My parents and my brother, Crawford, came to visit this past weekend. My dad was lecturing in Dallas and by luck, my brother had Thursday and Friday off of school. I won’t bore you with the details except the ones relating to food so that when you come to visit me, you can tell me which of these places you…
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2 x 2 (by 2): Cat the Cat Who is That? and Disappearing Desmond
Have you noticed that invariably the book that you think is the dumbest thing on earth is the one that a child cannot stop asking for? I read Cat the Cat Who is That? through once to Ella and planned to return it immediately to the library. She, however, had different plans. She kept pulling it out of the library…
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A Week of Fall Meals
One of the things I’ve loved about the CSA (I know, I know, you’re thinking “will she ever stop talking about the stupid CSA?”) is that we’ve eaten so many fresh meals this summer, that it’s fun to get into fall (or, you know, below 90 degrees) and eat slightly heavier, warmer meals. Hello, crockpot, is basically what I’m saying…
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Make the Bread, Buy the Butter by Jennifer Reese
So. . .I read a lot of food books. I kicked things off a couple of years ago with Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, then three of Michael Pollan’s books, and Food Matters by Mark Bittman. Not to mention many many articles, blog posts, cookbooks, and snippets of books that I don’t really feel like reading in their entirety. And Make the…
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Monkey Baby
We went to a little Halloween party on Saturday evening which gave us an excellent excuse to stuff Ella into her costume early. I was planning to make her a costume, but then I was at Old Navy and this costume was $4.67 and. . . I just bought it. I do not regret this in the slightest. Also, when…
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