Category: vegetarian / vegan
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Deep Dish Raspberry Cornmeal Pudding Cake & Too Darn Hot
Yes, I wrote about deep dish cornbread yesterday. But the bright yellow cornmeal called out to me again and the raspberries are so sweet and plump and let’s be honest: it’s hot as the dickens in the Northeast today. That’s the first time I’ve ever used that expression. This is not the first time I… Read more
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Summer Creamy Onion Soup & Harry Potter
Parenting makes you grow. It makes you love more than you thought possible. It also makes you say sentences that you never thought you’d say. “Because toothbrushes aren’t for vaginas, that’s why.” “Because I’m positive Axl Rose’s name didn’t used to be Steering Wheel Dandelion.” “Because we don’t eat chili from our hands.” And so… Read more
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Garlicky Green Tart with Sunflower Crust & Being Straightforward
4-yr-old: Do you have any gum? Me: No. Ask Daddy. [4-yo goes upstairs, comes back down]: Daddy’s in the shower. he says i can have gum when he gets out. Me: Okay. [4-yr-old considers something]: Can I sleep with gum? Me: that wouldn’t be a good idea. It could get stuck in your hair or… Read more
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Double Apricot Tart (wheat-free, nut-free, gluten-free) & Friendship
By now maybe you know that my family had a rough year [known as The Year of the Shit]. I (still) won’t go into too many details but will share that TYOTS involved death, despair, and something really really bad happening to one of my kids. I had a hard time reaching out. Like many… Read more
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Yoga for Bitches & Coconut Mushrooms with Asparagus
Everyone talks about yoga the way they talk about sex when they finally get good at it or the way a few friends from [insert high school, college, grad school, work, summer] talk about [insert pot, shrooms, Levain chocolate chip cookies, God, Clapton, David Foster Wallace, Princeton]. I tried yoga about a decade ago (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