Tag: meatless monday recipes
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Whole Grain Double Apple Breakfast Cake & Parenting
You know you want this. We have a two snack per day rule in our house (gasp!) and one of those snacks must be fruit (double gasp!). We started this when the kids were very young and now that 3 of the 4 are old enough to be in charge of their own school or… Read more
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Recipes for Rosh Hashanah Part 1 & Faith & Multi-tasking
This morning Will, 4, asks for paper so he can make a book about “Evan the Horse.” He knows no one named Evan nor do we have a horse. The paper comes from my office and the book involves wobbly letters written in no particular order and lots of tape. Julia has a fever and… Read more
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Extra Thick Garlic & Mushroom Soup
Advice and observations from my children: Don’t let other people make you feel bad because most of the time they’re only saying that because they feel bad about it. If you get kicked in the ballsack, it will hurt. Especially if it’s your older brother who does it. Save your candy until the movie starts.… Read more
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Cold Cucumber Soup with Peas & Imagination
4-year-old Will and 12-year-old Jamie and I rode the T into downtown Boston this weekend. The journey, as they say, was the destination. Will loves trains, the slurring scenery, the tickets, the immovable seats, the automatic doors. We exited at the park and went for a ride on the Swan Boats. “There’s a guy on… Read more
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Twice-Cooked Beans with Smoky Paprika Onions & Laziness
Some recipe are borne of genius. Some, like this one, are borne of sheer laziness. What, you’ve never been enamored of Jacobs Cattle beans, their marble-like texture and splotches of brown and white, so taken with them you keep them cloistered away in a jar just to ogle them? Well, I have. And then I… Read more