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I need to cook …

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

… And write – and here I am again a once a week blogger. There’re a lot of things I could blame it on, but I’d rather not.
Last weekend I sent my foster daughter off to camp, so Saturday we went to Old Navy, and got her packed. I made some beef and peapods from [...]

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Winter Time Dinners Alone

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Deborah Madison just did a new book, What We Eat When We Eat Alone. The overall conclusion of the book is that when we eat alone, we don’t have to follow the rules – we can eat what and where we want – standing over the sink, in bed, in front of TV, and we [...]

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Cooking from an empty larder

Monday, February 1, 2010

I’ve been trying to keep the pantry pretty bare, except for buying ingredients for the dinners. It’s been working surprisingly well, except for the times I’ve kinda hung onto a little bit of this or that for too long – like the salad dressing I put on my work lunch salad last Friday. The greens [...]

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Twenty-four people for soup

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Soup, bread and salad for dinner sounded good to 24 grownups and 5 kids under seven, on a frigid night in late January, last Thursday’s dinner. But did I take a single picture? Nope.
I tried to plan things so that people could be as acetic or extravagant in their food choices as they wished – [...]

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