feta, my preteen eats as much as he can get his too-big-for-his-body hands on. My 9-year-old becomes Woody Allen. 1st response: This is so… Read more
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Garlic Salmon Hash with Peppers, Potatoes, and Arugula
I am a big believer in breakfast for dinner. A few weeks ago I made a whole week of breakfast-dinners to delight the kids (and go easy on my time and money). Last night, to wind down the vacation week, I took out my trusty skillet to make a healthy, bright hash. I had Jamie… Read more
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Gift Baskets
Custom Gift basket from EMMA’S PANTRY featuring eco-friendly basket, rhubarb syrup for vanilla ice cream, Too Many Cooks: Kitchen Adventures with 1 Mom, 4 Kids, and 102 Recipes by Emily Franklin, Spicy Pickles, Raspberry Jam in French gift jar, Big Family Sized Granola in Custom-Blended Anti-Oxident & Very Vanilla, Triple Berry Jam, Blueberry Pancake Syrup,… Read more
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Passover Potato Gnocchi with Spring Greens
We’re back from a few days of off-season fun on Martha’s Vineyard. We walked in the rain, took the puppy into the cold ocean, looked for shells and seaglass, annoyed siblings in the car, tried to further annoy siblings at dinner/back in the car/at the fudge shop/in front of ye olde houses, made siblings nearly… Read more
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Berries, Glass, Canning
I have always had a thing for glass. Maybe I was a ship in a bottle in a past life. As kids my brothers and I hunted and pecked for sea glass on the Cape – brown like old root beer, soft-edged green, aqua dulled by the salt, and the rare and most-coveted cobalt. We… Read more
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Vegetable Crunch…Meal in a Bowl
I am huge fan of the meal-in-a-bowl. This is not just the lazy parent’s guide to fewer dishes, but because I find it comforting and happy-maing in its simplicity. In winter, a bowl of whole wheat pasta tossed with wilted greens and Bucheron cheese or warmed cannellini beans is my kind of dinner. In summer,… Read more
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Things that Go Crunch in the Night…snacks
I like snacks as much as the next person – as long as the next person isn’t my nine-year-old, Daniel, because he’d win hands down in any snacking competition. “What can I have?” he mutters as he studies the pantry contents. I am an unfair mom which, in this instance, is loosely defined as a… Read more